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In the UK Daily Mirror – just as I had heard, the historical material is backed up with flashbacks<\/a><\/p>\n

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Although the movie closely follows the book’s storyline, Howard delivers something Dan Brown doesn’t – dramatic recreations of events relating to the book’s central inflammatory theory that for 2,000 years the Catholic Church has been covering up the fact that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene and fathered a daughter, whose bloodline has survived into present-day Europe. <\/p>\n

As well as scenes of the Inquisition and of women being tortured, burned and drowned, Howard shows Mary Magdalene fleeing the Holy Land for France and giving birth there. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There’s another link to a review in the Telegraph<\/em> out there, but this is by the same guy – in fact, it’s basically the same review, and it’s longer. <\/p>\n

(Correction: <\/strong>It’s not a review of the whole 2.5 hour film, but rather of 35 minutes or so of it…Thanks Barb! Read comments on this post for Barbara Nicolosi’s ear-on-the-ground report about waht people are saying in Hollywood…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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