Portrait of a Lady on Fire vs Waiting for the Barbarians
Portrait of a Lady on Fire has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 5.9/10 for Waiting for the Barbarians). Waiting for the Barbarians is the shorter watch at 1h 54m compared with 2h 1m. Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Waiting for the Barbarians| Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Waiting for the Barbarians | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.1/10 | ★ 5.9/10 |
| Year | 2019 | 2019 |
| Length | 2h 1m | 1h 54m |
| Genres | Drama, History, Romance | Drama, History |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Céline Sciamma | Ciro Guerra |
| Main cast | Valeria Golino, Noémie Merlant, Christel Baras, Adèle Haenel, Luàna Bajrami | Sam Reid, Greta Scacchi, David Dencik, Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson |
Synopsis
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.
Waiting for the Barbarians
At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, using cruel tactics that horrify the magistrate.
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