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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.
- $764,815
- Waiting for the Barbarians, by J. M. Coetzee
- Giampiero Ambrosi
Aug 7, 2020 · Waiting for the Barbarians: Directed by Ciro Guerra. 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
- 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
- 156 (hardcover edition)
- 1980
- 27 October 1980
Aug 7, 2020 · The timely conversation topics are all there—the horrific act of othering, the damage of fear, the grave dehumanization that comes with lethal force—but “Waiting for the Barbarians” is too sentimental for the benefit of its larger ideas. Despite the sincerity that’s in every scene with Rylance’s performance, the movie's good ...
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Watch Waiting for the Barbarians with a subscription on Prime Video, rent on Fandango at Home, Apple TV, or buy on Fandango at Home, Apple TV. Admirable in theory but disappointing in execution ...
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- Mark Rylance
- Ciro Guerra
- Iervolino Entertainment
Sep 6, 2019 · An adaptation of JM Coetzee’s 1980 novel, Waiting for the Barbarians tells the story of a magistrate presiding over an unidentified colonial outpost in the middle of the desert, presumably in ...
Aug 6, 2020 · Waiting For The Barbarians - Trailer starring Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp, and Robert Pattinson. Watch on. Despite the magistrate’s protestations that no barbarian encroachment is in the offing ...