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Old 09-18-2020, 03:51 PM   #12586
El Vaquero de Infierno
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Waiting for the Barbarians 7.5/10

Stars Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp and Robert Pattinson

Set at the frontier of an empire that has a late C19th French colonial look, with Rylance as the local magistrate. Johnny Depp's character is sent to the outpost by the government to find an excuse to start a conflict with the local nomadic people (the barbarians) and starts torturing the locals for information. Rylance comes across a nomad woman who has been left disabled after being tortured and eventually takes her back to her people. On his return, he is accused or treachery and is tortured, before Depp goes off to fight the nomads.

It is a slow, quiet film and not much happens, but I found myself engrossed in it.
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