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Isabella Rossellini in Conclave

What a joke of a nomination. 15 minutes of glowering and an arch and silly final mic drop. She will probably win because of David Lynch. Put her in a category with Alison Janney and Laura Dern for riding one note characters (cunts, in their case) all the way to the stage.

I liked the film for what it was but Robert Harris is a fancy schlockmeister, and this film wanted to be sillier than it was. Ralph Fiennes did yeomans work to keep it going through endless shots of him sitting hunched and perturbed, staring the middle distance. His nomination is well deserved.

The grating music and frankly stupid scenes - let’s gossip about our rivals in an echoey staircase! No one will hear that! - reminded me of the imposter Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy film and yes, Tomas Alfredson was an executive producer.

by Anonymousreply 75May 5, 2025 1:56 PM

Nepotism explains this waste of a nomination. Yeah Allison Janney winning for a bad SNL skit and Laura Dern winning for a cringeworthy Renata Klein monologue are some of the worst BSA wins.

by Anonymousreply 1January 25, 2025 9:54 AM

Tell us how you really feel, OP.

by Anonymousreply 2January 25, 2025 10:06 AM

OP and r1 are white trash.

by Anonymousreply 3January 25, 2025 10:33 AM

Wow, what flew up YOUR ass and died, OP?

by Anonymousreply 4January 25, 2025 2:54 PM

Well, Op... Dame Judi Dench's screen time in the movie that won her an Academy Award was 5 minutes and 52 seconds. This was for her role as Queen Elizabeth I in the 1998 film Shakespeare in Love. Go Isabella!!!

by Anonymousreply 5January 25, 2025 2:57 PM

I'm very fond of Ralph Fiennes and I can only hope they nominated him because he was so often overlooked in other work. I though Conclave was a shit mess. I don't think it deserved any nominations. It's one of those movies they should release in February or March when no one gives a shit.

by Anonymousreply 6January 25, 2025 3:01 PM

the movie sounds cheesy.

by Anonymousreply 7January 25, 2025 3:03 PM

[quote]Well, Op... Dame Judi Dench's screen time in the movie that won her an Academy Award was 5 minutes and 52 seconds.

All that time? That was like an eternity!

by Anonymousreply 8January 25, 2025 3:46 PM

[quote] Well, Op... Dame Judi Dench's screen time in the movie that won her an Academy Award was 5 minutes and 52 seconds. This was for her role as Queen Elizabeth I in the 1998 film Shakespeare in Love

What’s your point? Judi’s performance wasn’t any better.

by Anonymousreply 9January 25, 2025 6:05 PM

I do like her, and all through the movie I was eagerly anticipating her big “here’s-why-she’s-getting-Oscar-buzz” scene. And then the movie ended.

by Anonymousreply 10January 25, 2025 6:11 PM

She did almost NOTHING in this movie Conclave. I am bewildered by this nomination.

by Anonymousreply 11January 28, 2025 5:06 PM

Judi Dench won an Oscar for a performance that was 5 mins long.

by Anonymousreply 12January 28, 2025 5:11 PM

Well maybe Dench did something in those 5 minutes. Rossellini operated a photocopier and hesitated to turn a door handle.

by Anonymousreply 13January 28, 2025 5:12 PM

Dench won because she was passed over the previous year for Helen Hunt.

I thought this was well known.

by Anonymousreply 14January 28, 2025 6:13 PM

It’s a career nomination.

I was skeptical that she would even get it. After I saw the film I was also disappointed that she didn’t have much to do.

by Anonymousreply 15January 28, 2025 6:15 PM

She is GREAT at grimacing throughout

by Anonymousreply 16January 28, 2025 7:19 PM

Well if she wants a career oscar why doesn't she get off her large rear and star in a movie. This looks like she was on set for half a day.

by Anonymousreply 17January 28, 2025 7:20 PM

I was describing her role to a friend, stating she doesn't say much...

My friend interrupted and said--Let me guess, at a pivotal moment she suddenly speaks up, revealing a secret that changes the direction of the movie!

Yup

by Anonymousreply 18January 28, 2025 7:20 PM

Isabella Rossellini is Hollywood royalty by virtue of her mother being Ingrid Bergman, one of the greatest, most incandescently beautiful stars of classic Hollywood. And when Bergman was demonized by tiny conservative minds and hearts in America, she continued to go her own way, continued to live her life until the U.S. came to its senses and realized they had missed her terribly. Ingrid Bergman didn’t always live her life intelligently, but she lived and worked and fucked and died on her own terms.

When young, Isabella was a breathtakingly beautiful, darker version of her mother, and directors (like Scorsese, Lynch) who would have killed to work with (or just fuck ) her mother, became enchanted by her. There are worse things in the world than a beautiful woman becoming a muse to great artists. But she never restricted herself to that. She has lived her life as independently as her mother did, doing interesting work and becoming, over decades, an excellent actress. And she is allowing herself to age normally, showing that beauty comes from within, revealing a warm, generous and charming personality. She’s grown into a very cool and interesting woman of many parts, there is nothing cookie cutter about her, nothing Hollywoodized, though she has always been very happy to work and live there.

