The epidemic can’t make these movies fall!
In 2020,epidemicMake the global film industry almost desperate.
The global box office was only $13 billion, down nearly from $42.9 billion in 2019.70%.
However, in such an unfavorable environment, filmmakers have not given up, and there are still films that continue to be produced.
Like European movies, in early 2020, it cost a lot of money to build.[Leo Landau] project.
14 movies and 3 TV seriesIts huge volume is unique in the history of movies.
[Leo Landau] With the pioneering nature of the film, we broke through the blockade of the epidemic on art and explored the "frontier" of the film further.
On the other side of the ocean in Japan,[Ghost Blade Theater Edition Infinite Train], to break the historical box office record, telling the tenacity and stubbornness of filmmakers and movies..
In the case that many cinemas in Japan are closed.
Three days after its release, it broke 15 records in Japanese film history.
On December 26th, it surpassed Spirited Away to the top.Japanese film history box office champion.
Whether it is European movies or Japanese and Korean works, there are always some movies shining in the bleak 2020.
Top ten European films
Let a hundred flowers blossom is synonymous with European films in 2020.
Not only,France, Germany, DenmarkSuch "regular customers" are among them.
Romania, Portugal, GeorgiaSuch a small film country also made many excellent films last year.
European films in 2020 are still pluralistic, humanistic and artistic.
10
[Words and deeds]
Les choses qu’on dit, les choses qu’on fait
Director: Emmanuel Mouret
Screenwriter: Emmanuel Mouret
Starring: Camélia Jordana/niels schneider
Genre: drama/comedy/love
Language: French
Length: 122 minutes
From the audio-visual language, the film is far from the author.
However, the directorEmmanuel MouretThe creativity of the script is bursting.
Two men and women, who are like emotional trash cans, live a life of sexual happiness but bitterness.
They enjoy the physical stimulation of extramarital affairs, but also suffer from the true love of extramarital affairs.
This is the case with the people around you.
Murray’s use of the plot is full of surprises and no exaggeration.
One role at a time, completely building a whole."spiritual man"The emotional world.
At the same time, the subject of the story can still form a closed loop, which reflects the advanced nature of creation.
09
[Miracle Zegna]
Śniegu już nigdy nie będzie
Director: malgorzata szumowska
Screenwriter: malgorzata szumowska
Starring: Alec Utgoff/weronika rosati
Genre: drama/comedy
Language: Polish
Length: 113 minutes
Director Berlin Silver BearagateGorzata SchmovzkaOnce again, it brings a realistic film mixed with "fantasy" colors.
The rapid development of contemporary Polish society has created a false "spiritual prosperity" for the middle class.
Their emptiness was filled by Zegna, a masseur with "super" hands.
The audience, like customers in Zegna, was fascinated by the director and cameraman’s delicate lens.
Immersed in a warm and strange atmosphere all the time.
08
[Gagarin]
Gagarine
Directed by Fanny Leatard/Jeremy Trouilh
Screenwriter: Benjamin Chabit/Fanny Leatard/Jeremy Trouilh.
Starring: Eiseni Besley/Lena Coudrie
Type: plot
Language: French
Length: 95 minutes
Gagarin is a space hero that Yuri yearns for, and Gagarin is also a residential community that Yuri can’t give up.
What is witnessed inside and outside the community is the helplessness of the bottom immigrants.
Inside and outside Yuri’s mind is a persistent portrayal of her dreams.
When the community to be demolished becomes Yuri’s ideal space station, both pain and joy become dreamlike.
directorFanny LeatardandJeremy TrouilhExtend the short film of the same name into a debut feature film.
At the same time, it keeps the base of the story, and at the same time, it extends a rich author’s expression.
Dreams and reality become a strong contrast.
07
[Start]
დასაწყისი
Director: Dia Cullen Begashvili
Screenwriter: Dia Cullen Begashvili /Rati Oneli
Starring: Kaka Kinzulashvili/Lati O ‘Nelly
Type: plot
Language: Georgian
Length: 120 minutes
Yana, the actress, married David, the leader of the Georgian minority Sect Yezheng.
And such a family life of three is almost equivalent to the ubiquitous mental imprisonment and serious female survival dilemma.
directorDia Cullen BegashviliUse restrained images.
It records the absolute suffocation behind the dullness, and the speculative energy hidden under the text is amazing.
It’s hard for you to imagine that this is a feature film debut, and it’s even harder to digest that this story is adapted from a real person.
