One can forget quite what a creepy degenerate punch in the belly this film has. Whilst surrounded by all the most ravishing landscapes and real empathy for all her characters, that is inimitably Jane Campion.
Pedro Almodovar and Tilda Swinton together make this short film adaption of a Cocteau play compulsory viewing. Its a text book lesson in alienation, betrayal and revenge set in the characteristically heightened style, colour and tone, that his fans love.
This adaption of a Murakami short story is a poignant piece about grief, betrayal and loss. It's a slow and gently unfolding tale that draws you into the daily world of a driver and her daily client. This film never drags or overextend itself throughout its near three hour running time. Its like an elegy on life taken from in the slow lane.
This is a gloriously grissly and very pagan inflected retelling of the classic medieval tale, of the heroic knight, played here by Dev Patel. Who proves himself to be a supremely accomplished acting lead, in this superlative film and cast. Very visually rich fare.
Tom Hanks was made for this film about the children's TV performer Fred Rogers. Rogers appears to be too good to be true, it must be all a front, he is surely a fraud. A cynical journalist arrives anticipating he will do a hatchet job on his subject, instead he ends up having his views of himself challenged and transformed. Uplifting stuff.
Dennis Villeneuve finally succeeds where others fell terribly short, and produces a near definitive film version of Frank Herbert's Sci-Fi masterpiece. Grand in its scale, in its soundtrack and visualisation of an entirely different world and culture.
There are other superb films left out here, ( Nomadland, Detroit, First Reformed, Jibaro, You Are Not My Mother, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Last Night In Soho, The Joker, to name but a few ) but I set myself a limit of six, so six it is.
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