Waiting for the Barbarians
2019, drama, history
114 minutes
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.
Age
16+
Country
Italy, United States
Language
English, Mongolian
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8.0
2020-09-01
The vileness of colonialism chimes in unsettlingly with the current news. Its claustrophobia, pointlessness and destructiveness make it a disturbingly pertinent film but sadly a bit of a dull one. Read more
8.0
Rob Wallis of Of All The Film Sites
2019-09-17
Ciro Guerra’s Waiting For The Barbarians is a finely tempered adaptation of J.M. Coetzee’s elegantly allegorical novel about the brutal, self-defeating ironies of colonial oppression.
7.0
2020-08-01
Waiting for the Barbarians is not a film that will leave you guessing. But the decades-old message remains painfully vital, and in its quietest moments of subtlety, the film gives that message sufficient power. Read more
6.0
2021-06-23
There’s heart in this fierce and serious tale, but it’s also true that most of its episodes lack the drama that would turn it into the epic envisioned by Guerra... Read more
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