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All About ‘Conclave’

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Conclave has been nominated for 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Production Design, Best Film Editing, and Best Costume Design. One of the most celebrated films of 2024, it grossed over 100 million at the worldwide box office, rare for a drama to perform so well in current years. Directed by Academy Award Winner Edward Berger (All Quiet On The Western Front) and based on the 2016 book by Robert Harris.

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Production Designer Suzie Davies On Juxtaposing Balustrades And Bunkers In ‘Conclave’

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I loved the Casa Santa Marta. Its function was very useful. We didn’t have a lot of space and not much money. It had the longest corridor we could afford. Only one room, but it’s on trucks flat, so they squeeze in and out to create slightly different environments depending on whose room we’re in. I love how well it worked on camera. There’s not much ornamentation on it, it’s pretty simple but the simplicity really worked. The balance between the ornate, beautiful balustrades of the church and then this brutal underground bunker, a hermetically sealed prison was perfect.

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‘Conclave’ Editor Nick Emerson On Creating Tension With Dialogue

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My favorite scene is when Lawrence goes to confront Cardinal Adeyemi about his past and tells him he’s not going to be Pope. In the script, they pray together and then we see Adeyemi making a vote knowing that he’s finished, but we decided to fold them into one another so that the scene ends with Adeyemi asking Lawrence to pray. I just remember looking at this frame of Lawrence saying yes from another room, and I thought that looked like somebody’s point of view.

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Costume Designer Lisy Christl On The Power Of The Color Red in ‘Conclave’

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Red is a very important color in the Catholic Church, to begin with. Edward and I looked at the shade of red the church is using now and thought it wouldn’t work for the film. This was actually our starting point to say, let’s change the color. Let’s also change the fabric to a heavier, woolen fabric, in a red that embraces you. A color can create a distance and the color can draw you in. Red is the color of blood. It’s for love. It’s for fire. It is a very powerful and meaningful color.

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‘Conclave’ Director Edward Berger On The Existential Crisis At The Center Of The Film

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“I think the main reason why I made this movie was to explore Ralph Fiennes’ interior journey where I have a person who’s in that position who says, I have difficulty with prayer. That’s the core of his job. That is the essence of it. It’s like you saying, I have difficulty believing in the words I write or me, I have difficulty in the capability of the camera capturing any truth. It’s kind of like that.”

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