"The Young Pope" (The Young Pope, 2016)
Tagline: "His religion is revolution"
What happens when a great director like Paolo Sorrentino conceives a big project that expands beyond a full-length film? It turns out a beautiful series, shot as a film, i.e. not just how to support the plot, but with a beautiful picture, with well-built
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"The Young Pope" (The Young Pope, 2016) Tagline: "His religion is revolution" What happens when a great director like Paolo Sorrentino conceives a big project that expands beyond a full-length film? It turns out a beautiful series, shot as a film, i.e. not just how to support the plot, but with a beautiful picture, with well-built shots, a good soundtrack. In fact, it’s just a very long movie. And good actors play in this film, and for Jude Law, or Law, as we say, this is truly the most outstanding role to date, despite a very solid number of films filmography. The next election of the pope took place, and the cardinals, mired in intrigue and mutual rivalry, chose the young handsome American cardinal of Italian origin Leonard (or as everyone used to call him, Lenny) Belardo as pope. They thought that he would be a comfortable puppet, pulling the strings that each of them hoped. But from his first steps it became clear that Lenny, now Pope Pius XIII, was not what he was expected to be. To the Vatican traditions and way of life refers without any piety, moreover, is not going to observe them, while it does not stretch the trail of any dark stories, so blackmail, what they are often used to doing, it has nothing, he is almost holy. It's not just about faith, it's not just about the church and what it's become -- it's a big business project, it's about whether there's anything that can be changed about it, it's about a dad who's experiencing a crisis of faith, and he's not alone, it's about human weaknesses, human meanness, but kindness, everything is so mixed up in this life and in these strange people who have chosen this field. I will not retell the plot, but for those who love and appreciate Sorrentino, I think it will be nice to meet him in a new role, with which he proved that the series can be shot like a real movie.
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