Films This Week 3/26/21

by Gary Palmucci | 26th March 2021 | Gary's Corner

Hello everyone. With our three multiple Oscar nominees, Minari, Another Round, and Collective, still attracting plenty of attention, we’re adding one new documentary this week.

Francesco is a portrait of Pope Francis and his seemingly non-stop recent travels to every troubled corner of the globe. Director Evgeny Afineevsky was a 2016 Oscar nominee for his Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom.

While this is a more straightforward portrait of the current pontiff than the feature film The Two Popes or Wim Wenders’ doc A Man of His Word, it contains at least one indisputably historic moment  showing on screen for the first time Pope Francis’ 2019 public endorsement of same-sex unions, as well as his relentless focus on other key issues like climate change, immigration, genocide, clergy sexual abuse and more detail on his role during the tragic Argentine junta period of the 1970s.

Happy holidays, and happy viewing.

Gary Palmucci, Film Curator
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