The Best of Youth vs Waiting for the Barbarians
The Best of Youth 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 6h 7m. The Best of Youth is the older of the two (2003 against 2019). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
The Best of Youth
Waiting for the Barbarians| The Best of Youth | Waiting for the Barbarians | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.1/10 | ★ 5.9/10 |
| Year | 2003 | 2019 |
| Length | 6h 7m | 1h 54m |
| Genres | Drama, History, Romance | Drama, History |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Marco Tullio Giordana | Ciro Guerra |
| Main cast | Luigi Lo Cascio, Jasmine Trinca, Andrea Tidona, Claudio Gioè, Riccardo Scamarcio | Sam Reid, Greta Scacchi, David Dencik, Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson |
Synopsis
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.
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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