Conclave: How the film sheds light on the secretive way popes are chosen

Conclave: How the film sheds light on the secretive way popes are chosen

The Bafta award-winning film gives viewers a window into a "highly secret and a deeply private process".

'Conclave' author Robert Harris on the secretive tradition of selecting a new pope

Streaming viewership of "Conclave" surged 3,200 percent in the week after Pope Francis’ death. Viewers turned to that movie, which won the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar, to help them understand one of the most secretive elections on the planet. The film is based on the novel by Robert Harris, who joined Geoff Bennett to break down the complicated process of electing the next pontiff.

Between expectation and secrecy, the cardinals of the Church resumed their preparatory meetings to the cclave that is held in a week.

The director of the film "Conclave" Edvard Berger is working on a new film, a thriller that is an adaptation of the novel "Riders" by the Australian author Tim Vinton from 1994.

Ralph Fiennes (Ipswich, 1962), the British actor who owes his third and last nomination to the Oscar to his interpretation of Cardinal Thomas Lawrence in the successful film 'Cóclavela', cannot avoid a smile between benevolent and resigned when asked how he is living the preparations for the election of Pope Francis' successor. "The truth is that when these days I see the images, I think: 'Oh, I have been there'," he explains. Surely, if I hadn'…

Conclave: There is no faith without doubt

Conclave is an award-winning 2024 film directed by Edward Berger, starring Ralph Fiennes as Cardinal Lawrence — a man wracked by doubt but whose job it is to organise a conclave after the death of a progressive pope whose legacy... The post Conclave: There is no faith without doubt appeared first on Where Peter Is.