Here, 2020 has passed and we thought it would not pass, a very difficult year on the globe, which history will remember with dark memories and an epidemic that changed the lives of millions.
And because cinema provides us with a reflection of life, whether in terms of topics or in terms of changes that occur in the industry as a result of different circumstances, it is natural that the seventh art is affected by the Covid-19 epidemic, and we may not yet see good films about the epidemic, but it certainly has had a lasting impact. Whether the long hiatus from production and filming, the shutdown of movie theaters, the slow comeback, and massive financial losses affected the entire industry.
We also saw this year a major change in the mechanism of displaying and distributing films, after millions of people were denouncing until recent months the presentation of films on platforms such as Netflix, these platforms have become the safe and optimal outlet for viewing, but there are films that are distributed through the film on-demand method, then the platforms. As a way to mitigate material losses.
But despite all these losses we have suffered this year, 2020 was not without good films that dazzled and delighted millions of cinema fans, and perhaps this art and other entertainment arts were our safe haven in all this darkness.
In this article, I chose the best movies of 2020, that I chose after much difficult differentiation between films, some of which will remain in my favorites for the coming years, so this list becomes proof that cinema is an art created to live and overcome difficulties and help humans overcome them as well.
Best English speaking 2020 movies
1- I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Charlie Kaufman is a truly distinguished cinematographer, one of the most talented directors alive at the moment, but despite this great talent, he encounters production difficulties that make his production so meager and sadly reprehensible at the same time.
Since 2015, the animated movie Anomalisa, He has not made any cinematic films except this year, and he has returned with I'm Thinking of Ending Things, It is a distinct cinematic experience written and directed by him, which takes us into the mind of the main character on a dangerous journey between self-doubt and Idealism image about oneself, complex family and emotional relationships.
The movie was filled with literary and cinematic referrals that made decoding it an additional pleasure, Plus the super-beautiful cinematic image - which made it a heavy loss for its presentation on the Netflix platform - and the story of multiple philosophical and psychological dimensions that added weight and meanings to the work that differ according to the audience's reading.
2- The Father
Many movies about the relationship of fatherhood and filiation have been made, especially with the aging of the father and his health troubles or the bad relationship between him and his children, but how did the director Florian Zeller and writer Christopher Hampton recast this plot to become this beautiful?
The movie "The Father" starring Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Coleman, in one of their most beautiful roles, where Hopkins presents the character of the father with Alzheimer's or senile dementia, while Coleman plays the daughter who suffers with this sick father and his very difficult character.
3- Nomadland
The Golden Lion Award-winning film at the Venice Film Festival.Starring Oscar winner Frances McDormand and directed by Chloe Chow, which is set in the American desert but it is not a traditional Western movie, rather a poetic work of a special kind.
It revolves around a middle-aged woman after the death of her husband, She decides to leave her previous life and start the real life that she had long wished for in traveling in the desert using a wagon, from a simple job to another just to gain sustenance, and enjoy the time in peace.
The movie did not provide us with a traditional plot of beginning, middle, and end, or conflict and climax, it did not need any of that, only the delicate journey of transformation within the heroine to become a person closer to herself and the decomposition of social burdens, and between McDromand's calm performance and great photography and the use of non-professional actors in almost all roles Except for the heroine, the film was one of the most beautiful and softest films of the year.
The best 2020 movies from outside of Hollywood
4- There Is No Evil
Iranian cinema has been trying to overcome the censorship and religious difficulties continuously, to produce cinematic masterpieces for us every year that proved that extreme localism may be a way to Globalism, and to the most important prizes in the film industry. Therefore, it was not surprising that the film There Is No Evil by Muhammad Rasoulof won the Golden Bear Award from the Festival Berlin Film Festival, not even surprisingly, the legal crisis that his director entered due to the movie, and caused him to be sentenced to prison, which was not implemented due to the circumstances of the Corona Virus.
The events of the movie take place in a framework of four separate stories, each of them presents a different face to the same coin, as they were together on one topic, which is the death sentence, but from the perspective of the people who take the last steps of the execution, those whose hands are directly contaminated with the blood of the convicted, and how each of them deals with this step, does he consider it a routine work or a killing of his humanity?
5- My Favorite war
My Favorite war a movie by director Ilse Burkowska Jacobsen, a documentary work, but due to poor budget and capabilities, she decided to present it with a mixture of cartoons, videos, and photographs.
It is about Latvia since World War II, and until it emerged from under the mantle of the Soviet state, and how that country suffered like other communists, from attrition, poverty, and terror.
You only have to admire this very simple movie, but at the same time full of emotions, with a distinct plot, you forget that you are watching a documentary movie, and even the animation was distinguished despite the poor budget of the movie, and I can also consider it is the best cartoon movie of 2020, as this year was devoid of excellent cartoon movies.
6- Undine
Undine is a movie directed by Christian Petzold, which takes place in recent Berlin, but you can only feel an exotic atmosphere that dominates the work, and indeed the movie mixes realism and legend.
The heroine Undine, who works in a museum in Berlin and emerged from a failed emotional relationship to a successful relationship ending in a tragic end, is an echo of the German legend of Undine and combines both the real and mythical character the same fate.
The film's heroine, Paula Beer, deserved the Silver Bear award as best actress, and the film won the Best Picture award at the last Berlin Festival.
7- Servants
A movie from Slovakia directed by Ivan Ostruchovsky, which presents another face of dictatorship, which this time affects students of a theological school, who are asked to cooperate with the political police, otherwise they will face the most violent fate, and two students have to choose between betraying their principles or losing their lives.
8- Gagarine
Gagarin is a French movie about land, identity, family, and imagination that saves us sometimes and kills us at other times.
The events of the movie take place in a giant apartment complex building named Gagarin, as the famous astronaut Yuri Gagarin, who opened this building in the twentieth century.
Yuri is a lonely young man whose mother rejected him in the Gagarin building to search for a new family so that the building with its residents and material details becomes the womb for him, and when the Gagarin building becomes threatened with demolition due to age, he tries to save it in all ways.
At the end, when all his earthly solutions come to an end, he decides to head to space with a journey in which consciousness mixes with the unconscious, and the people of Gagarin must save him to return to life again.
translated from: https://www.arageek.com/art/best-2020-films
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