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The Two Popes

2019

As scandal rocks the Church, the conservative Pope Benedict XVI and the reform-minded cardinal who will become Pope Francis spar and confide over faith, doubt, and the future, forging an unlikely understanding. Fernando Meirelles's warm, talky drama based on true events.

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A Vatican-set papal succession drama focused on Pope Benedict XVI and the future Pope Francis.

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