“Conclave” is not her finest hour, it doesn ‘t use her as extensively as it might have, but I for one am glad that academy members in the actor’s branch admire her enough to make this gesture. And her touching and gracious reaction to the nomination makes me doubly glad she was honored this way. I’m sure she understands the symbolism of the nomination, and she likely doesn’t expect to win. So relax.

by Anonymousreply 19January 28, 2025 7:37 PM

Isabella was terrific in Conclave.

by Anonymousreply 20January 28, 2025 10:58 PM

Fuck her and her mother.

by Anonymousreply 21January 28, 2025 11:01 PM

Jamie, your mother couldn't hold a candle to Bergman and you aren't half the beauty or actress that Isabella is.

by Anonymousreply 22January 29, 2025 3:09 AM

While her nomination isn't Karla Sofia Gascon level awful, it's still pretty bad.

by Anonymousreply 23January 29, 2025 3:21 AM

Just finished Conclave. It was an extremely mediocre film. Vote, scandal, vote, scandal, vote, bomb, vote, WTF. Fiennes' character has a crisis of faith that's never explored. Former pope up to some interesting shenanigans, never explored. Isabella involved in said shenanigans, never explored. An extremely overrated film, and one that could have been interesting.

by Anonymousreply 24January 29, 2025 3:49 AM

I like her but agree the nomination was not deserved for this thin role.

by Anonymousreply 25January 29, 2025 4:44 AM

She was great in the film but the film was stupid. It could have been filled with so much more intrigue and drama

by Anonymousreply 26January 29, 2025 4:49 PM

Wasn't she married or dating Scorcese for a while? Whatever. I don't think she deserved her Oscar nomination. Juliette Binoche, OTOH, has been doing some very edgy very compelling work lately.

by Anonymousreply 27January 30, 2025 2:04 AM

glenn close shoulda been nominated instead

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by Anonymousreply 28May 2, 2025 5:54 PM

Izzy acted with her eyes. then, she had her solo speech. it was SO compelling. (Not)

I read about her and she is a lovely interesting person. Getting nominated was sufficient unto itself..

by Anonymousreply 29May 2, 2025 8:31 PM

She was the best fucking thing about the film

by Anonymousreply 30May 2, 2025 8:41 PM

Beatrice Straight gave a hell of a five minutes though.

And she was also quite wonderful in “Poltergeist”.

by Anonymousreply 31May 2, 2025 9:13 PM

R27, I never heard about Scorsese but she was in a relationship with David Lynch for a few years.

by Anonymousreply 32May 2, 2025 9:14 PM

Laurie Metcalf should have won for Lady Bird or Mary J Blige for Mudbound.

Janney's done variations of that role throughout her career.

by Anonymousreply 33May 2, 2025 9:26 PM

She was wonderful in this film. There was not one second when she was onscreen that did not belong to her.

by Anonymousreply 34May 2, 2025 9:31 PM

I watched “Gaslight” recently and she and her mom sounded exactly alike.

by Anonymousreply 35May 2, 2025 9:53 PM

Anybody know where Isabella lives? Some of her photos on Instagram suggest she lives on a farm like area in the Northeast. Well at least one of her homes if she has more than one.

by Anonymousreply 36May 2, 2025 9:55 PM

Finally watched Conclave nd totally agree with OP. IR was so so undeserving of this nom

by Anonymousreply 37May 2, 2025 10:23 PM

r36 A 28-acre farm called "Mama Farm" in Brookhaven, Long Island, which also operates as a bed and breakfast. Has a pied-à-terre in Lincoln Square as well.

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by Anonymousreply 38May 3, 2025 3:21 AM

When she shouted "Eminenze!" in that super deep voice of hers, I came a little.

by Anonymousreply 39May 3, 2025 4:12 AM

It's on Prime but I haven't felt compelled to watch even though I like Ralph Fiennes.

by Anonymousreply 40May 3, 2025 4:19 AM

Well, compel yourself, whore. It's good old entertainment; nothing more, nothing less. Timely, too.

by Anonymousreply 41May 3, 2025 4:55 AM

I will watch anything with Ralph Fiennes. Anything. His acting is sublime Add Stanley Tucci and John Lithgow and you got a trifecta of perfection.

by Anonymousreply 42May 3, 2025 2:18 PM

Are you the same idiot who's complaining about Patrick Schwarzenegger 'having no shame' for wanting the role of Patrick Bateman in the remake of American Psycho adaptation. Do you even know good acting when you see it?

by Anonymousreply 43May 3, 2025 3:57 PM

R19 That post was longer than her role in the movie.

by Anonymousreply 44May 3, 2025 4:22 PM

So may people raved to me about this movie. I sat here for an hour waiting for something to happen. Finally, a few things happened, but they weren't as interesting as I thought they would be. The ending wasn't satisfying, and when a movie makes you wait two hours for an unsatisfying (even, dare I say it? Stupid) ending...oh, and nobody who told me they loved it was a Catholic, and I am.

by Anonymousreply 45May 3, 2025 4:28 PM

R45 Just want until the anti-climax of the real event happening next week!

by Anonymousreply 46May 3, 2025 4:33 PM

I didn't care if Isabella R.'s role was short, but it wasn't even memorable.

by Anonymousreply 47May 3, 2025 4:39 PM

Some nun has absolute access to ALL the personal expense, travel, and activity records of the Curia and international church leaders?