06
[alcohol program]
Druk
Director: thomas vinterberg
Screenwriter: thomas vinterberg/Tobias Lindholm
Starring: mads mikkelsen/Thomas Bo Larsen
Genre: drama/comedy
Language: Danish/Swedish
Length: 117 minutes
Uncle Mai once again impressed the audience with his performance.
The uncle who passed middle age lost his passion for life, and alcohol gave him a new life.
Uncle Maizi vividly interprets the power of bottoming out.
The dance at the end spread the personal charm off the screen.
directorThomas VinterbergI don’t want to praise alcohol, nor is it an advertisement for abstinence.
But to seriously discuss the role of alcohol in a joking way.
First, the hand-held lens is used to sway with drunkenness, coupled with Tchaikovsky’s music, so that the audience can enter a state of drunkenness.
Then, through literary narration, let alcohol transcend its own functions.
Turned into an anesthetic, truth serum.
As a sharp knife to tear open a false society, it is also a pusher to discover a better life.
05
[Persian class]
Persischstunden
Director: vadim perelman
Screenwriter: Wolfgang Kohlhaase /Ilja Zofin
Starring: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart/Lars Eidinger
Type: plot
Language: German/French/Farsi/English/Italian
Length: 127 minutes
[Persian class]Showed us the cruelty of war in an extremely absurd way.
In the concentration camp, in order to save his life, he lied that he was from Persia, and was asked by German officers to teach himself Persian.
A small volume that doesn’t know Persian at all can only create a language out of thin air.
The root of this language comes from the names of 2840 Jewish dead.
The director extends the meaning of language by means of movies.
Language carries an indelible will.
The self-made "Persian" will record this history that is trying to be erased forever.
Behind every word "Persia" is the silent cry of countless murdered Jews.
"Persian", which belongs to only two people, hides the cruel war between two nations.
04
[Bird Metamorphosis]
A morfose dos pássaros
Director: Catarina Vasconcellos
Screenwriter: Catarina Vasconcellos
Starring: Manuel Rosa/João Móra
Genre: drama/documentary/biography
Language: Portuguese
Length: 100 minutes
[Bird Metamorphosis]Trying to show the audience the infinite possibilities of images.
The oil painting texture presented by the film is collaged into an image prose poem.
Family members narrate their family history with highly literary monologues, but they get caught up in the whirlpool of memories when they are not careful.
It is a beautiful and quiet family record, and the memory revealed is clean and clear.
Things have become the carrier of these memories.
The sea symbolizing father and the forest symbolizing mother seem to have a gap forever.
At the end, the tree was taken into the sea, and the two finally reunited in memory.
03
[Undine]
Undine
Director: christian petzold
Screenwriter: christian petzold
Starring: Paule bell/Franz Rogowski
Type: Plot/Love
Language: German
Length: 90 minutes
[Undine]Hook up the historical imprint of the city in a mythical way.
The film seems to be about water sprite.UndineLove story.
In fact, it is in the mouth of love myth, telling the historical entanglement of Berlin.
Berlin, which has experienced a long division and miraculously recovered, has stopped on the road of progress.
The only solution is to cut off the past, just as Undine killed the old love.
The director projected his hopes for Berlin into the film without reservation, and onto Undine.
02
[collective]
Colectiv
Directed by Alexander Nanau.
Screenwriter: Alexander Nanau /Antoaneta Opris
Starring: Razvan Lutac/Mirela Neag
Type: documentary
Language: Romanian/English
Length: 109 minutes
[collective]Discusses the new form of shooting documentary.
adoptDetective genre filmThe way.
Compact narrative rhythm, advancing layer by layer, reeling.
It creates a rare sense of tension for the audience all the time.
A fire in a bar exposed Romania’s corrupt medical system naked to the people.
Before and after, we used two perspectives: investigative reporters and health ministers.
Analyze the national system from the perspectives of media and government.
But I came to the conclusion"This country will never get back to normal in 30 years."Desperate conclusion.
01
[Leo Landau: Natasha]
DAU. Natasha
Director: Ekaterina Attl/Ilya Herza Novski
Screenwriter: Ilya Herza Novski/Koralanau-Drobantseva
Starring: Natalia Berezhnaya
Type: plot
Language: Russian/Ukrainian/English
Length: 137 minutes /145 minutes (Berlin Film Festival)
[Leo Landau] It is not so much a movie as a powerful anthropological experiment.
Movies are just a way to record this grand project.
