Call Me Francesco – the Pope
Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2016
June 2 - 8, 2016
Set amid the life-or-death political turmoil of Argentina’s Dirty War, this unsentimental biopic, starring Rodrigo de la Serna of The Motorcycle Diaries, forgoes hagiography to delve into the darkest chapter of the life of the man the world now knows as Pope Francis.
This unsentimental biopic forgoes hagiography to delve into the darkest chapter of the life of the man the world now knows as Pope Francis. Before he was the leader of the Catholic Church, he was Jorge Mario Bergoglio, a young priest living in Buenos Aires. As he rises through the ranks of the church, Bergoglio (played by The Motorcycle Diaries star Rodrigo de la Serna) finds himself frequently at odds with the brutal military dictatorship that ruled Argentina in the 1970s, a potentially perilous situation that forces him to make some tough moral choices. Told with the verve of a political thriller, Call Me Francesco – the Pope is a humanizing look at the experiences that shaped one of the world’s most influential men.
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