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Screenwriter Anthony McCarten on THE TWO POPES – Nell Minow interviews

December 18, 2019 awfj-admin 0 Comments anthony hopkins, anthony mccarten, Fernando Meirelles, jonathan pryce, pope benedict, pope francis, two popes

Sometimes history is made by groups of people in labs or courtrooms or legislative bodies or battlefields. Sometimes history is made by two people talking to each other quietly. We hear those stories less often. It may be that what makes those changes possible is keeping them secret. Perhaps that is what makes imagining them so irresistible. That is what screenwriter Anthony McCarten has done in fact-based films like Bohemian Rhapsody, The Darkest Hour, and his latest, The Two Popes.

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THE TWO POPES – Review by Diane Carson

December 15, 2019December 15, 2019 Diane Carson 0 Comments anthony hopkins, anthony mccarten, jonathan pryce, netflix, two popes

Metaphors comment unobtrusively on a variety of current issues: building bridges not walls, income inequality, tyranny, modest vs. indulgent life styles. These important topics are punctuated with nice touches of humor and music. The Two Popes speaks to everyone who examines, as honestly as possible, the decisions of their lives, whether Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Catholic, Protestant, agnostic, atheist, or anything else.