The Bélier Family vs The Stories
The Stories has the higher audience score (7.4/10 against 6.9/10 for The Bélier Family). The Stories is the shorter watch at 1h 41m compared with 1h 45m. The Bélier Family is the older of the two (2014 against 2026). Both are comedy, drama, music movies, so they suit a similar mood.
The Bélier Family
The Stories| The Bélier Family | The Stories | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.9/10 | ★ 7.4/10 |
| Year | 2014 | 2026 |
| Length | 1h 45m | 1h 41m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Music | Comedy, Drama, Music |
| Country | – | Egypt |
| Director | Eric Lartigau | Abu Bakr Shawky |
| Main cast | Roxane Duran, Mar Sodupe, François Damiens, Jérôme Kircher, Karin Viard | Nelly Karim, Amir El-Masry, Valerie Pachner, Amr Abed, Ahmed Kamal |
Synopsis
The Bélier Family
The whole Bélier family is deaf, except for sixteen year old Paula who is the important translator in her parents' day to day life especially when it comes to matters concerning the family farm. When her music teacher discovers she has a fantastic singing voice and she gets an opportunity to enter a big Radio France contest the whole family's future is set up for big changes.
The Stories
The Stories is a decades-spanning Egyptian family saga and love story set between the late 1960s and 1980s. The film follows Ahmed, a young man from a Middle-Class Cairo family who dreams of becoming a concert pianist. During the tense summer of 1967, as war looms over Egypt, he begins a pen-pal correspondence with an Austrian woman named Elizabeth (“Liz”). A semi-autobiographical film based on the director's parents and how they met.
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