CONCLAVE, the Ralph Fiennes film where he plays a tortured cardinal with Ralph Fiennes face

Fiennes is def a lock for a nom, but Brody prob the front-runner for the win. Anyway, good movie. I had fun.

Sergio Castellitto got aged quite nicely.

This was quietly my favorite movie of 2024

(Granted, there’s still a lot I haven’t seen yet - in particular need to see Anora and Sing-Sing)

well its your favourite 2024-in-2024 at least, they cant take that from it

you've all got me absolutely intrigued now, going to watch this tonight

holy fuck! this has Isabella Rossellini playing a top nun.. wtf man! why have I not busted a gut to watch this much earlier!

Yeah starting later , yall convinced me

"creation in pectore"

love this shit!

nice. looking forward to the review now!

Yeah same here!

was expecting this to be some sub ttoi/death of stalin styled project with the now customary overcooked zings and so forth. It wasn't that at all, thank fuck. It was actually very good!

When we went to see the Garfield Movie the theater played the trailer for Conclave.

Delighted you liked it calz

SIMONY

https://i.imgur.com/Y8Y84Ps.gif

yeah, the absolute evil that is Simony!

hey they got capone on tax evasion

The vaping cardinal is going to be an intrusive memory that makes me laugh at inappropriate moments for a long time.

It amused me that the bad cardinal was a ringer for Elvis Costello

i thought jean reno at times

saw it last night. was expecting the bitchy gossiping from the online chatter, but wasn't expecting how beautiful some of the shots were, or how hard that final twist would hit. the music was great too.

also love how the movie establishes lithgow's character as a prissy twit in the first scene, before we're given any real reasons to hate him

When has he not played a prissy twit?

Cliffhanger?

even then there's an air of a man who had gotten the wrong end of the stick and had signed up for cliffhanger abbey

Watching this movie made me realize that I'm guilty of simony. I have bought Catholic Church relics from a NY purveyor. They are beautiful and meaningful to me. Many came in lockets, a few in monstrances, and one was mounted in a beautiful frame. I have lived with them, contemplated them and displayed them, but now as I'm getting older I don't know who to gift them to. I have a friend who is also interested in them, but I'm not sure he wants mine.

What do you do with stolen Catholic Church relics you bought that you want to pass on?

I bet none of you have ever had this experience

I loved the outcome of this film by the way, it was perfect.

Relics? like you have a digit of a saint's index finger?

No, just a very tiny piece of cloth or paper or wood presented in an elaborate frame of some sort

But I think these are the kind of relics that are placed under the altar in many Catholic Churches.

I’ll give you $100 for the foreskin of Jesus.

The difficulty with buying items from a dealer who represents them as stolen is the lack of provenance. Your relics could be consecrated or they could be fakes. Unless there's some evidence to establish where they came from no church could accept them as objects of veneration. That would be idolatrous! So, you're most likely stuck with trying to re-establish their authenticity on your own dime, or just disposing of them as profane objects, even if they are truly holy relics.

Boy, are you in trouble!

I like my foreskin fried with a mojo dressing.

Your relics could be consecrated or they could be fakes

A perennial problem with relics iirc

a perennial problrm with perineum relics

Our saints’ taints will make you faint.

this movie was zzz
Even lithgow couldn’t break through the gloom
I don’t think you can count what fiennes did in this as acting
Ending vote implausible

^^good reminder to leave positive reviews here every now and then.

This was good. Love a page turner on the big screen. I could have done with a bit more development of Fiennes faith/doubt, but this was more realistic. Photocopying as a plot point never misses.

counterpoint: the firm

i really enjoyed this! cinematopgraphy an absolute feast for the eyes, and it played out as nice popey potboiler

such a good cast

i like when a movie is just a good movie, yknow?

*****
"A nice popey potboiler"
VegemiteGrrl, ILX

lol

popeboiler imo

v good

il papillon

How the FUCK was Conclave not nominated for cinematography

Because it's less the cinematography, and more the art direction. (Reproducing the Vatican inner rooms, and dressing the cardinals in multiple subtle variations of red = major eye candy.)

So this was to some degree a mystery, and by the time the final plot twists unfolded I was amused to realize the late Pope was enough of a chessmaster to neutralize the two leading papal candidates in advance, and keep Lawrence in place to see that they were neutralized.

Thanks for the hidden text. There's a DVD copy of this waiting for me at the public library. Even though I've told my wife this should be better than any of the other dead pope movies we've seen, she remains skeptical.

also love how the movie establishes lithgow's character as a prissy twit in the first scene, before we're given any real reasons to hate him

― voodoo chili, Thursday, January 2, 2025 1:29 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

Lithgow has just been announced to play Dumbledore in the TV remake of Harry Potter. All indications are that this will be a general shitshow, but the character does require a certain darkness. (To be distinguished from prissiness or twittiness.)

i shall pretend the harry potter remake never took place

Lithgow has just been announced to play Dumbledore

He has not; he has been said to be sought and considering.

Lithgow has just been announced to play Dumbledore

He has not; he has been said to be sought and considering.

Fine fine, "shortlisted."

privately he says that he will take it if only to stop stanley tucci getting it

Then an intersex actor is cast and JKR passes due to a sudden conniption.

they shd rename the vatican BIG FATHER HOUSE

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/logopedia/images/e/ee/Big_Brother_2007.png

Time to remake fiction as documentary

Pope Idol