A Dog's Will vs Monsieur Batignole

A Dog's Will has the higher audience score (8.4/10 against 7/10 for Monsieur Batignole). Monsieur Batignole is the shorter watch at 1h 40m compared with 1h 44m. A Dog's Will is the older of the two (2000 against 2002). Both are comedy, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

A Dog's Will posterA Dog's Will2000 VS Monsieur Batignole posterMonsieur Batignole2002
A Dog's WillMonsieur Batignole
Audience score★ 8.4/10★ 7.0/10
Year20002002
Length1h 44m1h 40m
GenresComedy, Drama, Fantasy, RomanceComedy, Drama
CountryBrazil–
DirectorGuel ArraesGérard Jugnot
Main castMatheus Nachtergaele, Selton Mello, Rogério Cardoso, Denise Fraga, Diogo VilelaGérard Jugnot, Daniel Martin, Philippe du Janerand, Alexia Portal, Jean-Paul Rouve

Synopsis

A Dog's Will

The lively João Grilo and the sly Chicó are poor guys living in the hinterland who cheat a bunch of people in a small town in Northeastern Brazil. When they die, they have to be judged by Christ, the Devil and the Virgin Mary before they are admitted to paradise.

Monsieur Batignole

In 1942, in an occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in the building of his grocery. When his future son-in-law and collaborator of the German Pierre-Jean Lamour calls the Nazis to arrest the Jewish Bernstein family, they move to the confiscated apartment. Some days later, the young Simon Bernstein escapes from the Germans and comes to his former home. When Batignole finds…

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