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outstanding movies that I've seen since 2012.
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- DirectorChristopher HamptonStarsEmma ThompsonJonathan PryceSteven WaddingtonThe platonic relationship between artist Dora Carrington (Dame Emma Thompson) and writer Lytton Strachey (Jonathan Pryce) in the early twentieth century.Based on.. well, 'a true story' doesn't sound right. Based on what happened. A beautiful story of a profound friendship (and a lot of Dora's relationships too.) I love this movie so much! Have seen it many times. About the life of art, the demands of the heart, Englishness, friendship, and...life and living. And Dora and Lytton are I suppose unique, eccentric people, very good at what they do, and unstoppably determined to be themselves.
- DirectorKen LoachStarsCarol WhiteRay BrooksWinifred DennisA wedding. Happy and promising. A young couple, new to the ways of life. The joys of parenthood: A dream comes true. Then the first incident in a long, spiraling chain of events, and down they go. No job, no money. Moving from house to house, each smaller than the last. Hope is briefly found, But fate strikes again under a cruel word: Eviction. The family flees. A caravan is their shelter. But little did they know what was to come. Fire, destruction. Rage. Discrimination towards the poor. Hope is lost. The last straw is pulled. Distress. Separation. The family torn apart. Mother and children, father all alone. The ship can sink no lower. Or so they thought. Broke. Crushed. Chased from their last shelter. A mother clings to her children. And the final blow: children ripped from her loving arms.
- DirectorMike LeighStarsTimothy SpallBrenda BlethynPhyllis LoganFollowing the death of her adoptive parents, a successful young black optometrist establishes contact with her biological mother -- a lonely white factory worker living in poverty in East London.Extremely gruelling and intense; hang in there for the (somehow) happy ending. Timothy Spall is maybe the best in a perfect cast, everything works. Somehow it seems better than the amazing Topsy-Turvy, maybe because this isn't theatre life, it's real life. (Per Fly's Performances has both.)
- DirectorMike LeighStarsJim BroadbentAllan CordunerDexter FletcherSet in the 1880s, the story of how, during a creative dry spell, the partnership of the legendary musical/theatrical writers Gilbert and Sullivan almost dissolves, before they turn it all around and write the Mikado.Even non-Gilbert & Sullivan fans will love this. Astonishingly well-constructed. So full and rich. Perfection.
- DirectorOlivier NakacheÉric ToledanoStarsFrançois CluzetOmar SyAnne Le NyAfter he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver.Kevin Costner is.. ah sorry wrong movie. This is funny, touching, uplifting. Can't go wrong.
- DirectorLouis MalleStarsAndre GregoryWallace ShawnJean LenauerTwo old friends meet for dinner; as one tells anecdotes detailing his experiences, the other notices their differing worldviews.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsSandrine BonnaireMacha MérilStéphane FreissA young woman's body is found frozen in a ditch. Through flashbacks and interviews, we see the events that led to her inevitable death.Actual title: Sans toit ni loi
- DirectorJean BeckerStarsGérard DepardieuGisèle CasadesusMauraneA semi-literate and lonely odd-job man bonds with a much older and well-read woman.Actual title: La Tête en Friche
- DirectorBertrand TavernierStarsPhilippe TorretonMaria PitarresiNadia KaciA teacher from a small, depressed town is trying to do something useful.Ça commence aujourd’hui
- DirectorColine SerreauStarsColine SerreauVincent LindonJames ThierréeOn a distant planet, rural vegans master telepathy and mental power to travel interstellar etc. Mila is sent to Earth to report back. She lands in Paris - quite a cultural shock. Earthlings are strange.The Beautiful Green
- DirectorLeos CaraxStarsDenis LavantEdith ScobEva MendesA man boards a limousine to be driven to his day's work: nine mysterious "appointments."
- DirectorAbdellatif KechicheStarsLéa SeydouxAdèle ExarchopoulosSalim KechioucheAdèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire and to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adèle grows, seeks herself, loses herself, and ultimately finds herself through love and loss.La vie d'Adele
- DirectorGuillaume CanetStarsFrançois CluzetMarie-Josée CrozeAndré DussollierAn accidental discovery near a doctor's estate stirs up some painful memories eight years after his wife's hideous murder, and now, things are bound to take a turn for the unexpected. Does the good doctor know more than he's letting on?A great thriller - exciting, touching, intelligent, full of twists.
- DirectorGuillaume CanetStarsFrançois CluzetMarion CotillardBenoît MagimelA near-fatal accident leaves one friend in the hospital while the rest go on their annual vacation. But their secrets and personal grief threaten to drive them apart.
