Still as enchanting and imaginative as ever, even if Miyazaki’s work had to overcome some pacing issues and an anything-goes narrative.
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Boy and the Heron, The (2023)
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Constant Factor, The (1980)
A young Polish man living with his dying mother harbours dreams of scaling the Himalayas but has to face rampant corruption at his workplace in Zanussi’s character study of a person caught in the two worlds of morality and mortality.
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Napoleon (2023)
Superbly-executed battle scenes aside, there is something vacant in Scott’s unflattering treatment of one of France’s most infamous historical figures.
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Piscine, La (1969)
This French antecedent to ‘A Bigger Splash’ is a stylish if somewhat monotonous drama oozing sexual tension as a couple and a father-daughter duo temporarily reside in a summer house.
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Killer, The (2023)
An existential crisis plagues a professional hitman after a job gone wrong in Fincher’s serviceable genre exercise, shot in his trademark methodical style that mirrors his protagonist’s attention to process.
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Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021)
A charming delight as this Oscar-nominated live-action/stop-motion animation hybrid centers on the exploits and feelings of a talking mollusc shell who lives with his granny, shot as a self-aware ‘documentary’.
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Green Border (2023)
Holland’s finest work in a while and one that incurred the wrath of the Polish government, this politically sharp and urgent piece about refugees that get pushed about at the border between Poland and Belarus is complex and shot soberingly in black-and-white.
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Confidentially Yours (1983)
Truffaut’s terrific last film is as Hitchcockian as it gets, with a top performance by Fanny Ardant who plays a sleuthing secretary after her boss becomes the prime suspect in a series of murders.
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Leon Morin, Priest (1961)
A sensually shot if also subtly erotic take on religion and desire, handled with deft skill by the great Melville.
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Here (2023)
One of the most underrated gems of the year as a Romanian construction worker encounters a Belgian-Chinese doctoral student of moss, with Devos’ exceptional sensitivity towards the audiovisual experience affording us a sense of quietude and calm quite rarely felt in today’s European cinema.
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