Decade Film Parade: Places 10-1
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From Will Farrell's comedy to the movie that unveiled to us the new Chinese empire, from Pixar's animated hit to heartbreaking drama about the American Dream Chronicle. The third and final part of the decade film parade, and with it the answer to the question: What is the biggest movie of the last ten years?
Avner Shavit
27/12/2019Summary of previous chapters:
Places 60-35
Places 34-11
10. The other guys. Adam McKay, 2010
The fourth and best collaboration of director Adam McKay and actor Will Farrell, who stars here on the side of Mark Wahlberg. The two embody a pair of losing cops who get their chance after the police station stars find themselves dead in one of the most surprising and hilarious scenes of the decade. From here on out, the movie only gets more and more funny, and demonstrates the timeless ability of the comedy to expose unsuspecting social injustices at all. Through the white-collar affair revealed by the heroes, "The Other Guys" emerged as one of the first American films to deal with Wall Street's inclusion mechanism: an issue that will only become fashionable later, and still not very common on the screens. All this also prepared the ground for the director's move to more "serious" deliverables, which dealt with politics and the economy from a less comedic point of view - the "money machine" and "the vice president."
9. Alert at dawn. Catherine Bigelow, 2012
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To the full articleFour years after directing one of the great films of the previous decade, "The Charge of Pain," Catherine Bigelow did it again. This time, too, it is a drama about American involvement in the Middle East, though in this case, the centerpiece of the plot is a woman - "Alone at Dawn" follows the clandestine agent who, at least as described here, led the operation to locate and then eliminate bin Laden. The media in the United States, with its typical self-righteous and superficial, was quick to decide that the film justifies the use of torture by the security authorities, thus eliminating its chances during the awards season. The truth is that it is a wonderfully complex and ambivalent work that speaks of the futility and emptiness of revenge, and brings to light all its layers through a bold and impressive cinematic expression and powerful acting performances by Jessica Chastain, the movie star and one of the most prominent American actresses of the last ten years. .
From "Alone at Dawn" (Photo: PR)
Alone at dawn (Photo: PR)
8. Tony Erdman. Maran Ade, 2016
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To the full articleIt will be easier to state what is not in the German film from Arn Eda than to enumerate what is in it. Tony Erdman has everything. He manages to amuse, touch the heart, stretch and surprise, and touch on a long line of topics: fathers and daughters, masters and servants, West vs. East, feminism, capitalism and, well, the meaning of existence. It's a movie you never know where it's going. Sometimes he acts like an American hangman, and it's no wonder that Hollywood quickly acquired its reworked rights, but sometimes like European festival drama, including moments already associated with this type of act, such as blatant sex scenes. Throughout, the film maintains an emotional power that only intensifies until the beautiful finale scene. So, in a conversation between the father and daughter who are at the center of the plot, he tells her that life is often more than just a list of chores to be marked, so it is hard to enjoy the moment, and it is only from a long-term perspective that the little things we go through can be appreciated. And what do we say? "Tony Erdman" was amazing in real time, and it remains so in retrospect.
From "Tony Ardman" (Photo: PR)
Tony Erdman (Photo: PR)
7. Love. Michael Henke, 2012
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To the full articleMichael Hankan's film about an elderly man eating his deathbed has won almost every possible award in his year out, including an Oscar for the foreign movie and the Golden Palm. In the winning position, star Jean-Louis Trentinian took to the stage and finished his remarks in the famous trial of Jacques Prover - "Let's try and be happy, if only to give an example." As such, "love" is also an exemplar - a model of grace, of compassion, of humanity in all its glory. In addition, he is also a masterpiece of filmmaking. Hanka, one of the greatest masters of our time, is at his peak here, both technically and emotionally, and collected in front of his camera three of the greatest actors in French history: Trentinian, Isabel Hopper and Emmanuel Riva, who unfortunately passed away a few years after filming, and this remains her last major film.
From "Love" (Photo: PR)
Love (Photo: Screenshot)
6. The voice in the head. Pete Doctor, 2015
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To the full articleDuring this decade, too, as in his previous two, Pixar has produced some wonderful films - for example, "Toy Story 3", which starred in a previous part of the parade, and "Coco," which was unfortunately pushed off our list for lack of space, but certainly deserved it. Even more than these two, the greatest artistic achievement of animation studios, and not just in the last ten years but in general, was "The Voice in the Head." This hit dives into the troubled consciousness of a girl experiencing a crisis after moving, and returns from there with a song of praise to sadness and anger, fear and joy, to the living creatures as they are, and to the endless worlds they hold in their minds. No wonder that despite his dazzling success, this pearl did not give rise to the pledge. To everyone, even to the greed, it's obviously a once in a lifetime movie.