It is no exaggeration to say that it is the most ambitious work in the 21st century.
In this Soviet-style utopia, the director became Stalin.
Holding a camera that symbolizes power.
Tear off the last disguise of the participants at will and expose them under the camera without any cover.
No matter how different its evaluation is, it will undoubtedly be a highlight in the history of film.
Top ten movies in Japan and South Korea
In 2020 Japanese and Korean movies, except[Ghost Blade Theater Edition Infinite Train]This kind of phenomenal movie. There is no lack of[Yukiko’s Balance]Such a masterpiece of virginity.
Sion Sono, Sang-soo Hong.Such a great director also contributed a good new work.
I can’t help but imagine that this year’s Japanese and Korean movies are still "men of courage"!
10
[Your eyes are asking]
きみのがぃかけてぃる
Director: Takahiro Miki
Screenwriter: Denmi Yuji
Starring: Yoshitaka Yuriko/Yokohama ryusei
Type: love
Language: Japanese
This film is a positive example in the remake.
Keep the original Korean version[Only you]The backbone at the same time.
Greatly adjusted the age of the man-Yokohama ryuseicompareJi-seob SoTen years younger.
This move makes the story line of the male owner sad and has more pain.
Let his choice, more than a refuse and tear.
It is supplemented by the Japanese simplification of this type and the excellent sparks from Yokohama ryusei and Yoshitaka Yuriko.
Even if this love is so bloody, it makes people want to stop.
09
[Is there a baby crying around? ]
Cry, cry, cry, cry, cry.
Director: Sato Kuaimo
Screenwriter: Sato Kuaimo
Starring: Taiga Nakano/Riho Yoshioka
Type: plot
Language: Japanese
Length: 108 minutes
The sneakiness at the beginning and the explosion at the end form a powerful bite.
Japanese traditional culture"living and stripping ghosts"It is a thoroughfare for the narrative of this film.
The series shows that men are suffering in the family and social environment.
And the way to solve it will eventually return to life and death.
directorSato quick grindingThe control of narrative rhythm is impressive.
It has a mysterious sense of audio-visual language that is rare for contemporary Japanese directors.
08
[Ghost Blade Theater Edition Infinite Train]
Theater version of Ghost Extinction Blade Infinite Train Compilation
Director: Haruo Waizaki
Screenwriter: Ufotable/ I call the world clear
Starring: Natsuki Hanae/Kito Akari
Type: animation
Language: Japanese
Length: 117 minutes
The story of "Infinite Train" was chosen as the theatrical version, which was really wonderful.
First of all, the story is relatively independent and very friendly to non-comic/animated audiences.
Secondly, Yan Zhu purgatory Xing Shoulang, in this plot, became the first column to be introduced in all directions.
Once again, the climax of the film isYan Zhu xing shou lang VS the third seat of the first chordStrong confrontation.
Fight, fight, tear, tear.
cover withUfotableStrong animation production level, won the first box office in Japan, well deserved.
07
[spy’s wife]
My wife.
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Screenwriter: Ryūsuke Hamaguchi/Nohara/Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Starring: Yuu Aoi/Issei Takahashi/Bandong Longtai
Type: Plot/History/War
Language: Japanese
Length: 115 minutes
[spy’s wife]It’s an anti-war movie with high ideas.
Through a Japanese couple who are world humanitarian defenders.
The story of risking his life to send the evil evidence of the biochemical test conducted by Japanese 731 troops in Manchuria to the United States and make it public.
Reflecting on this aggression from the perspective of Japanese nationals has raised the war between the two countries to the universal level of defending justice for all mankind.
The lens with a strong sense of stage and the tone like classical oil painting create a bright and lively atmosphere.
Yuu Aoi’s face is always filled with a bright and innocent smile, and the couple’s "spy" action is also full of game-like unreal sense of adventure.
It casts a soft light filter on the bloody and sinful reality behind it.
Telling cruel things in beautiful language is full of compassion in writing sad scenes with happy scenes.
There are no countries in front of the smoke, only greedy careerists and innocent victims.
As Issei Takahashi said in the film:"I’m not a spy. Spies work for others. I’m just following my heart."
06
[Red mailbox on escher Street]
ェッシャーりのぃポスト
Director: Sion Sono
Screenwriter: Sion Sono
Starring: Mo Ailuo/Tomoko Fujita/Mitsuru Fukikoshi
Genre: drama/comedy
Language: Japanese
Length: 146 minutes
Sion SonoUse this film to announce the resistance to the film.
