Saturday, October 19, 2019

The Two Popes



I know nothing about it. All I saw was the trailer. It looks sort of lavish. It's about old people which might be refreshing, but it looks like it has an all-male cast. IMDb.com shows that it has two women, one who appears uncredited as a nameless journalist. There's a stunt coordinator and four stuntmen one of whom does "fire stunts". I can't imagine what they were needed for.

Might make a good double feature with We Have a Pope, aka Habemus Papam. They elect a new pope, but before the guy can step out on the balcony, he has a panic attack and runs screaming through the Vatican. The cardinals can't leave until the new Pope is presented to the world, so there are scenes of all these elderly virgins sitting alone in their rooms playing solitaire and doing jigsaw puzzles.

They elect the guy by a two-thirds majority, but once they vote him in, they act like he was chosen by God and they can't get rid of him even when it's clear they've made a terrible mistake.

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