I Only Rest in the Storm vs The French Italian
The French Italian has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7/10 for I Only Rest in the Storm). The French Italian is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 3h 31m. The French Italian is the older of the two (2024 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
I Only Rest in the Storm
The French Italian| I Only Rest in the Storm | The French Italian | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.0/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2024 |
| Length | 3h 31m | 1h 32m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | Portugal | United States of America |
| Director | Pedro Pinho | Rachel Wolther |
| Main cast | Cleo Diára, Sérgio Coragem, Jonathan Guilherme, Jorge Quintino Biague, Renato Sztutman | Jon Rudnitsky, Sunita Mani, Aristotle Athari, Catherine Cohen, Soojeong Son |
Synopsis
I Only Rest in the Storm
Sergio travels to a metropolis in West Africa to work for an NGO as an environmental engineer on a road project between the desert and the forest. There, he becomes entangled in an intimate yet unbalanced relationship with two inhabitants of the city, Diara and Gui. As neo-colonial dynamics among the expatriate community unravel, this fragile bond becomes his only refuge from an impending collapse into solitude or barbarism.
The French Italian
Doug and Valerie have made a mistake. Their hate-fueled obsession with the jerks downstairs — who always seem to be singing karaoke in a brownstone, who even does that? — recently led them to flee the city for Doug’s parents’ place upstate, giving up a great deal on a rent-stabilized apartment. Their friends are horrified, and regret is setting in. They start plotting their revenge— and before they know it, they’re staging an off-Broadway play…
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