Greenaway (65) announced last month that he is planning to use dramatic lighting, projections and recordings of actors’ voices to transform the 9m-wide depiction of the moment Christ announced that one apostle would betray him into something close to a film. Instead of capturing just one moment, as Da Vinci did, Greenaway will turn The Last Supper into a narrative that stretches from Christ’s birth to his crucifixion, with voice given to each disciple’s thoughts. Unsurprisingly for a film director who served up a dead man at a different kind of dinner party in his 1989 film The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover , Greenaway is courting fresh controversy when his project goes on show in April and May. Greenaway plans to make a sun rise behind Christ’s head and light will fall and rise on the famous hand gestures “to give the notion of a symphony of togetherness”. read more

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