Love Exposure vs Welcome to the Sticks

Love Exposure has the higher audience score (8/10 against 6.7/10 for Welcome to the Sticks). Welcome to the Sticks is the shorter watch at 1h 46m compared with 3h 57m. Welcome to the Sticks is the older of the two (2008 against 2009). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Love Exposure posterLove Exposure2009 VS Welcome to the Sticks posterWelcome to the Sticks2008
Love ExposureWelcome to the Sticks
Audience score★ 8.0/10★ 6.7/10
Year20092008
Length3h 57m1h 46m
GenresAction, Comedy, Drama, RomanceComedy, Drama, Romance
CountryJapanFrance
DirectorSion SonoDany Boon
Main castHikari Mitsushima, Atsuro Watabe, Makiko Watanabe, Hiroyuki Onoue, Tasuku NagaokaDany Boon, Michel Galabru, Anne Marivin, Kad Merad, Guy Lecluyse

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.

Welcome to the Sticks

Although living a comfortable life in Salon-de-Provence, a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while. To please her, Philippe Abrams, a post office administrator, her husband, tries to obtain a transfer to a seaside town, on the French Riviera, at any cost. The trouble is that he is caught red-handed while trying to scam an inspector. Philippe is immediately banished to the distant unheard of town of…

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