From "The Voice in the Head" (Photo: PR)
Joy, sadness, fear, anger and disgust - the image from Pixar's film "The Voice in the Head" (Photo: Giphy)
5. The rider. Chloe Zhao, 2017
Chloe Zhao’s film is about a former rodeo star who ended his career due to injury and has trouble finding his place in the world when he’s not on the horse. The experience of watching it is as beautiful and painful as waking from a daydream, and the director does well to deal with issues such as the dream of the dream and to disassemble concepts like masculinity and heroism, but not with the delusion of destruction, but with exceptional gentleness and sensitivity. Following the film's success, the director has been recruited by Marvel and staged "The Eternal" in her service. In doing so, it is leading a slew of filmmakers who should be signed next year on some of the biggest blockbusters of 2020, and may also change the face of the industry.
4. No. Pablo Larin, 2013
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To the full articleChilean director Pablo Larin's feature film takes place in the late 1980s, following the referendum that brought Pinochet's dictatorship to an end in his country. He follows a similar documentary approach to the propaganda campaign that contributed to the historic turnaround, and does so in a sweeping and enlightening way that raises fascinating questions and refuses to answer them with easy answers. Although his heroes achieve their goal and gain a dramatic and inspiring victory, the film maintains a melancholy restraint throughout and even in the end, perhaps with an awareness that, unfortunately, the achievement portrayed here will not be so significant: Chile seems to have become a democracy, but it remains a failure state. - Horrifying, sexist and violent, which oppresses most of its citizens. Here's how: a decade comes and a decade goes, everything changes and everything basically stays the same.
From "No" (Photo: PR)
No (Photo: PR)
3. Growing up. Richard Linklater, 2014
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To the full article"I thought there would be more," says the mother figure in Patricia Arquette's play in one of the most unbearable moments of "growing up", expressing what many are likely to feel at the end of the decade. The dozen years depicted here in the life of the adolescent hero and his parents, filmed in real time, are fleeting, so watching is one big panic attack for those who will see from the passing of time. A bigger-than-life movie, which is both life itself, what is beautiful about it and what is disappointing - for example, the fact that the main character here evolves from sweet sweet to unbearable. The soundtrack, which begins in Coldplay and ends at Arcade Fire, amplifies the great emotional drama in the first place and also functions as a musical time capsule of our generation.
From "maturing" (Photo: PR)
Growing up (Photo: PR)
2. A bunch of girls. Celine Shyama, 2014
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To the full articleCeline Shyama began the decade with the esteemed and talked about "Tomboy" and finished it off with "Portrait of a Fire Girl," which also deserved a high spot on the parade. In the meanwhile, she directed "A Bunch of Girls," in which she took one of the male genres, the French suburban film, and re-wrote it from a female perspective, of a black girl suffering from dual oppression, both because of her socio-economic background and also because of her gender . The result, as usual with the director, can support a variety of seminar work, but it is an exceptional and emotionally stimulating experience, both cinematic and musical - the scene in which the protagonists dance to Rihanna's "Diamonds" sound is the best cinematic use of music in the last decade, and this will be further expanded in the article. Separate.
1. Touch of sin. Jia Zhang-ka, 2013
Almost every one of the top ten films would have earned first place honestly, too, but after a lot of banter, I decided to give it a "touch of sin" - the film by Chinese director Zia Zhang-ka, weaving some stories together that make up a portrait of Contemporary China. The film garnered a lot of international awards and a great deal of resonance during its release, although in Israel it was not commercially distributed and content with screenings as part of the Jerusalem Festival. Why did I choose it?
1. Because only being asked to choose a Chinese film in a decade in which China has become an ever-dominant empire in every respect - cultural and cinematic, too
2. While sketching a panoramic picture of China nowadays, the film touches on almost every topic that has been topical and relevant for the past decade, the Asian empire and every other country: government corruption, class gaps, pig capitalism, toxic masculinity and the like
3. In addition, it also touches on universal and temporal issues such as revenge, justice, love and destiny
4. Because all of this is interpreted before us in a virtuosic and intriguing cinematic act that combines human and intimate dramas with thrilling action scenes, and best draws upon Chinese traditions of cinema and theater to innovate and surprise. A movie awaits and shows, which can be watched several times and every time to learn something more, which does not hesitate to challenge neither the authorities in his country nor the viewers and viewers in the West - and in ten years, when we select the thirty major films of the first thirty years of this century, he will also star in it
