With cinema attendance declining and the ever-increasing growth of streaming platforms, Cinema 2022 is proving to be full of pleasant surprises. The Seven Critics Globalism Present their favourites, which stand out among them Hello. Torment in the islandsby Albert Serra, with Benoit Magimel (adapted in three selections); Armageddon timingBy James Gray; Licorice pizzaWritten by Paul Thomas Anderson; Come on, I’ll take you thereby Alain Giraudie (all three are mentioned twice).
The choice of Véronique Cauhapé
1. Armageddon timingby James Gray
2. Come on, I’ll take you thereby Alan Giraudi
3. night 12Dominic Moll
4. full timeWritten by Eric Gravelle
5. my afghan familyby Michaela Pavlatova
The slump in cinema attendance has resulted in a bit of a cold sweat for cinema this year and sparked a lot of analytics. severe (targeting the French model) and more measured (considering in particular the difficult post-pandemic situation) and pessimists (close to declaring the platforms victorious).
However, the cinema did not have to be ashamed of its 2022 production, which presented us with wonderful and beautiful films. Since it is necessary to keep only five of them, let’s quote Back in Childhood (and Give Up Illusions) in 1980’s New York by James Gray (Armageddon timing) and the comedy by Alain Guiraudie who, in Come on, I’ll take you theretook us for a walk in Clermont-Ferrand, just to show us our paranoid nerves and security.
There was also a stopover, dark and cold, in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne (Savoie): a mountain landscape, steep peaks and cliffs where a murder was committed, an abyss opened (What is wrong with men and women?), in a night 12Dominic Moll. An everyday heroine who left us breathless in her insane and repetitive race between Paris and the suburbs (full timeWritten by Eric Gravelle).
while another, having left Prague to follow and marry a young student of Afghan descent in Kabul, had lost his momentum on anti-Afghanistan tracks (my afghan familyWritten by Michaela Pavlatova.
Maroussia Dubreuil’s choice
1. How to save a dead friendby Marusya Syroechkovskaya
2. run awayBy Jonas Boher Rasmussen
3. innocentby Louis Jarrel
4. high school studentChristophe Honoré
5. Almond treesby Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
This year, for many, the filmmakers traced their adolescence as an expanse of utopia perpetually threatened with death. How to save a dead friend This could sum up the top five if indeed youth was such a soulmate that he let us grow so far apart from him.
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