Meeting with Pol Pot vs Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Portrait of a Lady on Fire has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 5.9/10 for Meeting with Pol Pot). Meeting with Pol Pot is the shorter watch at 1h 53m compared with 2h 1m. Portrait of a Lady on Fire is the older of the two (2019 against 2024). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Meeting with Pol Pot
Portrait of a Lady on Fire| Meeting with Pol Pot | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 5.9/10 | ★ 8.1/10 |
| Year | 2024 | 2019 |
| Length | 1h 53m | 2h 1m |
| Genres | Drama, History | Drama, History, Romance |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Rithy Panh | Céline Sciamma |
| Main cast | Grégoire Colin, Irène Jacob, Cyril Gueï, Bun-Hok Lim, Somaline Mao | Valeria Golino, Noémie Merlant, Christel Baras, Adèle Haenel, Luàna Bajrami |
Synopsis
Meeting with Pol Pot
Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) - 1978. Three French journalists are invited by the Khmer Rouge to conduct an exclusive interview of the regime's leader, Pol Pot. The country seems ideal. But behind the Potemkin village, the Khmer Rouge regime is declining and the war with Vietnam threatens to invade the country. The regime is looking for culprits, secretly carrying out a large scale genocide. Under the eyes of the journalists, the beautiful…
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
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