My Top Film Festival movies for 2022 (in list order)
The best of Berlin, Cannes and Venice official competition film festivals in 2022...
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- DirectorRuben ÖstlundStarsThobias ThorwidHarris DickinsonCharlbi DeanA fashion model celebrity couple join an eventful cruise for the super-rich.1. Ruben Östlund just gets darker and weirder with each film, and this brilliant absurdist piece of art is a supreme take-down on the vanity of today's self-centered society, with Harrelson almost stealing the show... (Cannes)
- DirectorLukas DhontStarsEden DambrineGustav De WaeleÉmilie DequenneThe intense friendship between two thirteen-year old boys Leo and Remi suddenly gets disrupted. Struggling to understand what has happened, Léo approaches Sophie, Rémi's mother. "Close" is a film about friendship and responsibility.2. Powerful observation on adolescent awakening and the ramifications of social pressure to go against one's desire and destroy that inner-being with gut wrenching consequences, aided by performances that will leave you spellbound and captured perfectly by the filmmakers...
- DirectorJerzy SkolimowskiStarsHolaTakoMariettaFollows a donkey who encounters on his journeys good and bad people, experiences joy and pain, exploring a vision of modern Europe through his eyes.4. Master filmmaker, Skolimowski, has constructed a visual bleak journey of a donkey in a cruel and amusing chaotic world…
- DirectorMartin McDonaghStarsColin FarrellBrendan GleesonKerry CondonTwo lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.7. McDonagh has crafted a simple but effective dark comic tale about a broken friendship and the folks on an isolated Irish island during 1923 while the civil war raged on the mainland. Told brilliantly in stunning visuals, with performances to match... (Venice)
- DirectorRomain GavrasStarsDali BenssalahSami SlimaneAnthony BajonHours after the tragic death of their youngest brother in unexplained circumstances, three siblings have their lives thrown into chaos.8. Social dilemmas in any modern city could explode with a single act of prejudicial racial violence, creating a domino effect that shatters a whole community as seen in this Shakespearean-like taunt political saga of three brothers from different moral grounds who take to battle with their own demons, and each other, all carried out in long intense breathtaking shots... (Venice)
- DirectorSantiago MitreStarsRicardo DarínGina MastronicolaFrancisco BertínA team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship during the 1980s in a battle against odds and a race against time.15. It has your attention right to the very end with a taunt political screenplay aided by moments of humor, and natural heartfelt performances that bring to light the horrid violent period of junta ruling in Argentina... (Venice)
- DirectorTodd FieldStarsCate BlanchettNoémie MerlantNina HossSet in the international world of Western classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer-conductors and the very first female director of a major German orchestra.16. By turning the tables on our perception that there are only preying men in high positions, Todd Field has delivered an artful dark cheeky story of a renown female conductor and her sneaky sociopath abuse of power... (Venice)
- DirectorAlejandro G. IñárrituStarsDaniel Giménez CachoGriselda SicilianiXimena LamadridAn acclaimed documentarian goes on an introspective journey through surreal dreamscapes to reconcile with the past, the present and his Mexican identity.17. Iñárritu ventures into the social void of his birth country via the unconscious damaged mind of possibly his alter-ego, Silverio, a documentarian lured to the U.S. way of life (like Iñárritu) but who returns home to a painful past and an uncertain future, all in a hyper surreal dreamlike tone, reminiscent of Fellini's 8 1/2... (Venice)
- DirectorAndrew DominikStarsAna de ArmasLily FisherJulianne NicholsonThe story of American actress Marilyn Monroe, covering her love and professional lives.20. Director Dominik has proven to be an auteur of cinema with this fragmented visual essay on Marilyn Monroe's tormented soul, linking actual facts with a personal fictionalization of what it could have been, and it all paid off thanks to de Armas' stunning performance... (Venice)
