I decided to give this film ten minutes, assuming I would be bored listening to and watching two old, Catholic men talking… Regardless of whether one or both were the spiritual leader of a billion other Catholics.
It is a brilliant and enjoyable film and there is a lot of subtlety, why it was nominated for 58 awards, winning 11 (none from the Academy). Like a lovely 40MPH drive through the Fall, not too fast, enough time to enjoy, but you still get somewhere.
There are a lot of fancy pens in this movie, but the jotter stands out in the moment where the two men find some common humanity.
Jotter in Film 