Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms vs Our Lady of the Turks
Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms has the higher audience score (8.2/10 against 6.6/10 for Our Lady of the Turks). Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms is the shorter watch at 1h 55m compared with 2h 4m. Our Lady of the Turks is the older of the two (1968 against 2018). Both are drama, fantasy movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms
Our Lady of the Turks| Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms | Our Lady of the Turks | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.2/10 | ★ 6.6/10 |
| Year | 2018 | 1968 |
| Length | 1h 55m | 2h 4m |
| Genres | Adventure, Animation, Drama, Fantasy | Drama, Fantasy |
| Country | Japan | – |
| Director | Mari Okada | Carmelo Bene |
| Main cast | Tomokazu Sugita, Hiroaki Hirata, Yuki Kaji, Yoshimasa Hosoya, Yoko Hikasa | Carmelo Bene, Lydia Mancinelli, Salvatore Siniscalchi, Anita Masini, Ornella Ferrari |
Synopsis
Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms
Maquia is a member of a special race called the Iorph who can live for hundreds of years. However, Maquia has always felt lonely despite being surrounded by her people, as she was orphaned from a young age. She daydreams about the outside world, but dares not travel from her home due to the warnings of the clan's chief. One day the kingdom of Mezarte invades her homeland. They already have what is left of the giant dragons, the Renato, under…
Our Lady of the Turks
To the protagonist, an intellectual so feverish that he seems pathologically unrecoverable, a confused memory resurfaces of a massacre carried out by the Turks in Otranto. Immersing himself in one of the victims, in the unconscious desire to eviscerate himself, a woman appears to him, Margherita, who, in the guise of Santa Maria d'Otranto, treats him with compassionate love. In the hallucinating succession of memories intertwined with…
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