The Importance of Pope Francis in enjoying 2024’s Conclave movie
The recent sad death of Pope Francis is sure to lead to many reaching for their Amazon Prime subscriptions to watch Conclave from 2024. It centers on the succession of a new Pope. The cardinal brothers are charged with electing a new Pope in the midst of the death of the previous Pontiff. I know you guessed as much but for posterity… there is the plot. The Two Popes This is a thrilling political journey I’ve not seen since 2019’s The Two Popes which was a bit more interesting in the sense that I was more bought in to the story, it being based on actual events that happened. Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce star as Popes Benedict and Francis. Conclave is interesting though, too, and Pope Francis taking over from another Pope is broadly the same situation, and the politically charged process and result in Conclave is the added sauce in this melting pot of a movie. Spoiler alert — the movie ends with a hermaphrodite as the incoming Pope. Who is...