Stunning performances from Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson and Academy Award-winner Mark Rylance (Bridge Of Spies) drive this motion picture. The cinematography is beautiful, and the director creates a world that forces us to look deeper into ourselves and ask, “What would I do?” The Magistrate (Mark Rylance) of an isolated frontier settlement on the border of an unnamed empire, looks forward to an easy retirement, until the arrival of Colonel Joll (Johnny Depp). His task is to report on the activities of the “barbarians” and on the security situation on the border. Joll conducts a series of ruthless interrogations, which leads the Magistrate to question his loyalty to the empire. Waiting For The Barbarians is directed by Ciro Guerra and written by Nobel Prize winning author J.M. Coetzee, who adapted the screenplay from his own novel. Two-time Academy Award winner Chris Menges was the cinematographer.
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