It’s not your typical stop-motion film when characters name pets after Sylvia Plath and read “The Diary of Anne Frank” — or when the story’s inspired by a quote from existentialist thinker Søren Kierk ...
As a result, Conclave‘s mood ends up resembling that of a paranoid ’70s thriller and, therefore, one that justifies the hushed, urgent tone that dominates many of its biggest conversations, ...