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TV - The Young Pope

Pauline

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We just finished watching the TV series, The Young Pope, by Paolo Sorrentino, starring Jude Law and Diane Keaton. It was on SKY Atlantic in the UK. It will be on HBO in the US in January.

This series was fantastic. Jude Law was different from anything else I have seen him in. The series is odd, thoughtful, beautifully filmed, intense - I loved it. The Pope costumes were beautiful - and the scenes in the Vatican and St Peter's Square.

From HBO: "Set in present-day Vatican City, The Young Pope follows the turbulent papacy of Lenny Belardo, the Catholic Church’s first American pope—and a polarizing one to boot."

Sorrentino directed the movie The Great Beauty - set in Rome.
 
Thanks Pauline...we will take another look. We watched Episode 1 and haven't returned to it. I have a bad reaction to most Paolo Sorrentino films which I have found to be excessively arty and over the top.
 
I agree - it is totally is over the top, but it's a visual feast. I also love listening to the Italian and trying to pick up words I know.

It seems this way with all HBO shows - but I also love the opening sequence - the graphics, the electric Watchtower song, right down to Jude's wink.
 
I thought this series was superb. Anything that Sorrentino directs is unbelievable. If you haven't already, check out La Grande Bellezza
 

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