top 5 international movies

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According to me there are so many films which recorrds the peak. some of them are,

1. “Honeyland”

Filmmaking boiled down to its essence: Character expressed in action, movement and reaction.

2. “Portrait of a Lady on Fire”

A reminder that our best films (knowingly or not) often become meditations on the medium itself.

3. “Waves”

Sound, color, movement at the service of unfiltered, raw emotion.

4. “The Irishman”

Marielle Heller’s ability to find an expansive emotional truth in the small, in between moments not only grounds this film — which, frankly, could have been a schmaltzy trainwreck — it elevates it to something special. Once upon a time in Hollywood, we considered that great directing.

5. “The Beach Bum”

There was just something about staring (without judgment, but through Benoit Debie’s beautiful lens) hedonism squarely in the eye for 96 minutes while the world outside the theater burned that I found as enjoyable as I did thought-provoking.

6. “Monos”

I don’t even know how much I enjoyed this film, as much as I was intoxicated by one of the most astounding new filmmaking talents I’d encountered in awhile.

7. “Parasite”

There was nothing wrong with Bong Joon Ho’s last two films; but there was an element of heavy lifting and strenuous math required to orchestrate so many pieces, that I found myself watching the orchestration. It was a pure joy to see him work in an enclosed narrative space where he could playfully control everything — especially the audience. He very well may have a “Fury Road” in him, but for the moment I’d prefer him being our far more emotionally well-adjusted, socially conscience, slightly wacky Hitchcock.

8. “American Factory”

Incredible access to a story that is the perfect political and economic metaphor for America in 2019. It is also incredibly structured, the best told story of 2019 (and the best edited film of the year).

9. “Ford v Ferrari”

What was lost in the Scorsese vs. Marvel debate is how many of us cinephiles believe in what Hollywood was and still can be.

10. “A Hidden Life”

Maybe it’s the strength of the film’s conflict, or how deeply on a spiritual level Terrence Malick felt the protagonist’s Jesus-like struggle, but for me this is the first film since “Tree of Life” where the pieces of Malick’s natural cubism (h/t Benjamin B.) came together to form a satisfying whole.

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