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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 · 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
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Aug 7, 2020 · Reviews. Waiting for the Barbarians. Nick Allen August 07, 2020. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. Mark Rylance had an easier time making us believe he was the 24-feet-tall "BFG" than he does here, trying to sell us a colonizer with a conscience in Ciro Guerra's tedious "Waiting for the Barbarians."
Admirable in theory but disappointing in execution, Waiting for the Barbarians struggles to turn strong performances and worthy themes into affecting drama. A local magistrate reevaluates his...
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- Mark Rylance
- Ciro Guerra
- History, Drama
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,...
