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Conclave 2024
If you’ve ever been to Rome, odds are you stared up at the Sistine chapel. Conclave states the case that to gaze upon real history in that room, you were looking the wrong way.
Every decade or two (or 33 days, for those in the know), the pope dies, and below Michelangelo’s masterpiece on the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling, cardinals from around the world gather to choose a new one. Conclave intimately depicts that process, along with a fictionalised unravelling of…
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Glengarry Glen Ross 1992
Glengarry Glen Ross is the film equivalent of an isolationist state. Like the US in the 30’s, this film sits quietly in its own corner of the world, watching its own people with no care for the world outside it, and it’s glorious.
The politics of Glengarry, however, are rooted in the bitterly hierarchical nature of society, and the meritocracy that comes with it, but is it a fair, true meritocracy? No. No obviously it’s not, just like society. The…
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Silence 2016
Watching Silence, I found myself listening intently to every word that came from the characters mouths, as if I was a Christian, hearing the last rites spoken to me by a Priest. I didn’t think it was possible to respect Scorsese more than I already did.
The story of two catholic priests who travel to Japan in the 17th century to find a mentor that has disappeared, isn’t a perfect film. Francisco (Adam Driver), albeit well acted, I felt acted…
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