The French Italian vs The Luminous Life
The French Italian is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 46m. The French Italian is the older of the two (2024 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
The French Italian
The Luminous Life| The French Italian | The Luminous Life | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 0.0/10 |
| Year | 2024 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 32m | 1h 46m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | United States of America | Portugal |
| Director | Rachel Wolther | João Rosas |
| Main cast | Jon Rudnitsky, Sunita Mani, Aristotle Athari, Catherine Cohen, Soojeong Son | Ângela Ramos, Francisco Melo, Cécile Matignon, Margarida Dias, Federica Balbi |
Synopsis
The French Italian
Doug and Valerie have made a mistake. Their hate-fueled obsession with the jerks downstairs — who always seem to be singing karaoke in a brownstone, who even does that? — recently led them to flee the city for Doug’s parents’ place upstate, giving up a great deal on a rent-stabilized apartment. Their friends are horrified, and regret is setting in. They start plotting their revenge— and before they know it, they’re staging an off-Broadway play…
The Luminous Life
It’s springtime in Lisbon and Nicolau turns 24, but he’s not celebrating. Living in his parents’ house, hostage to a dream of being a musician that never comes true and plagued by the ideal image of an ex-girlfriend who left him a year ago and never came back, Nicolau feels incapable of moving forward and inventing a life of his own. He takes odd jobs until the day he discovers that his mother is just as dissatisfied with life as he is. Nicolau…
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