Continuation and end of top 2010 with 10 other films this year will be remembered. Last minute surprise, I had the unexpected opportunity to fill a delay in French film that comes directly from the list and messes up a little pre-established order.
The top 5 winners are here .
6 - Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich) dint of truster places each year with their annual production, we almost let the new Pixar, following the late
Toy Story 2 released in 1999. On board were Lee Unkrich, accustomed studios, the project is in good hands as soon go bankrupt after its gestation Disney on board with a new team of developers. Playing with a tenuous balance between nostalgia and the need to move forward, taking in large widths of the universal themes of friendship and the need to stand together against adversity, the film takes on registers known with a new environment and a familiar world. After a classic scenario, the film is suddenly very strong in his dive to the movie to escape, to a point of no return for the protagonists of the story. Adding echoes to strange adventures, one is suddenly faced with the inconceivable, bend of a hallucinatory sequence: lowering the arms, the heroes are suddenly resigned to their situation.
And finally see this fool unconscious Andy moved to the idea of leaving his band toy us back to our simple viewing position, with a big pinch in the heart.
7 - Bright Star (Jane Campion) The heart-breaking in costume.
A Perfect Couple (Abbie Cornish and Ben Wishaw).
A little cat trying to catch butterflies.
Wind in the curtains.
The best poster of the year.
We talked about it here .
8 - An Education (Lone Scherfig) Already in the top of Tarantino last year, the film is released in France until the beginning of year, allowing a late development. Written by Nick Hornby (specialist, small emotional torment), the film echoes some of England shortly before the Swinging Sixties having carried very far. There is a Peter Sarsgaard ideal son-in spite of the secrets surrounding it, becomes infatuated with a young girl ready to break free, we will not let go an inch between home and school barren dusty. In this column
bittersweet, three beloved actresses: Carey Mulligan, whose pretty face saving plays to its advantage in this plot never boring but somewhat agreed, Olivia Williams (
neglected wife in The Ghost Writer CEO dominatrix in the
series Dollhouse ) advised by prof who does not do it and finally the beautiful Rosamund Pike, unfortunately, perfect in the role of brainless idiot.
In this chronicle of an era and a girl deceived, director just make a film of classical learning to walk the energy of its actors. No major surprises ahead, despite the characters addressed (Alfred Molina, just trying to be a good father), all lost at the turn of the century, all confined to stick to what is expected of them rather than go ahead ...
* The woman of the year in cinema is Carey Mulligan, everywhere: overwhelming at each occurrence in the very clinical
Wall Street 2 of Oliver Stone's cameo at the limit tortured
Brothers and finally star
in Never Let Me Go , Mark Romanek clipper movie that will do us the honor of a theatrical release this year (
trailer).
9 - El Secreto sus ojos / In Her Eyes (Juan José Campanella) In 1974, Benjamin Esposito, investigate the brutal murder of a young woman. 25 years later, the book he wrote, inspired by the case, the plunges in the case of Argentina's troubled years of lead and unacknowledged love for his colleague.
Played both ways temporal
In his eyes draws coverage to him by the actor Ricardo Darin, on the film from beginning to end. With a hyper structure rigorous in its construction, the management of its characters and flashbacks, the film takes insurance and an incredible emotional scale as it moves. Pantyhose always the fate of his characters lost in the turmoil of an era, all forever haunted by the face of an innocent whose life was stolen, the film goes innocently into the genre film footage at the end. A great success, but perfectly executed classic.
bonus, a clip technically amazing, worthy of a De Palma, beginning high in the sky and end face against the ground.
10 - The Other Guys / Very Bad Cops in VF (Adam McKay) The reunion of tasty Adam McKay and Will Ferrell, after two films
Stepbrothers a good memory; this time they join the services of Mark Wahlberg, in a state of grace in recent movies (The Fighter
, We Own the Night, The Departed ) before falling to arm shortcuts on the buddy-movie high debilitating trend.
Opening the ball, Samuel L. Jackson and The Rock are very strong and one can legitimately ask what could have been the movie with them rather than the other two losers, but it is clear that the film remains very strong even without them. Then we attended the "exploits" of these two badass cops, a sequence which could have broken the whole balance of the film sends the strawberry and reboot as ever with a transfer of power to Ferrell and Wahlberg who will never let pressure.
