Cousins vs Italian for Beginners
Cousins has the higher audience score (7.7/10 against 6.4/10 for Italian for Beginners). Cousins is the shorter watch at 1h 23m compared with 1h 58m. Italian for Beginners is the older of the two (2000 against 2019). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Cousins
Italian for Beginners| Cousins | Italian for Beginners | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.7/10 | ★ 6.4/10 |
| Year | 2019 | 2000 |
| Length | 1h 23m | 1h 58m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Country | – | Denmark |
| Director | Mauro Carvalho, Thiago Cazado | Lone Scherfig |
| Main cast | Thiago Cazado, Paulo Sousa, Juliana Zancanaro, Denis Camargo, Eduarda Esteves | Peter Gantzler, Ann Eleonora Jørgensen, Anders W. Berthelsen, Anette Støvelbæk, Lars Kaalund |
Synopsis
Cousins
Lucas is a young man who lives with his religious aunt Lourdes in a quiet country town. He helps his aunt by holding religious meetings with the ladies of the area, in the living room, playing biblical songs on the keyboard. This quiet life will end as soon as the charitable aunt communicates the arrival of another nephew, Mario, just out of jail. The clash of reality between the cousins ends up causing unusual situations, and an unexpected…
Italian for Beginners
Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in Italian as the platform to meet the romance of their lives. The film, which unspools the connections and family drama shared between the students, complies with several aesthetic principles of Dogme 95 movement.
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