1 BRIGHT STAR
Director: Jane Campion
The short and passionate love affair between poet John Keats and the girl next door Fanny Brawne graced the silver screen. Brilliant performances from Ben Whishaw and Abby Cornish were the emotional heart of the movies. Campion struck a perfect balance between the dramatic and the restrained composure and her film convincingly deserves to be seen as one of the best ever about love.
2. WHITE RIBBON
Director: Michael Haneke
The director of Hidden proved once again he is the master for making films concerning the violence that sustains bourgeois life. This film looks back at a small German village in 1913 and gives a grim and insightfully bleak picture of the corruption of innocence. Haneke shot this film in colour but digitally altered it to make a deliberately rich black-and –white.
3. LEAVING
Director: Philippe Lioret
This year French cinema is all about the passionate and emotionally wounded. Kristin Scott Thomas gave her best performance yet as a woman driven wild by passion. Similarly plotted as the Italian melodrama I Am Love, this romantic thriller had all the recipe of a highly charged drama.
4. TOY STORY 3
Director: Lee Unkrich
The continuing saga and final instalment of Woody, Buzz and the rest of Pixar’s plastic fantastics is a strong contender for the Oscar for best animated movie. This movie was made with the study of the human condition in mind, from adolescence to mortality. Like Avatar, it deserves a Best Picture nomination too.
5. STILL WALKING
Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda
It’s a pleasure to watch the highs and lows of everyday life of this Yokoyama family. Through shared memories, unspoken words and a series of vignettes, they remember the death of the eldest son many years ago. An exquisitely calculated masterpiece.
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