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Reviewed at Venice Film Festival (competing), Sept. THR review: Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp and Robert Pattinson star in 'Waiting for the Barbarians,' an adaptation of a J. Coetzee novel directed by Colombian filmmaker Ciro Guerra ('Embrace of the Serpent'). 'Waiting for the Barbarians': Film Review

Waiting for the Barbarians

Movie review. "Waiting for the Barbarians". I'd nominate "Waiting for the Barbarians" for that list after seeing Colombian director Ciro Guerra's adaptation of J. Johnny Depp and Mark Rylance in Waiting for the Barbarians. The film is based on the novel of the same name by J. From here on out, "Waiting for the Barbarians" steadily accrues a grave, violent anger over encroaching systems of oppression that proves infectiously troubling and enraging, as Guerra's filmmaking gets wiser to tacit details. As Joll and the Third Bureau return with aggressive.

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Review: Waiting for the Barbarians Loses Its Apocalyptic Power on Screen. Ciro Guerra never quite finds an imagistic equivalent to the novel's subtly The film's narration lacks that sense of interiority that makes Waiting for the Barbarians on the page more than a simple moral tale; the anguish of the. Waiting for the Barbarians is a slowly brooding epic that tackles very topical political issues within our society now.

Ciro Guerra delivers with the I've yet to read anything by Nobel Laureate J. Coetzee, so I can't speak to how this movie (which Coetzee scripted) works as an adaptation of his fiction. Starring: Johnny Depp, Harry Melling, Mark Rylance and others. A Magistrate working in a distant outpost begins to question his loyalty to the Empire.