Il Mare vs The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has the higher audience score (7.6/10 against 7.4/10 for Il Mare). Il Mare is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 2h 46m. Il Mare is the older of the two (2000 against 2008). Both are drama, fantasy, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Il Mare posterIl Mare2000 VS The Curious Case of Benjamin Button posterThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button2008
Il MareThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Audience score★ 7.4/10★ 7.6/10
Year20002008
Length1h 36m2h 46m
GenresDrama, Fantasy, RomanceDrama, Fantasy, Romance
Country––
DirectorLee Hyun-seungDavid Fincher
Main castLee Jung-jae, Gianna Jun, Kim Mu-saeng, Cho Seung-yeon, Min Yun-jaeJulia Ormond, Taraji P. Henson, Jared Harris, Cate Blanchett, Brad Pitt

Synopsis

Il Mare

In the year 1999, a young woman leaves her quaint seaside house and returns to the city, leaving in the mailbox a card for the next owner, with instructions to forward any mail of hers to the new address. In the year 1997, a jaded young architect moves into the same house and finds the letter. His reply, which he slips into the mailbox, finds its way to her, beginning a parallel-time love story separated by a span of two years.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he meets Daisy, a child who flits in and out of his life as she grows up to be a dancer. Though he has all sorts of unusual adventures over the course of his life, it is his relationship with Daisy, and the hope that they will come together at the right time, that drives Benjamin…

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