Waiting for the Barbarians is truth in advertising because this new film is so painfully paced it feels like an eternity while we are waiting for said Barbarians. Or actually anything to happen. Fo…
is truth in advertising because this new film is so painfully paced it feels like an eternity while we are waiting for said Barbarians. Or actuallyFortunately, this movie has a very accomplished and watchable cast, particularly with the main lead, Oscar winner Mark Rylance ,
and the likes of another quirky turn from Johnny Depp and another offbeat supporting role for Robert Pattinson. Add to that an Oscar-winning cinematographer shooting vast landscapes worthy ofa script from a Nobel Prize-winning author and a director whose past two foreign language films were widely acclaimed.
Here’s what plot there is. We are in some country in an outpost in an isolated frontier settlement of an unnamed empire. The Magistrate there is livingin terms of coasting toward the end of his tour of duty when in pops creepy and deadly-serious Colonel Joll , who ostensibly is tracking activities of the Barbarbians as well as the questionable security of the border.
Later on, his cohort Officer Mandel arrives to exhibit his own brand of punishment on the locals. The Magistrate tries to carry out a policy of getting along with the native population and seems horrified that his uninvited superiors use other methods. We see him start to crack as Joll begins his law-and-order spiel.
Based on his 1980 book, 2013 Nobel-winning author J.M. Coetzee turns screenwriter as well, but something is lost in translation. That also might be the problem for Oscar-nominated Colombian director Ciro Guerra, whose past two films —were highly acclaimed, but here finds himself working in the English language for the first time.
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