Review: In ‘The Two Popes,’ Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce are heaven-sent
Among the virtues of “The Two Popes,” a sparkling confection with a serious side, is that, given its prosaic title, its crowd-pleasing attributes come as pretty much of a surprise.
“Inspired by true events,” “The Two Popes” in effect expands on reality, imagining a series of intense conversations over a few days in 2012 between Pope Benedict XVI and Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio , a man who was in many ways his philosophical opposite.
Just as critical but frankly a bit of a surprise is the expert way screenwriter McCarten and director Meirelles, whose sensibilities are not so close on paper, end up complementing each other.Three-time Oscar nominee McCarten is a specialist in stories from real life, including “The Theory of Everything,” and, as his scripts for both “Darkest Hour” and “Bohemian Rhapsody” demonstrate, he sometimes ends up with scenarios that are tidier than is good for them.
Then the locale shifts to a very different arena, the ritualistic color and pageantry of 115 beautifully robed cardinals gathering in Vatican City to engage in a process newscasters call “deeply spiritual but very political,” the election of a new pope after the death of John Paul II. Though he doesn’t expect it, Bergoglio is headed for several days of intense conversations with the pope, taking place first at the pontiff’s Castel Gandolfo summer residence and then at Vatican City, including time spent in the Sistine Chapel .
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