Dec 10, 2024 12:50 AM
(This post was last modified: Dec 10, 2024 01:48 AM by C C.)
Supposedly not a satire or a dark comedy, but a straight-cut mystery thriller. Review provided by a magazine that is heavily controversial even to conservatives.
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(review) The next pope as seen through a left wing fever dream
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/reviews/t...ver-dream/
INTRO: Pope Francis is dead. Standing over his lifeless corpse, some of his faithful lieutenants weep as one pronounces sedevacante: the seat is vacant. The Chair of Peter in Rome is temporarily empty, and the call is put out for the world’s cardinals to assemble a conclave to select the next Vicar of Christ.
That opening scene of Conclave is a realistic scenario that will occur some day soon, as Pope Francis turns 88 years old this month. Unfortunately, this beautifully shot and affectingly acted thriller about Vatican politics radically departs from reality soon after its opening shots. Director Edward Berger’s artistic skills are sadly exceeded by his wiles as a propagandist, for Conclave is a blatant and unabashed piece of artistic manipulation that laughably portrays the Catholic Church from the twisted perspective of the progressive left.
The central plot involves the machinations of several factions of right- and left-wing cardinals to get their man the top job. Ralph Fiennes plays the film’s protagonist, Cardinal-Dean Thomas Lawrence, the leader of the conclave and a liberal who conspires to get his extreme left-wing friend Aldo Bellini (Stanley Tucci) elected.
[...] At this point in the film, “radical traditionalist” Catholics—indeed, any kind of conservative—may succumb to belly laughs. Conclave in its first act has made a sharp turn into the realm of farce.
The reality is that, far from being a supermajority, there are no open traditionalists in the College of Cardinals, and none advocating for the end of Vatican II. Indeed, there are scarcely any merely conservative cardinals—the College and the Vatican itself is dominated by liberals... (MORE - missing details)
Conclave (Official Trailer 2) ... https://youtu.be/t915aZmyEBg
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/t915aZmyEBg
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(review) The next pope as seen through a left wing fever dream
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/reviews/t...ver-dream/
INTRO: Pope Francis is dead. Standing over his lifeless corpse, some of his faithful lieutenants weep as one pronounces sedevacante: the seat is vacant. The Chair of Peter in Rome is temporarily empty, and the call is put out for the world’s cardinals to assemble a conclave to select the next Vicar of Christ.
That opening scene of Conclave is a realistic scenario that will occur some day soon, as Pope Francis turns 88 years old this month. Unfortunately, this beautifully shot and affectingly acted thriller about Vatican politics radically departs from reality soon after its opening shots. Director Edward Berger’s artistic skills are sadly exceeded by his wiles as a propagandist, for Conclave is a blatant and unabashed piece of artistic manipulation that laughably portrays the Catholic Church from the twisted perspective of the progressive left.
The central plot involves the machinations of several factions of right- and left-wing cardinals to get their man the top job. Ralph Fiennes plays the film’s protagonist, Cardinal-Dean Thomas Lawrence, the leader of the conclave and a liberal who conspires to get his extreme left-wing friend Aldo Bellini (Stanley Tucci) elected.
[...] At this point in the film, “radical traditionalist” Catholics—indeed, any kind of conservative—may succumb to belly laughs. Conclave in its first act has made a sharp turn into the realm of farce.
The reality is that, far from being a supermajority, there are no open traditionalists in the College of Cardinals, and none advocating for the end of Vatican II. Indeed, there are scarcely any merely conservative cardinals—the College and the Vatican itself is dominated by liberals... (MORE - missing details)
Conclave (Official Trailer 2) ... https://youtu.be/t915aZmyEBg