We Have a Pope

PALME D’OR NOMINEE, CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2011

IN ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Being Pope is (pardon the pun) a hell of a responsibility — and more than the man elected to the post, Cardinal Melville, is ready for. So, he goes on the lam, throwing the Vatican into chaos, in this warmly human satire of church and state, in which “scenes of gently comic melancholy alternate with sequences of gently satirical buffoonery.” (Slant)