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‘Conclave’ Review: Ralph Fiennes & Stellar Cast Burn Up The Screen In Superb Papal Thriller That Is One Of Year’s Best
Ralph Fiennes leads a superb ensemble conducting election for a new pope in 'Conclave', a nail-biting papal thriller from Edward Berger.
But now with Conclave, adapted by Peter Straughan from the Robert Harris novel and directed by recent Oscar winner Edward Berger( All Quiet On The Western Front), we have a papal election thriller that rivals anything a political party could dream up. Adding to the impending drama in Conclave is the last-minute arrival of an unknown new Cardinal, a mystery man no one had known about, Benitez (Carlos Diehz in his film debut) of Kabul, who apparently was selected to join the college by the Pope before his sudden death. Malley (Brian F. O’Byrne) is the man in the Vatican basically charged with vetting the emerging candidates to make sure no scandal in any of their backgrounds arises, but that is exactly what happens when he informs Lawrence of a serious problem uncovered with Ayeyemi.
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