After bursting into the mainstream with his Oscar-winning Netflix hit adaptation of “All Quiet on the Western Front,” Edward Berger is back with “Conclave,” a tense political thriller premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival. While not without its challenges like any other film, Berger said at TheWrap’s 2024 TIFF Studio sponsored by Moët & Chandon and Boss Design that there was one big difference between “Conclave” and “Western Front”: this time he got to shoot in Rome.
“I definitely didn’t want to go to the mud again,” he admitted. “We went to the freezing cold for the first movie.
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TIFF 2024: Another perk of shooting a Vatican political thriller: getting to shoot a movie in Rome