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On Conclave.
In our final episode of the year, we debate Edgar Berger's new film about a Papal election, featuring Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci as Cardinals and Isabella Rossellini as a nun.
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Is the film about an alien, abstruse process – the conclave – or is it about something familiar and earthly? Is the film about the sacred or the profane? About temporal or holy power?
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What does it say about process and neutrality, in times of lawfare and contested elections?
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Why is there so much film and TV about the Pope? What is it that appeals today about Papal authority?
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The film features a good liberal, a corrupt moderate, a nasty reactionary, a tainted idpol candiate (a homophobic African) – do these politics matter? Why so crude?
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Is it mere Oscar bait?
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