2019 · drama · history
The Two Popes
Directed by Fernando Meirelles2h 5m2019
Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and self-doubt, the introspective Pope Benedict summons his harshest critic and future successor to Rome to reveal a secret that would shake the foundations of the Catholic Church.
Our read: The Two Popes (2019) reads as a warm, measured, grounded drama · history entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, measured, gentle drama / history, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- warm
- measured
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
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