Thanks for the great review Jack. I saw it Friday morning and agree with every word. This is what I wrote on Threads when I came out of the theater: "That was brilliant. Best film of the year. Fiennes will win the Oscar. I'm calling it here. Truly engrossing. Great acting all the way around. Terrific script. Fantastic set and costume detail. Very thought provoking. See it if you can." The ending has definitely already ruffled some feathers, but it worked for me too.
Thanks for the review. I'm a Catholic in my 40's and I saw it with my Catholic mother who is in her 70's and it we really enjoyed the movie. We immigrated to Canada from El Salvador. I'm a physician. So in real life we've interacted with catholic that are represented by each of the different candidates for pope, and the nuns, in the movie. This I think made us appreciated the political machinations even more. The ending though I felt a little rushed. I can already seen Ryan George making pitch meeting video where he says: and in the end it's revealed that the new pope .... Wow it's going to be really hard for him to be pope after that reveal... No, super easy, barely an inconvenience. See he says that the last pope was fine with this, so it's all good. Since it's what was going to be the most controversial aspect from the book, I feel it needed more time to explore the issue, if it was going to be included.
I saw this movie on Saturday then took my husband back on Monday to see it again. Liked it every bit as much on the second watch. I agree with you on every point. Great review by you. Breathless at times. Regarding the music, Hitchcock said the Psycho music added 34% of the dramatic impact. This music was its own character. I appreciated the score as it went from background to foreground. Then to background. I appreciated the ambiguous ending. What Catholic or Christian or human being could argue with the last comment by the new pope, “This is how God made me.” I hope it sweeps the Oscars and encourages quality movies to be made. Julie Schap
Thanks so much for your interesting and professional review. I saw the movie and agree with you. I am a practicing Catholic as well. Hope that Ralph Fiennes finally gets his Best Actor Oscar!
Fiennes deserves the Oscar Tucci best supporting Acting and production was excellent all the way around Downside is the “twist” which took away from an otherwise excellent film.
"Conclave" was a wonderful film, the surprising feel-good movie of the year! I must say, though, if it represents the Sacred College of Cardinals accurately, they are in need of some guidance regarding not backstabbing their colleagues and making voting decisions based on what they know of the candidates and not hearsay. Maybe they could learn something from the Baha'is.
Thanks for the great review Jack. I saw it Friday morning and agree with every word. This is what I wrote on Threads when I came out of the theater: "That was brilliant. Best film of the year. Fiennes will win the Oscar. I'm calling it here. Truly engrossing. Great acting all the way around. Terrific script. Fantastic set and costume detail. Very thought provoking. See it if you can." The ending has definitely already ruffled some feathers, but it worked for me too.
Thank you for the kind words! I agree with everything you said in your review as well! I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for the review. I'm a Catholic in my 40's and I saw it with my Catholic mother who is in her 70's and it we really enjoyed the movie. We immigrated to Canada from El Salvador. I'm a physician. So in real life we've interacted with catholic that are represented by each of the different candidates for pope, and the nuns, in the movie. This I think made us appreciated the political machinations even more. The ending though I felt a little rushed. I can already seen Ryan George making pitch meeting video where he says: and in the end it's revealed that the new pope .... Wow it's going to be really hard for him to be pope after that reveal... No, super easy, barely an inconvenience. See he says that the last pope was fine with this, so it's all good. Since it's what was going to be the most controversial aspect from the book, I feel it needed more time to explore the issue, if it was going to be included.
I really appreciate your thoughts! I can understand the rushed feeling of the ending but I'm glad you enjoyed the film overall!
I saw this movie on Saturday then took my husband back on Monday to see it again.
Liked it every bit as much on the second watch.
I agree with you on every point. Great review by you. Breathless at times.
Regarding the music, Hitchcock said the Psycho music added 34% of the dramatic impact.
This music was its own character.
I appreciated the score as it went from background to foreground. Then to background.
I appreciated the ambiguous ending.
What Catholic or Christian or human being could argue with the last comment by the new pope, “This is how God made me.”
I hope it sweeps the Oscars and encourages quality movies to be made.
Julie Schap
I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thanks so much for watching!
Thanks so much for your interesting and professional review. I saw the movie and agree with you. I am a practicing Catholic as well. Hope that Ralph Fiennes finally gets his Best Actor Oscar!
I really appreciate those kind words. Thank you so much!
Fiennes deserves the Oscar
Tucci best supporting
Acting and production was excellent all the way around
Downside is the “twist” which took away from an otherwise excellent film.
I'm glad you enjoyed it overall!
Great review ❤
"Conclave" was a wonderful film, the surprising feel-good movie of the year! I must say, though, if it represents the Sacred College of Cardinals accurately, they are in need of some guidance regarding not backstabbing their colleagues and making voting decisions based on what they know of the candidates and not hearsay. Maybe they could learn something from the Baha'is.
Definitely getting hyped for this one. Hearing great stuff.
I hope you enjoy it!
Loved this movie, and the ending? The process worked perfectly, as it should.
I'm so glad you liked it!
I literally can’t wait to watch it
It’s a good one! I hope you enjoy!
Religion is politics
Awful film