As the world mourns the death of Pope Francis, who died early Monday morning at the age of 88, they also await the results of the upcoming conclave, aka the secretive process behind the election of the next pope. And, thanks to Edward Berger’s Oscar-winning 2024 film, Conclave, a lot more people now know how that process works.
Obviously, the Conclave movie is a Hollywood drama, and not a documentary. It’s a mystery-thriller based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Robert Harris, in which Ralph Fiennes stars as a Cardinal who must organize the election of the next pope, after the previous pope dies. In the process, he finds the now-deceased pope was hiding a dark secret (or two!) that involves his potential successors.
That said, though all the Cardinals featured in Conclave are not based on real people, the author of the original 2016 Conclave novel,
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