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Peter Bart: Indies Put Their Faith In Older Demos For Serious Fare Like ‘Conclave’
The impact of Conclave at theaters again raises the question of whether serious adult fare can again command a strong market niche, Peter Bart writes.
Directed by Edward Berger ( All Quiet on the Western Front), a regally robed cardinal, Ralph Fiennes, struggles to sustain calm in the face of sexual and political challenges raised by Stanley Tucci and John Lithgow, among others. Conclave must now compete with sexier brands like Terrifier, Venom or Heretic and, with awards season at hand, a younger audience may also be drawn to the sexy Cannes winner Anora, or Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain. The audience of that moment had to confront a succession of apocalyptic events: chaos in political parties, assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr, and the abrupt resignation of Golda Meir.
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