Beyond hollywodienne machinery, the director captures a few perfect moments of comedy where all the actors exclusively responsible. Mickael Keaton (not seen enough) Marlon Wayans (and his last speech to howl with laughter), to Eva Mendes, very ease in this orgy of stupidity, everything seems perfectly contribute to the success of the Wild One. Ultimately, The Other Guys
is a huge farce in which two Rayon Weirdoes, coupled with an inventory of tax evasion as a generic (although better than Wall Street 2
)
It is likely that film aging poorly against its gags and situations, but
The Other Guys is so effective on the spot that he willingly grant the benefit of the doubt. Moreover, given the competition (including
Get Him to the Greek and his last hour, off-topic),
The Other Guys fits perfectly distance, goes astray in a grotesque constant, and yields nothing to cul-blessed.
11 - At close range (Fred Cavayé) Samuel has a full life. It will soon be a nurse, and his wife Nadia is expecting their first child. All goes well until his wife is kidnapped before his eyes and ask him to escape a wounded prisoner, under guard in hospital where he works. From there, nothing goes.
On this premise very thin, Fred Cavayé (
For Her ) fits a simple but suspenseful very effective when Gilles Lelouche, desperate protagonist, finds himself an actor chase stretched to retrieve his wife, without really knowing where the will to carry out its actions. The feeling of empathy for the character rises to a crescendo as the noose tightens around him, where his pregnant wife over-emphasizing the effect of dull explosion that caused his running in a Paris covered by cameras surveillance, police and the problems of all kinds. Some large facilities distort a little but finally it extended considerably lessens the tension impact. Fully assumed as a thriller, or gender, without ramifications scenario,
At close range is an excellent initiative movie, followed closely by
Prey Eric Valette, where Albert Dupontel will also travel to many feet.
12 - Fantastic Mr Fox (Wes Anderson) After a few films, Wes Anderson digested grammar independent hipster he helped create, so much so his latest project could not be expressed only under a new framework: the animated stop-motion technique laborious and today neglected for the film synthesis (his official successor), whose sovereign is Pixar. Based on a book by Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr Fox revives The Wind in the Willows telling the adventures of a cunning fox aspiring to regain its animality, stifled by the impeccable suits he wears. Funny, ancestry between social research (the move to a better "neighborhood") and need for recognition from his peers (Mr Fox seems manageable, juggle), fox parte rob local farmers ... In the end, regardless of the alarming rumors indicating the time of filming that the director was never present on stage, preferring to lead these leaders from his home through Skype ... There is little doubt that the magic of the movie stems from the expertise of the technicians in charge of the film, Anderson finally there that brings prestige and a sacred voice cast including George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwatrzmann (present since Rushmore and flying on his own in the excellent series Bored to Death ), Bill Murray and even Jarvis Cocker time of a song (the sequence was indeed no other ambition than to signal the presence the singer of Pulp the credits ...) The film asks all the time but the new yoke and playground unearthed by the director (half film and puppet animation) is the ideal place to express the typical lag Film Wes Anderson. The patter of George Clooney, who came to show off her sweet voice, is equally crucial. Theatricality particularly developed in the previous films of the man here perfectly suits the film stop-motion. The famous face plane or side of the director are a logical unstoppable once animated the little beasts on the screen. It also feels Aardman Studios (Wallace and Gromit's ) a little nervous about having to compete with such a beautiful film, if by chance the studio was experimenting brave new adventure. Behind the pose and the constant game, Fantastic Mr Fox is stunningly beautiful, that look hand-made has much to do. All eyes on the screen, we are fascinated by what is happening and the attention to smallest details (hair, smoke, water, anything goes). However the film never really seems to know how to finish, and the script provided to cause turmoil for adventure to prolong the pleasure ... 
13 - Piranha 3D (Alexandre Aja) The film of the summer, regressive and hilarious. Produced by Dimension Films and directed by Alexandre Aja French already responsible for the remake of
The Hills Have Eyes, Piranha 3D did not inspire much because of its stench Z and opportunistic. With its premise as silly endearing (prehistoric piranhas wake up and put a small port city in blood during Spring Break), Aja's Piranha remake of James Cameron and put their heart's content. The poster says it all: everything is in honor and good humor, with Elizabeth Shue, survivor of
Hollow Man of Verhoeven, the has-been Jerry O'Connell detestable as possible, with as Christopher Lloyd mode
Back to the Future and even Richard Dreyfuss opening.