Ha!

by Anonymousreply 48May 3, 2025 4:45 PM

R48 Your Eminence

Google : Drama vs Documentary

by Anonymousreply 49May 3, 2025 10:53 PM

wondered if isabella overstepped her jurisdiction

but then i remembered meryl in 'doubt’

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by Anonymousreply 50May 4, 2025 2:27 AM

Why be so mean to her? She's a fun, cool old lady, only seven years older than I. I wish there were more like her

by Anonymousreply 51May 4, 2025 2:55 AM

Right on, R51.

by Anonymousreply 52May 4, 2025 3:00 AM

Conclave was boring AF

by Anonymousreply 53May 4, 2025 3:00 AM

The character didn't do anything major for it to have been truly important to have her in the story. It seems like they just needed a female character.

by Anonymousreply 54May 4, 2025 3:06 AM

I liked the set design.

by Anonymousreply 55May 4, 2025 3:22 AM

R51 There are more like her, she has a twin sister.

by Anonymousreply 56May 4, 2025 3:25 AM

Good then r56

by Anonymousreply 57May 4, 2025 3:35 AM

What the hell kind of answer is that?

by Anonymousreply 58May 4, 2025 3:39 AM

She was nominated after being criminally overlooked for Death Becomes Her.

by Anonymousreply 59May 4, 2025 3:47 AM

I wonder how much more $$$ Conclave earned now.

by Anonymousreply 60May 4, 2025 4:19 AM

I understand Faye Dunaway coveted the role

by Anonymousreply 61May 4, 2025 4:28 AM

r60 I think it's funny that the movie switched streaming platforms, from Peacock to Prime, pretty much the day the pope died.

by Anonymousreply 62May 4, 2025 4:42 AM

Dunaway would’ve been magnificent as an old nun!

by Anonymousreply 63May 4, 2025 4:49 AM

An old nun drunk on Blue Nun.

by Anonymousreply 64May 4, 2025 5:02 AM

This role called for both sternness and warmth, and Dunaway has none of the latter.

What the role also required was a plain look, which she doesn't do at her age.

by Anonymousreply 65May 4, 2025 5:07 AM

Faye hasn't got the range.

by Anonymousreply 66May 4, 2025 5:42 AM

R62 Yes! I watched it a couple times on Peacock, and then a few days after the Pope's funeral I wanted to watch it again, and boom. Prime kicked in. I liked Isabella's nun. I'm glad the cast her. I can't think of another actress who would have been as convincing.

by Anonymousreply 67May 4, 2025 3:27 PM

Let's face it, Charlotte Rampling would have been awesome as well. She nailed her nun role in Benedetta.

by Anonymousreply 68May 4, 2025 3:48 PM

I preferred Angels And Demons to Conclave.

It had such a hot supporting cast as well.

by Anonymousreply 69May 4, 2025 9:22 PM

Not enough strikingly beautiful young novitiates in staff positions, as is lived reality at the Vatican.

by Anonymousreply 70May 5, 2025 12:03 AM

Supporting actress has a lot of leverage. Ultimately, it goes to being a minor but significant presence in the movie, which she was. That said, i love her but although i think her nomination was justied, her winning would be problematic.

by Anonymousreply 71May 5, 2025 12:25 AM

I watched it this afternoon. It was ok. I turned it off when the saintly unknown gave his "let's all hold hands and sing It's a Small World" idiotic speech.

by Anonymousreply 72May 5, 2025 12:31 AM

So you haven't watched the ending?

by Anonymousreply 73May 5, 2025 12:48 AM

One thing I haven't really seen mentioned much is the fact that the eventual pope started off the conclave by voting for himself, then kept voting for himself in each round despite assuring Whatshisface that he was behind him. To me, that narcissistic aspect is a lot more worrying than his lying about his intimate situation.

by Anonymousreply 74May 5, 2025 6:17 AM

I recently saw the old doc Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words (I think that's the title). Never realized that she put her three Italian kids in an apartment to be raised by nannies and wasn't really a day-to-day mom to them. When Isabella was diagnosed with scoliosis, Ingrid gave up her lifestyle and career to take care of Isabella in person for a couple of years. Her four kids all loved her despite her flaws.

by Anonymousreply 75May 5, 2025 1:56 PM
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