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Waiting for the Barbarians is a 2019 drama film directed by Ciro Guerra in his English-language directorial debut. The film is based on the 1980 novel by J. M. Coetzee. It stars Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson, Gana Bayarsaikhan, and Greta Scacchi.
Aug 7, 2020 · “Waiting for the Barbarians” would be a fitting title for a thesis about those recent films, so this movie should be a grand slam for the Colombian filmmaker working with his biggest production yet—instead it’s more revealing of how blunt his storytelling can be, and it's almost as if having a larger budget and A-list cast has led him ...
Aug 7, 2020 · With Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson, Gana Bayarsaikhan. 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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- Drama, History
- Ciro Guerra
- 2020-08-07
Waiting for the Barbarians is a novel by the South African writer J. M. Coetzee. First published in 1980, it was chosen by Penguin for its series Great Books of the 20th Century and won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for fiction.
- John Maxwell Coetzee
- 1980
Jul 11, 2023 · Waiting for the Barbarians is divided into four parts, a structural element that gives away its origins as a novel. This makes the film feel a bit episodic, but it works. The film’s first part, “The Colonel,” introduces us to an isolated outpost in the desert. There, we meet our protagonist, a man who is simply known as The Magistrate.
Aug 7, 2022 · No, ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’ is not based on a true story. It is based on the book of the same name by J.M. Coetzee. The title for the movie, as well as the book, comes from the poem by the Greek poet C.P. Cavafy. The peculiar thing about the story is that it never specifies what place or what time it is set in.
Aug 6, 2020 · ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’ Review: An Aestheticized Fable of Colonialism Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp and Robert Pattinson star in this Ciro Guerra film adapted from a J.M. Coetzee novel. Share ...
