Millennium Actress vs The Sessions
Millennium Actress has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 6.9/10 for The Sessions). Millennium Actress is the shorter watch at 1h 27m compared with 1h 35m. Millennium Actress is the older of the two (2002 against 2012). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Millennium Actress
The Sessions| Millennium Actress | The Sessions | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.8/10 | ★ 6.9/10 |
| Year | 2002 | 2012 |
| Length | 1h 27m | 1h 35m |
| Genres | Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Satoshi Kon | Ben Lewin |
| Main cast | Fumiko Orikasa, Koichi Yamadera, Shozo Iizuka, Masaya Onosaka, Masane Tsukayama | W. Earl Brown, John Hawkes, William H. Macy, Helen Hunt, Adam Arkin |
Synopsis
Millennium Actress
Documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana has tracked down the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who mysteriously vanished at the height of her career. When he presents her with a key she had lost and thought was gone forever, the filmmaker could not have imagined that it would not only unlock the long-held secrets of Chiyoko’s life... but also his own.
The Sessions
Though a childhood bout with polio left him dependent on an iron lung, Mark O'Brien maintains a career as a journalist and poet. A writing assignment dealing with sex and the disabled piques Mark's curiosity, and he decides to investigate the possibility of experiencing sex himself. When his overtures toward a caregiver scare her away, he books an appointment with sex surrogate Cheryl Cohen-Greene to lose his virginity.
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