Faust vs Soul
Soul has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 6.6/10 for Faust). Soul is the shorter watch at 1h 41m compared with 2h 20m. Faust is the older of the two (2011 against 2020). Both are drama, fantasy movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Faust
Soul| Faust | Soul | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.6/10 | ★ 8.1/10 |
| Year | 2011 | 2020 |
| Length | 2h 20m | 1h 41m |
| Genres | Drama, Fantasy | Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Aleksandr Sokurov | Pete Docter |
| Main cast | Georg Friedrich, Lars Rudolph, Hanna Schygulla, Maxim Mehmet, Antoine Monot Jr. | Daveed Diggs, Alice Braga, Wes Studi, Rachel House, Angela Bassett |
Synopsis
Faust
A doctor in early 19th-century Germany becomes infatuated with the sister of a man he unintentionally killed and bargains with the Devil incarnate to conjure their union in exchange for his soul.
Soul
Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to…