A Traveler's Needs vs Dinner with Friends
Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.2/10 for A Traveler's Needs). A Traveler's Needs is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 1h 36m. A Traveler's Needs is the older of the two (2024 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
A Traveler's Needs
Dinner with Friends| A Traveler's Needs | Dinner with Friends | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.2/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2024 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 30m | 1h 36m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | South Korea | – |
| Director | Hong Sang-soo | Sasha Leigh Henry |
| Main cast | Kwon Hae-hyo, Isabelle Huppert, Lee Hye-young, Cho Yun-hee, Ha Seong-guk | Tattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell |
Synopsis
A Traveler's Needs
Iris, a woman abroad in Seoul, teaches French and English in an idiosyncratic fashion that allows her to pursue her own philosophical and personal interests. Through four encounters over a single day, Iris probes students and strangers for information about poetry, their own histories, and their relationship to their egos.
Dinner with Friends
After the parties, jobs, and hook-ups throughout their twenties and into their thirties, eight friends are trying to hold on to their group as they get older and life gets complicated. Over a series of dinners, the group deals with loyalty, loss, and an uncertain future as relationships shift and secrets are unraveled, with each dinner bringing its own dynamic-shifting announcement of reconciliation, unexpected relationships, and betrayal. The…
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