- DirectorMichel HazanaviciusStarsJean DujardinBérénice BejoJohn GoodmanWhen George, a silent movie superstar, meets Peppy Miller, a dancer, sparks fly between the two. However, after the introduction of talking pictures, their fortunes change, affecting their dynamic.A masterpiece. Wonderfully entertaining, makes you wish more movies are silent and in black and white.
- DirectorJacques AudiardStarsTahar RahimNiels ArestrupAdel BencherifA delinquent Muslim man struggles to get by in prison until he is taken under the wing of a powerful mob boss. But his gradual rise through the mob's ranks brings him in conflict with his mentor.
- DirectorJacques AudiardStarsMarion CotillardMatthias SchoenaertsArmand VerdurePut in charge of his young son, Alain leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Alain's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.
- DirectorAlain TannerStarsMyriam BoyerJean-Luc BideauMiou-MiouA look at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the "revolutionary" sixties.Jonah who will be 25 in the year 2000
Script by John Berger of "Ways of Seeing" fame. Intelligent, profound, subtle, at-times-funny human drama of a group of friends of the French 'generation of 1968' finding lives for themselves. A great movie. - DirectorJean-Pierre DardenneLuc DardenneStarsOlivier GourmetMorgan MarinneIsabella SoupartA joinery instructor at a rehab center refuses to take a new teen as his apprentice, but then begins to follow the boy through the hallways and streets.Le fils.
Uyy this is claustrophobic and intense. Uniquely filmed and told; it feels like a brutally honest documentary; 'nothing happens' but everyday life, for long stretches. The main character is the sort of character that is never the main character in movies! Hard to describe - I remember Roger Ebert got it, and did a very good review of this. I have to see more Dardenne brothers films! So far only "Two days, one night" which was also very intense and moving. - DirectorVíctor EriceStarsFernando Fernán GómezTeresa GimperaAna TorrentIn 1940, after watching and being traumatized by the movie Frankenstein (1931), a sensitive seven year-old girl living in a small Spanish village drifts into her own fantasy world.Silence, countryside, beauty, Frankenstein...
Erice's unfinished El Sur is also amazing. - DirectorAlejandro AmenábarStarsEduardo NoriegaPenélope CruzChete LeraA very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured.Vanilla Sky (2001) is a remake of this. (Both starring Penélope Cruz)
It seems every one of Amenábar's movies are excellent. And usually he does the music too as well as the writing and directing. - DirectorAlejandro AmenábarStarsJavier BardemBelén RuedaLola DueñasThe factual story of Spaniard Ramon Sampedro, who fought a 28-year campaign in favor of euthanasia and his own right to die.
- DirectorEliseo SubielaStarsDarío GrandinettiSandra BallesterosNacha GuevaraOliveiro is a young poet living in Buenos Aires where sometimes he has to sell his ideas to an advertising agency to make a living or exchange his poems for a steak. In Montevideo, he meets a prostitute, Ana, with whom he falls in love. Back in Buenos Aires, he accepts a contract with a publicity agency to get the money for three days of love with her. Will he get what he's searching for when his ideal of love's pleasure is literally going in levitation while making love?Subiela is one of my very favourite directors. His movies have a lot of heart, and soul, and warmth. They exist somehow on a spiritual plane, even when 'about' love or art.
From Oliverio Girondo's 'Scarecrow':
I couldn't care less if women have breasts like fresh magnolias or withered figs, skin smooth as a peach or rough as sandpaper. I accord it an importance equal to zero whether they wake up with the breath of an aphrodisiac or the breath of an insecticide. I am perfectly capable of enduring a nose on them that could take first prize in a carrot exposition. But here's the thing!—and in this I am inflexible—I do not pardon them, under any pretext, if they don't know how to fly. - DirectorEliseo SubielaStarsLorenzo QuinterosHugo SotoInés VernengoA patient in a mental hospital claims to be an extraterrestial. Could he be right?The guy who wrote K-PAX claimed not to have seen this beforehand. Could he be right? Subiela sued him. Then the guy wrote a book about that.
Well, the first time I saw Total Recall, in the cinema when it came out, I'd had a dream the night before that was almost exactly the same as that movie. (On Mars, the atmosphere popping the eyes out etc etc everything.) It was unbelievable. Yet I had no memory of hearing anything about it at all beforehand. But I must have..right? - DirectorEliseo SubielaStarsDarío GrandinettiMariana AriasOscar MartínezIt is the fantastic story of a couple that has the chance to live for centuries loving one another because of various reincarnations.