Piranha 3D remains a hyper film tendentious, solicit to the wind. The presence of porn actresses (including Riley Steele) in the cast leaves no doubt about the company: it explodes, shoot the baffles at the bottom, all in an orgy of boobs and buttocks that would not Pure18 denied producers. Eli Roth (Hostel
) is also part of the thing, as it advance, abuts its cast, focuses on the music screams and ends in a small friendly
survival.
14 - The American (Anton Corbijn) The second film by Anton Corbijn (Control
) begins with the observation that makes a terrible man, if he wants (to) live There will succeed only by remaining isolated. Hunted, he takes refuge in a village in Italy where patiently waits, infatuated with a prostitute, sympathizes with a priest ... Nothing too exciting a priori (these situations are binding on him) except that the character staged by director is sufficiently mysterious that attention to his comings and goings, his activities, his last "job" ... With its completion
millimeter and perfectly refined (no effects unnecessarily required), the film takes its time slowly but never cold and clinical in its approach to the everyday life of a man prowling the survival and sense of meticulousness anticipation go hand in hand towards a common destiny. The sober realization even tends to make the warm company, and makes up the intensity every flash of violence or continuance of mankind. We suspected, the true originality is not here implementation and nobody will be surprised to find a final plan similar to
Control.
Tragedy as a trademark? Expected result, Mr. Corbijn.
♥ Blow of heart: 15 - Easy A (Will Gluck) " John Hughes Did Not live my life." These words, spoken at midterm Easy A by Emma Stone full confession speaks volumes about the basic intentions of the film and how the American director has left its mark in the 80s. Easy A is - Roughly - the story of Olive, a talented schoolgirl who, regretting the absence of romance in his world will try to develop under absolute opposite: succumbing to peer pressure, she pretends to drag the college , it entertains and attends to his own change of status in a dehumanized American campus (one thinks especially Saved! Brian Dannelly) Since the heyday of John Hughes, manners have changed, they speak openly of sleeping with boys (and not with "the" boy), new technologies have invaded relations (they determine the too), something that adds a lot more direct confrontation with other dogs - not to mention adults, although this present time. If this finally popularized by modern debauchery too many movies to watch very superficial, it is now, yet lived: to live his life as teenager in 2010, is no easier than in 1985. Far from being shy, heroin is as sensitive and intelligent, which does not detract from its charm. The banter Emma Stone does everything to pass, the replicas are scathing and malignant, and charisma of the miss goes beyond simple screen role. We can rejoice more the ability to play Gwen Stacy in the reboot of Spider-Man ! The film itself provided some very good moments of comedy which also Easy A the most cruel joke in high school since Mean Girls. For once, even the gallery of secondary characters, mostly adults, are interesting. They are all at one time or another interfere with the story, like so many tags on the road. Thomas Haden Church is in very good teacher but joined the parents of Olive, played by Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson get all the attention, present, open, and sometimes hilarious well grounded. short, pleasant surprise, "almost no guilty pleasure" we say to apologize to the purists. It emerges not look wet or even completely charmed but the intention and effort is commendable, and the recovery of Deep Purple (echo direct Breakfast Club) at the end of the film arise as much detail saying the story of the relationship between teens tends to repeat itself, decade after decade, always with the same melancholy. Released on 5 January in France (
trailer ) under the title "All for
an A .
Why not Kick-Ass? working all this: unlike the comics, which qu'outrancier well, keeps a certain course of action, the film does not hesitate to To switch the main character in a Grand Guignol of the lowest: the mere teen geek kills bad guys "in his later movies, in cold blood and with an icy joy. Therefore, any psychological bond with him is impossible, and here while the narrative path, thrown into oblivion. The sequence of the jet-pack tries to play down the matter but the damage is done, with a responsibility échoie on the frail shoulders of the character. remains a superb role for Nicolas Cage (diction strange, psychologically unstable), with whom he holds in
Bad Lieutenant.
In films I had to see things better to consider include
Enter the Void, Tamara Drewe
,
Robin Hood, Esther
,
Rare Exports, Uncle
Boonma ,
Mammuth ,
Agora,
Goats Pentagon ,
I Love You Philip Morris Otherwise, it was also treated to some big void in the job: Salt
,
Clash of the Titans, When in Rome (my love for Veronica Mars took me very far, this movie should never go out to the movies pity, despite some references to Napoleon Dynamite
).
During that time, we are still awaiting the release of the score by John Murphy, composed
Sunshine!
soon for a good year movie, already assured by Terrence Malick and the Coen brothers.
