Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards, Features Editor“Waiting for the Barbarians,” with an impressive cast including Robert Pattinson, Johnny Depp and Oscar winner Mark Rylance,, is available Friday on VOD.
Based on the 1980 novel by J. M. Coetzee (who also adapted the screenplay) the film focuses on an unnamed Magistrate (Rylance) of a frontier settlement whose life is uprooted by the arrival of Colonel Joll (Depp) who, ostensibly sent to keep the peace, ends up destroying it.
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