Meeting with Pol Pot vs The Best of Youth
The Best of Youth 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 6h 7m. The Best of Youth is the older of the two (2003 against 2024). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Meeting with Pol Pot
The Best of Youth| Meeting with Pol Pot | The Best of Youth | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 5.9/10 | ★ 8.1/10 |
| Year | 2024 | 2003 |
| Length | 1h 53m | 6h 7m |
| Genres | Drama, History | Drama, History, Romance |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Rithy Panh | Marco Tullio Giordana |
| Main cast | Grégoire Colin, Irène Jacob, Cyril Gueï, Bun-Hok Lim, Somaline Mao | Luigi Lo Cascio, Jasmine Trinca, Andrea Tidona, Claudio Gioè, Riccardo Scamarcio |
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…
The Best of Youth
After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family diverge, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades.
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