Waiting for the Barbarians, 2019. Directed by Ciro Guerra. Starring Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson, Gana Bayarsaikhan, Greta Scacchi, and David Dencik. SYNOPSIS: In a distant, unnamed colonial outpost in the Middle Eastern desert, a Magistrate begins to question his loyalty to the Empire after the arrival of state security officers with morally questionable […]
Movie Review – Waiting for the Barbarians (2020)
Waiting for the Barbarians, 2020. Directed by Ciro Guerra. Starring Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson, Gana Bayarsaikhan, Greta Scacchi, David Dencik, Sam Reid, Harry Melling, and Bill Milner. SYNOPSIS: A Magistrate working in a distant outpost begins to question his loyalty to the empire. J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians is already a novel […]
Trailer for Waiting for the Barbarians starring Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson and Mark Rylance
Samuel Goldwyn Films has debuted the first trailer and a new poster for director Ciro Guerra’s upcoming drama Waiting for the Barbarians. Based on Nobel Prize winning author J.M Coetzee’s novel of the same name, and features a cast that includes Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson, Gana Bayarsaikhan, and Greta Scacchi; take a look […]
Movie Review – Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
Embrace of the Serpent, 2015. Directed by Ciro Guerra. Starring Jan Bijyoet, Brionne Davis, Nilbio Torres and Antonio Bolivar. SYNOPSIS: Separated by 40 years, two explorers travel down the Amazon in search of the rare Yakruna plant, famed for its medicinal and psychedelic properties. Both are escorted by the same shamen, the last of his tribe, […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Waiting for the Barbarians
Waiting for the Barbarians, 2019. Directed by Ciro Guerra. Starring Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson, Gana Bayarsaikhan, Greta Scacchi, David Dencik. SYNOPSIS: In a distant, unnamed colonial outpost in the Middle Eastern desert, a Magistrate begins to question his loyalty to the Empire after the arrival of state security officers with morally questionable methods. […]
