#how good was Conclave

[klaipeda-witness]

Doing Sisko in the style of an Eastern Orthodox Icon painting because recent events have got me thinking about that type of thing

Details under the cut

[nikolaj-costerwaldau]

Conclave (2024) dir. Edward Berger

[prttynrgnl]

‘i am not ‘social’ the only profile i have is this *traces his nose* and i hold it dearly’

- Sergio Castellitto on having social media profiles

[heph]

"His agent is the one you should avoid."

[grabyourpillow]

Also cannot get over Carlos Diehz(Vincent Benítez)'s acting. The way he radiates inner strength and calm. The genuine curiosity in his eyes when asks looks at Lawrence and asks "why?". The way he portrays someone with a sharp mind, and quiet determination, not because they're full of themselves, but because they simply act in the way they think they should. The childlike-wonder at the world, despite having witnessed its brutality, with its brutality. How did he bring all that to a character that didn't have that many lines on screen??? "who is it you think we're fighting?" Like dammmnnnn did he make every second count

[synchodai]

Conclave's monologue about uncertainty still goes hard. You can only change someone's mind if they are uncertain. You can only be open to a divine, otherworldly experience if you are willing to change your mind and break away from your established worldview. You can only have faith if you have doubt. It's basically a denouncement of dogmatic zealotry as true faith which I think is beautiful and relevant in a world where people are discarding naked truth and reality under the guise of standing up for their beliefs and calling it faith.

[ladyhawke]

CONCLAVE (2024) dir. Edward Berger THE RINGS OF POWER 2.01 “Elven Kings Under the Sky”

[cabinwolf]

Shots before the first appearance of Vincent Benítez and after the last appearance of him. (Conclave, 2024, dir. Edward Berger)

[frostyclove]

conclave viewings about to go way up what do you mean the pope might die while a movie about the aftermath of the pope dying is on an oscar campaign

[imanoddsweetthing]

Vincent went through an ultra conservative phase to overcompensate for being intersex and having undiagnosed PTSD 

[thalassous]

APOSTOLIC SEE IN YOUR AREA ...

... this is to say, i am very very happy to announce to you all that @clubconcrave took me on as a merch artist! specifically, i have fashioned a 51x152.5mm bookmark you can get if you pay $50 USD or more for the just GORGEOUS art and essays everyone contributed. neat, right? :-)

— preorders start 20/01/25.

[iamjessemccartney]

conclave would be fantastic as a muppet movie

[awesome-cookies-and-cream]

Conclave said: when God sings with his creations, will a turtle not be part of the choir?

[per1w1nkl3]

wait was benitez supposed to have surgery to have the "correct' female anatomy in the book?? was he supposed to be (unknowingly) ftm in the intentions of the author or was he still intersex? and is that the reason. the changed it in the movie??

[shedoesntevengohier]

Since apparently there's a topic of vampires, I'm gonna go note down my earlier concept for turning for vampire!Vincent! (Note, this one is drawing on the book, which I have only partially read).

Vincent was turned by the doctor who helped him after the car bomb, in order to save his life - he had otherwise not been going to survive. However, in this version turning is a slow rather than more immediate process - it's started, its happening, it was able to save his life (-well, depending on if one considers vampires to be living, but), but it's going to happen over time, and it'll be a while before it gets to the point of obvious or evident.

But, the rest of their interaction proceeds as in canon - the doctor does tell Vincent about what he's found, and doesn't tell him about what else he's also done. (He does this for two reasons: first, given he's already throwing this one thing at a man who also already just nearly died, he doesn't want to add yet another thing right then. Second, he doesn't really know Vincent so well, and wants to be able to get a better idea of him before he reveals a secret with such ramifications.)

So Vincent - has his dark time, and goes to Rome, and tries to resign, and has his conversation(s) with the Holy Father, and makes plans, and thinks, and prays, and changes some plans, and is starting to come to this greater understanding and acceptance of himself.

And then, when he is back at his home, the doctor comes to talk to him. (Or possibly even he's starting to notice things, starting to not really be able to ignore noticing things, and then the doctor comes to talk to him.) And he has a whole new thing to deal with, and he's going to need to talk to the Holy Father again.

(If I remember correctly, in the book Vincent later says that the doctor who treated him was since killed. In this version that's a cover story, to keep anyone from asking more questions or looking for the doctor, to protect him both in his general (common to vampires) desire to not be known, and about this in particular.)

[conclaveyaoi]

tougher than the rest — giulio sabbadin