Dreaming of Lions vs Italian for Beginners
Dreaming of Lions has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 6.4/10 for Italian for Beginners). Dreaming of Lions is the shorter watch at 1h 25m compared with 1h 58m. Italian for Beginners is the older of the two (2000 against 2025). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Dreaming of Lions
Italian for Beginners| Dreaming of Lions | Italian for Beginners | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.8/10 | ★ 6.4/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2000 |
| Length | 1h 25m | 1h 58m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Country | – | Denmark |
| Director | Paolo Marinou-Blanco | Lone Scherfig |
| Main cast | Denise Fraga, Joana Ribeiro, Toni Gomila, Roberto Bomtempo, João Nunes Monteiro | Peter Gantzler, Ann Eleonora Jørgensen, Anders W. Berthelsen, Anette Støvelbæk, Lars Kaalund |
Synopsis
Dreaming of Lions
Gilda is terminally ill. Her only wish is to die without pain, and as all her suicide attempts comically fail, she decides to seek professional help.
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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