Conclave: 'These cardinals all have phones, they vape, they smoke'
L-R: Ralph Fiennes as Cardinal Lawrence and Stanley Tucci as Cardinal Bellini in Conclave.
The Pope is dead. Now comes one of the world’s most secretive and ancient events, the papal conclave, in which the Catholic College of Cardinals gather to elect a new pope and begin a new era of the Church.
Not much is known about what goes on behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel when the conclave is in session, but Edward Berger’s film Conclave imagines the tension, bureaucracy, twists and turns that come when the most powerful leaders of the Catholic Church gather to vie for leadership.
