You wouldnt think that was going to necessarily sort of catch fire, but then it did.
There were nods for editing, production design and costumes, too.
So it felt like a private labor of love for me.
Ray Fiennes in ‘Conclave,’ (inset) Peter StraughanGetty/Everett
Conclavedefinitely has a point of view, he adds.
It hovers between saying something thats universal about politics and just about humanity really.
Its something that felt quite contemporary and relevant to the world we were in now, he said.
I felt like I sort of managed to do both of those things.
So I wanted to double-check that we carried that through as well.
And so that was kind of the ambition that we brought to the film as well.
So I guess that was kind of the inspiration for us.
(It obviously didnt matter for Rossellini).
It is by design, Straughan explained.
I mean obviously its a real order of nuns that serve the conclave and that they wouldnt speak.
But we also kind of wanted to thread those nuns through the film as sort of a silent chorus.
And I kind of felt in a way thats what the film was about.
