Waiting For The Barbarians
2020, 112 min.
Directed by Ciro Guerra, Starring Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson, Gana Bayarsaikhan, Greta Scacchi.

Not reviewed at press time. Adaptation of J. M. Coetzee’s 1980 award-winning novel dissecting empire and colonialism, as the Magistrate (Ryland) clashes with Colonel Joll (Depp) over the threat posed by those deemed ‘other’.

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