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsSong Kang-hoGang Dong-wonBae DoonaWhen a young mother reconsiders abandoning her baby, she discovers a scheme selling foundlings for adoption.47. Hirokazu returns to his style of humane humor that was a success in The Shoplifters, and this time via a group of misfits who while attempting to sell a baby, create a strong family bond (including the police)... (Cannes)
- DirectorPark Chan-wookStarsPark Hae-ilTang WeiLee Jung-hyunA detective investigating a man's death in the mountains meets the dead man's mysterious wife in the course of his dogged sleuthing.48. Park Chan-wook has woven another crafty tale of murderous love with visual technical brilliance and a very cheeky sense of humor... (Cannes)
- DirectorDarren AronofskyStarsBrendan FraserSadie SinkTy SimpkinsA reclusive, morbidly obese English teacher attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter.65. Aronofsky stays true to the stage play and creates a heartfelt drama thanks to Brendan Fraser's tour-de-force performance... (Venice)
- DirectorNoah BaumbachStarsAdam DriverGreta GerwigDon CheadleDramatizes a contemporary American family's attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life while grappling with the universal mysteries of love, death, and the possibility of happiness in an uncertain world.78. Baumbach manages to capture the essence of DeLillo's masterwork which means more in today's age after the pandemic and madness we have recently lived through, all done in a somewhat Robert Altman style of overlapping dialogue and Woody Allen's neurotic existential fear of one's own demise, (and a supermarket has more purpose and meaning plus a fabulous musical number for the ending credits)... (Venice)
- DirectorLaura PoitrasStarsNan GoldinDavid VelascoMegan KaplerFollows the life of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty who was greatly responsible for the opioid epidemic's unfathomable death toll.78. The very candid radical life of photographic artist, Nan Goldin, as she takes on a large drug company, involved in creating awareness for the AIDS epidemic, capturing the wild life at the Tin Pan Alley bar, a wild child of the seventies, and very naughty to her parents. A real relic of the last fifty years... (Venice)
- DirectorJames GrayStarsAnne HathawayJeremy StrongBanks RepetaA deeply personal coming-of-age story about the strength of family and the generational pursuit of the American Dream.88. Adolescent life in the early eighties and what it means to be slightly awkward, captured perfectly with adorable real characters that felt like they were part of my childhood madness... (Cannes)
- DirectorAli AbbasiStarsAlice RahimiDiana Al HussenSoraya HelliA journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so called "Spider Killer", who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners.101. Women as second-class citizens in their own country, and even worse if a sex worker in this ugly portrait of the Iranian way of life under strict religious rule... (Cannes)
- DirectorPhyllis NagyStarsElizabeth BanksSigourney WeaverChris MessinaA married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America when she can't get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to find help.122. Wonderful performances and a well told story on the struggle of women controlling their bodies in late Sixties America, with an unassuming middle-class housewife getting involved in the illegal activity... (Berlin)
- DirectorFlorian ZellerStarsVanessa KirbyHugh JackmanLaura DernPeter has his busy life with new partner Beth and their baby thrown into disarray when his ex-wife Kate turns up with their teenage son, Nicholas.143. Somewhat lost in translation from the French stage to Americana cinema, but still whacks an emotional punch for those who have lived the life... (Venice)
- DirectorClaire DenisStarsMargaret QualleyJoe AlwynBenny SafdieA young American journalist stranded in present-day Nicaragua falls for an enigmatic Englishman who seems like her best chance of escape. She soon realizes, however, that he may be in even greater danger than she is.251. Claire Denis always has your interest, this time in the politics of Nicaragua and the lovers caught up in the crossfire... (Cannes)
- DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsViggo MortensenLéa SeydouxKristen StewartHumans adapt to a synthetic environment, with new transformations and mutations. With his partner Caprice, Saul Tenser, celebrity performance artist, publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances.252. Welcome to Cronenberg's recurring nightmare with a twist of dark humor all to do with his fascination of the internal evil wonderment of the human body... (Cannes)