Pope Francis: A Man of His Word [video] (2018)
The year’s second-best inspirational documentary about an iconic leader with an ability to connect with people as individuals is still pretty good.
Pope Francis: A Man of His Word: My “Reel Faith” review.
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Pope Francis: A Man of His Word (2018)
Wim Wenders, whose eclectic career has embraced arthouse dramas, documentaries, music videos and concert films, approaches the subject of his latest nonfiction film from an unusual perspective: the significance of an unprecedented papal name.
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“The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth,” Pope Francis writes. “In many parts of the planet, the elderly lament that once beautiful landscapes are now covered with rubbish” (LS 21). From the outset Wall-E looks as if it had been created with these words in mind, projecting them into a dystopian future in which rubbish has expanded to cover the entire planet, even surrounding the Earth in a halo of space debris.
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