Italian for Beginners vs Sing Street
Sing Street has the higher audience score (7.9/10 against 6.4/10 for Italian for Beginners). Sing Street is the shorter watch at 1h 45m compared with 1h 58m. Italian for Beginners is the older of the two (2000 against 2016). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Italian for Beginners
Sing Street| Italian for Beginners | Sing Street | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.4/10 | ★ 7.9/10 |
| Year | 2000 | 2016 |
| Length | 1h 58m | 1h 45m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance |
| Country | Denmark | – |
| Director | Lone Scherfig | John Carney |
| Main cast | Peter Gantzler, Ann Eleonora Jørgensen, Anders W. Berthelsen, Anette Støvelbæk, Lars Kaalund | Aidan Gillen, Mark McKenna, Lucy Boynton, Jack Reynor, Maria Doyle Kennedy |
Synopsis
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.
Sing Street
A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.
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