The Two Popes (2019)
Country: GB/IT/ARG/US
Technical: col 125m
Director: Fernando Meirelles
Cast: Jonathan Pryce, Anthony Hopkins, Juan Minujín
Synopsis:
An Argentine cardinal journeys to Rome to ask the Pope to accept his resignation, but is startled to discover that his ideological enemy wishes to give up the throne of St Peter so that he himself might be elected as his successor.
Review:
The true story of how Joseph Ratzinger retired from the papacy to be succeeded by Jorge Bergoglio begins with a disconcerting mix of dramatised and actuality footage. However, once settled down it develops into an absorbing and revealing story of two men exorcising their demons and putting on humility. Hopkins delivers an on par performance, with rather too many 'Hm?'s and pauses, but Pryce does his best work yet, and not only for those scenes in which he speaks Spanish.
Country: GB/IT/ARG/US
Technical: col 125m
Director: Fernando Meirelles
Cast: Jonathan Pryce, Anthony Hopkins, Juan Minujín
Synopsis:
An Argentine cardinal journeys to Rome to ask the Pope to accept his resignation, but is startled to discover that his ideological enemy wishes to give up the throne of St Peter so that he himself might be elected as his successor.
Review:
The true story of how Joseph Ratzinger retired from the papacy to be succeeded by Jorge Bergoglio begins with a disconcerting mix of dramatised and actuality footage. However, once settled down it develops into an absorbing and revealing story of two men exorcising their demons and putting on humility. Hopkins delivers an on par performance, with rather too many 'Hm?'s and pauses, but Pryce does his best work yet, and not only for those scenes in which he speaks Spanish.
Country: GB/IT/ARG/US
Technical: col 125m
Director: Fernando Meirelles
Cast: Jonathan Pryce, Anthony Hopkins, Juan Minujín
Synopsis:
An Argentine cardinal journeys to Rome to ask the Pope to accept his resignation, but is startled to discover that his ideological enemy wishes to give up the throne of St Peter so that he himself might be elected as his successor.
Review:
The true story of how Joseph Ratzinger retired from the papacy to be succeeded by Jorge Bergoglio begins with a disconcerting mix of dramatised and actuality footage. However, once settled down it develops into an absorbing and revealing story of two men exorcising their demons and putting on humility. Hopkins delivers an on par performance, with rather too many 'Hm?'s and pauses, but Pryce does his best work yet, and not only for those scenes in which he speaks Spanish.