Based on Robert Harris’ airport novel of the same name, Edward Berger’s elegant and absorbing Conclave is Dad Cinema™ at its finest. Its premise is rather straightforward: a cardinal experiencing a crisis of faith is tasked with managing the ancient ritual of electing a new pope. Rather quickly, however, Conclave reveals itself to be not so much a film about the Vatican as it is a parable about the failure of traditionalism to uphold the purported functions of the archaic…
Anatomy of a Fall begins in a remote mountain chalet near Grenoble, that’s home to writer and teacher Samuel Maleski (Samuel Theis), his wife, author Sandra Voyter (Sandra Hüller) and their 11-year-old son, Daniel (Milo Machado Graner). They are being visited by Zoé Solidor (Camille Rutherford), a graduate student who is conducting research for her thesis and has scheduled an interview with Sandra. The latter has recently published a book whose subject matter is said to hit close to…
You guys weren’t kidding, all of Kiera Knightley’s scenes are basically just her doing this whenever the movie isn’t trying to convince us that she’s in love with some guy named Joe
Also—definitely not the point, but I just know Jess and Tony’s lavender wedding celebration would ROCK—gay people have the best taste in music and the soundtrack to this movie was lit
Listen I know that every white, gen z woman in America with even a ing interest in film has seen this movie and been like, “she’s literally me,” but she really is literally me. Like I’m not jewish and I don’t have a sugar daddy, but other than that the degree to which I related to this on a second watch (for reasons I won’t be sharing) is actually sad and embarrassing
ANYWAY this movie has such a murderer’s row…