Fragmented narrative and fragmented editing.
Aim the camera at the group performance that only exists in virtual focus in the movie.
Sion Sono declared that the protagonist was dead with madness and absurdity, which belongs to everyone.
At the end of the movie, when they took to the streets shouting.
It is the liberation of the film, but also the reorganization of the film fragments.
05
[Yukiko’s Balance]
Yukiko Libra
Director: Junjiro Haramoto
Screenwriter: Junjiro Haramoto
Starring: Takauchi Gongmei/Ken Mitsuishi/Hehe Youshi
Type: plot
Language: Japanese
Length: 153 minutes
[Yukiko’s Balance]It is a questioning of the initial heart of the documentary.
In the face of the social events photographed, how to balance the contradictions and complexity in the events?
Yuuko is a documentary director in the film.
She is determined to restore the whole story of a campus bullying incident from the perspective of not taking sides.
However, with the deepening of the investigation, the balance in Yuuko’s heart is constantly collapsing.
The director used restrained shooting techniques to let the audience think calmly in Yuuko’s predicament.
As a director’s debut, his creative talent is amazing.
04
[Ministers of Nanshan]
남산의 부장들
Director: Min-ho Woo
Screenwriter: Min-ho Woo/Li Zhimin
Starring: Lee Byunghun/Li Xingmin/Kwak Do won
Genre: plot/thriller/history
Language: Korean
Length: 114 minutes
[Ministers of Nanshan]Showed us the strength of the Korean film industry.
This is a thrilling political thriller, focusing on the murder of President park chung-hee in 1979.
Typed scheduling and editing firmly fixed the audience’s eyes on the screen.
The soundtrack and lighting create a dangerous film atmosphere, which keeps the audience’s mood high all the time.
Lee Byunghun’s steady and ruthless performance style makes people astonish, and the handling of action details highlights his acting skills.
Slipping in a pool of blood at the end is the finishing touch.
[Ministers of Nanshan] showed the end of a dark age, but did not usher in light.
03
[Fukuoka]
후쿠오카
Director: Lv Zhang
Screenwriter: Lv Zhang
Starring: Jae-mun Yun/Kwon Hae hyo/Su-dam Park
Type: plot
Language: Korean/Japanese/Mandarin Chinese
Length: 86 minutes
This is a Korean film made by a China director in Japan, which also brings a different world to this film.
The film blurs the boundaries of time and space, and also blurs the boundaries of language.
Created a utopian vision of world harmony.
Two middle-aged men have not seen each other for 28 years because of love.
The appearance of a girl reconciled the two.
Such fairy-tale persistence is rare in reality.
With the ghostly lens scheduling in the film, and a lot of daily life shooting.
It gives people an unrealistic sense of reality, which is the director’s powerful place.
Fukuoka interweaves reality and fantasy, and also carries the director’s dream.
02
[seaside cinema]
Hai GUI ying picture gallery
Director: Nobuhiko Obayashi
Screenwriter: Nobuhiko Obayashi
Starring: Taro Atsugi/Takato Hosoyamada/Hosoda Yoshihiko/Yoshida Ling
Type: Plot/Love/Science Fiction/War
Language: Japanese
Length: 179 minutes
[seaside cinema] attempts to use the time of a movie to write the modern history of Japan.
Taking the history of movies as the shape and the history of war as the meaning, love is the pen that writes history.
The creation towards the audience really broke the fourth wall.
Pull the audience into the movie and put the audience in the torrent of history.
This is Nobuhiko Obayashi’s posthumous work, more like the last elegy that Nobuhiko Obayashi left for the film.
The film recorded the last screening of a seaside cinema.
Nobuhiko Obayashi also used this movie to say goodbye to us.
01
[runaway woman]
도망친 여자
Director: Sang-soo Hong
Screenwriter: Sang-soo Hong
Starring: Jin Minxi/Young-hwa Seo/Seon-mi Song/Li Enmei
Type: plot
Language: Korean
Length: 77 minutes
[runaway woman]beSang-soo HongA new breakthrough.
Accustomed to discussing the relationship between men and women, he is completely oriented towards women this time.
He tried to analyze female psychology from a female perspective and spatial structure.
The room, the monitor and the space represented by the cinema all correspond to the film respectively.Min-hee KimIn my heart.
These spaces exclude men without exception.
The film depicts an escaped woman.
More precisely, it depicts the heart of a woman who runs away from men.
I hope you can meet more good movies in 2021.
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