Italian for Beginners vs What We Wanted to Be
What We Wanted to Be has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 6.4/10 for Italian for Beginners). What We Wanted to Be is the shorter watch at 1h 24m compared with 1h 58m. Italian for Beginners is the older of the two (2000 against 2024). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Italian for Beginners
What We Wanted to Be| Italian for Beginners | What We Wanted to Be | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.4/10 | ★ 7.8/10 |
| Year | 2000 | 2024 |
| Length | 1h 58m | 1h 24m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Country | Denmark | Argentina |
| Director | Lone Scherfig | Alejandro Agresti |
| Main cast | Peter Gantzler, Ann Eleonora Jørgensen, Anders W. Berthelsen, Anette Støvelbæk, Lars Kaalund | Eleonora Wexler, Luis Rubio, Antonio Agresti, Carlos Gorosito |
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.
What We Wanted to Be
An impossible love story that begins outside a movie theater, continues in a café and could end with the two protagonists together… if real life wasn’t much more complicated than the movies. United by their love of cinema, these two main characters decide to live the lives they dreamed of and not the lives they are destined to live. In a series of encounters, imagination triumphs over reality and everyday reality takes a back seat.
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