A Sad and Beautiful World vs Never Met Picasso

A Sad and Beautiful World has the higher audience score (8/10 against 4.7/10 for Never Met Picasso). Never Met Picasso is the shorter watch at 1h 41m compared with 1h 50m. Never Met Picasso is the older of the two (1997 against 2025). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.

A Sad and Beautiful World posterA Sad and Beautiful World2025 VS Never Met Picasso posterNever Met Picasso1997
A Sad and Beautiful WorldNever Met Picasso
Audience score★ 8.0/10★ 4.7/10
Year20251997
Length1h 50m1h 41m
GenresComedy, Drama, RomanceComedy, Drama, Romance
CountryLebanonUnited States of America
DirectorCyril ArisStephen Kijak
Main castCamille Salameh, Julia Kassar, Mounia Akl, Hasan Akil, Tino KaramKeith David, Margot Kidder, Alexis Arquette, Don McKellar, Richard Snee

Synopsis

A Sad and Beautiful World

In this sweeping love story that spans three decades of passion, heartbreak, and hope, Nino and Yasmina find themselves drawn together by a magnetic relationship. As they face an impossible choice between love and survival, they must decide if they want to build a family and chart a path to happiness in Lebanon, despite the tragedies ravaging the country.

Never Met Picasso

Still living at home with his avant-garde actress mother, constantly rejected by art schools, and without a lover, aspiring painter Andrew decides to enter a contest in hopes of winning a six month stay in Kenya. Though things aren't great for Andrew, neither are they wonderful for his lesbian friend Lucy who constantly bickers with her lover Ingrid. Lucy complicates Andrew's life when she introduces him to the suspicious-looking, enigmatic…

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