Fanon vs The Best of Youth
The Best of Youth has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 6.6/10 for Fanon). Fanon is the shorter watch at 2h 12m compared with 6h 7m. The Best of Youth is the older of the two (2003 against 2025). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Fanon
The Best of Youth| Fanon | The Best of Youth | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.6/10 | ★ 8.1/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2003 |
| Length | 2h 12m | 6h 7m |
| Genres | Drama, History | Drama, History, Romance |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Jean-Claude Barny | Marco Tullio Giordana |
| Main cast | Stanislas Merhar, Olivier Gourmet, Déborah François, Arthur Dupont, Salomé Partouche | Luigi Lo Cascio, Jasmine Trinca, Andrea Tidona, Claudio Gioè, Riccardo Scamarcio |
Synopsis
Fanon
Frantz Fanon, a French psychiatrist from Martinique, has just been appointed head of department at the psychiatric hospital in Blida, Algeria. His methods contrast with those of the other doctors in a context of colonization. A biopic in the heart of the Algerian war where a fight is waged in the name of Humanity.
The Best of Youth
After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family diverge, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades.
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