Love Exposure vs Never Met Picasso
Love Exposure has the higher audience score (8/10 against 4.7/10 for Never Met Picasso). Never Met Picasso is the shorter watch at 1h 41m compared with 3h 57m. Never Met Picasso is the older of the two (1997 against 2009). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Love Exposure
Never Met Picasso| Love Exposure | Never Met Picasso | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.0/10 | ★ 4.7/10 |
| Year | 2009 | 1997 |
| Length | 3h 57m | 1h 41m |
| Genres | Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Country | Japan | United States of America |
| Director | Sion Sono | Stephen Kijak |
| Main cast | Hikari Mitsushima, Atsuro Watabe, Makiko Watanabe, Hiroyuki Onoue, Tasuku Nagaoka | Keith David, Margot Kidder, Alexis Arquette, Don McKellar, Richard Snee |
Synopsis
Love Exposure
The story of a teenage boy named Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while operating for the sake of sin as an "up-skirt" photographer. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing – which convinces Yoko that she is lesbian – dalliances with kung-fu and crime, and a constant struggle with the guilt that's a legacy of his Catholic upbringing.
Never Met Picasso
Still living at home with his avant-garde actress mother, constantly rejected by art schools, and without a lover, aspiring painter Andrew decides to enter a contest in hopes of winning a six month stay in Kenya. Though things aren't great for Andrew, neither are they wonderful for his lesbian friend Lucy who constantly bickers with her lover Ingrid. Lucy complicates Andrew's life when she introduces him to the suspicious-looking, enigmatic…
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