A Sad and Beautiful World vs The Sessions
A Sad and Beautiful World has the higher audience score (8/10 against 6.9/10 for The Sessions). The Sessions is the shorter watch at 1h 35m compared with 1h 50m. The Sessions is the older of the two (2012 against 2025). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
A Sad and Beautiful World
The Sessions| A Sad and Beautiful World | The Sessions | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.0/10 | ★ 6.9/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2012 |
| Length | 1h 50m | 1h 35m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Country | Lebanon | – |
| Director | Cyril Aris | Ben Lewin |
| Main cast | Camille Salameh, Julia Kassar, Mounia Akl, Hasan Akil, Tino Karam | W. Earl Brown, John Hawkes, William H. Macy, Helen Hunt, Adam Arkin |
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.
The Sessions
Though a childhood bout with polio left him dependent on an iron lung, Mark O'Brien maintains a career as a journalist and poet. A writing assignment dealing with sex and the disabled piques Mark's curiosity, and he decides to investigate the possibility of experiencing sex himself. When his overtures toward a caregiver scare her away, he books an appointment with sex surrogate Cheryl Cohen-Greene to lose his virginity.
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