The Two Popes (2019)

The movie is inspired by true events, air centers around Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio (Jonathan Pryce), the soon-to-be elected Pope Francis, and the aging Pope Benedict XVI (Anthony Hopkins). Their ideological and temperamental differences, and the theological debates that spring from them, drive the movie’s action as the leaders spar over the future of 21st-century organized religion. And though much of the movie is fictional, those very real debates have consequences far beyond the cloistered enclave of the Vatican, with the Church’s determinations on issues like appealing to youth in the 21st century and being relevant, celibacy, sexual abuse and the church's role, and the role of women in the Church having ramifications for the lives of the world’s more than one billion Catholics.  This is a series of civil conversations between two men who largely disagree with each other, and is a model for how we might try to problem solve serious issues that face us nationally and as a planet, but thus far has completely eluded us at every level.