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Conclave: tight thriller about Vatican power politics chimes with a year of elections

By Jon Hackett, Senior Lecturer in Film and Television, Brunel University of London

A largely faithful adaptation of Robert Harris’s 2016 novel, Edward Berger’s Conclave narrates the election of a new pope after the sudden death of the pontiff.

The film draws on Harris’s research into the obscurities of the papal poll, which was also present in Fernando Meirelles’s quirky 2019 film about Popes Benedict and Francis, The…

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