Writers: Nanni Moretti, Francesco Piccolo
Stars: Michel Piccoli, Nanni Moretti and Jerzy Stuhr
Release Date: 15 April 2011 (Italy)
Language: Italian , German , Latin , English , Spanish , Polish , French
DownLoad Link : Torrent - isohunt(MG/GB) For Watching
Story O f The Movie : At the Vatican, following the demise of the Pope, the conclave to elect his successor settles on Cardinal Melville. But the faithful gathered in St Peter's Square wait in vain for the new Pope to step out on the balcony. What is going on? Behind the thick walls of the Vatican panic has set in. After uttering a terrible howl of fear, the Cardinal refuses the office. The officials do everything to try to reason with Melville, including a psychoanalyst, appointed by the Vatican... Do we really have a Pope?
Viewer's Opinion : The ancient and mysterious ceremonies, the arcane rituals and vestments, hell, just the sheer weirdness of the Catholic church make it intriguing enough for writers and filmmakers to go back to time and again, but only usually as an ingredient or a backdrop in tales of good against evil. Things are more down-to-earth in Habemus Papam: we are witnesses to all of the procedures in the papal conclave electing a new pope, and, robes and rituals aside, this film normalises not just the process, but the cardinals and everyone else involved at the top of the Catholic Church.
This it does by using gentle, but cheekily irreverent humour. And although the cardinals occasionally come across as overgrown schoolboys, at least
Cute, funny, satirical, heart-felt about a bunch of old white men stuck in a room together while another old white man has a severe anxiety attack and tries to figure out what it all means. It's hard to watch it without thinking what, if any, intentions the filmmakers had in satirizing the rotten heart of the Catholic Church at the moment, since it never does go down that road. Not sure what is not being said in a film that deals with a man utterly horrified that he has been selected by his peers to be the embodiment of an institution that in the real world is now beset with scandal and cover-ups that question the very nature of its---
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