US EditionPope Leo XIV celebrates cinema with Hollywood stars and urges inclusion of marginal voices
- On Nov. 15, Pope Leo XIV welcomed Spike Lee, Cate Blanchett and Greta Gerwig to the Apostolic Palace, Vatican City, urging filmmakers to include marginal voices and make film accessible to all.
- Organized by the Vatican's culture ministry, the encounter follows similar audiences Pope Francis held in recent years and included a guest list assembled in the last three months with help from Martin Scorsese.
- The guest list mixed Hollywood names with Monica Bellucci and Italian and international directors, while organizers said Leo spent nearly an hour greeting participants and overcame agents' skepticism.
- Leo warned that cinemas face decline and urged cultural and film institutions to cooperate in affirming the social and cultural value of movie theaters, while speakers said he framed film as including marginalized voices and reconnecting filmmakers and audiences.
- The pope's American background adds meaning to his Nov. 11 video release of four favorite films, continuing his meetings with Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Hollywood stars like Cate Blanchett and Spike Lee, but also Italian cinema figures such as Monica Bellucci, were received by Pope Leo XIV in a meeting organized by Tolentino Mendonça.
American film director Spike Lee brought a New York Knicks jersey as a gift.
Pope Leo XIV hosted a number of film stars in an audience at the Vatican, urging the assembled actors and directors, including Cate Blanchett, Viggo Mortensen, Monica Bellucci and Spike Lee, to continue their work as "pilgrims of the imagination" and thereby help bring hope, foreign news agencies report.
Monica Bellucci and Cate Blanchett met with Pope Leo at the Vatican. For this special meeting, the big movie stars chose simple and elegant styles. Pope Leo, in the Vatican, hosted some of the most famous film creators in the audience. Among the guests were the divas of the cinema Cate Blanchett and Monica Bellucci, as well as the famous director Spike Lee. The two ladies chose special outfits, in accordance with the fashion rules of the Holy Se…
Vatican City. Pope Leo XIV received about 200 film professionals in the Vatican yesterday, including actors Cate Blanchett, Viggo Mortensen and Monica Belluci, where he described the seventh art as a “laboratory of hope.”
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