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Quite by luck on Monday I was invited to a screening with a Q&A afterwards with Edward Berger (Director); Nick Emerson (Editor); Lisy Christl (Costume Designer); Suzie Davies (Production Designer); Volker Bertelmann (Composer); Ben Baird, C.A.S (Sound Designer and Re-Recording Mixer); Nina Gold (Casting) and Martin Ware (Casting)...I am usually quite sceptical of these things but was interesting, especially the sound design, the breathing and the clothing -- they refused to use costumes from the Young Pope as they looked cheap, also about the coffee machines and the photocopier...I liked it more than the book.

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I enjoyed the film a lot, even if I thought its presentation of Vatican politics as metaphor for politics more broadly meant something was lost in terms of understanding religion and faith as a thing in and of itself, with its own intellectual dynamics

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Yeah, it was really good, I enjoyed it a lot. But I liked the Young Pope too, or the first series anyway, the second I gave up on, apparently Berger is now doing a film about gambling in Macau

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