How Pope Francis became a movie star

Through the span of a 50-year profession, Wim Wenders has worked with such worldwide illuminators as Mel Gibson, Alicia Vikander and musical crew U2.

However the German producer saw worldwide acknowledgment on an unheard of level when he acknowledged a welcome from the Vatican to make a film about the Pope.

Joining interviews with the pontiff with film of his movements, Pope Francis: A Man of His Word demonstrates its subject instructing groups of onlookers far more noteworthy than any star could gather.

So did Wenders see any likenesses with a portion of his different colleagues amid the four evenings he went through speaking with His Holiness?

"The Pope has an indistinguishable nearness from a portion of the best film stars I've worked with," says the chief of Paris, Texas, Wings of Desire and Buena Vista Social Club.



https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-44402001

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