The New York Times released, this Monday (6), its list of the ten best films of 2022. Below, check out the full ranking, their respective synopses and where to watch them:
- 1. "EO" (Jerzy Skolimowski)
It follows a donkey who encounters both good and bad people on his travels, experiences joy and pain, exploring a vision of modern Europe through his eyes. (soon in theaters)
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- 2. “Little Mama” (Céline Sciamma)
Nelly, an eight-year-old girl, has just lost her grandmother, and she helps her parents to clean up the house where the deceased used to live. She explores the residence and surroundings where a tree house is built. One day, the girl meets a girl her age in the forest. The two discover they have much more to one than they imagined. (Prime Video, Apple TV, YouTube and Google Play Movies & TV)
- 3. "Not! Do not look!" (Jordan Peele)
Caretakers at a California horse ranch encounter a mysterious force that affects human and animal behavior. (Prime Video, Apple TV, YouTube and Google Play Movies & TV)
- 4. "No Bears" (Jafar Panahi)
Two parallel love stories where the partners are thwarted by hidden and unavoidable obstacles. The narrative presents the force of superstition and the mechanics of power. (not available)
- 5. “Kimi: Someone Is Listening” (Steven Soderbergh)
What if every breath, every sound, every moment was recorded? During the Covid-19 pandemic in Seattle, an agoraphobic tech worker discovers evidence of a violent crime while reviewing a data stream and encounters resistance and bureaucracy when she tries to report it to her company. To get involved, she realizes she must face her greatest fear by stepping out of her apartment and into the city streets, which are filled with protesters after the City Council passes a law restricting the movements of the homeless population. (HBO Max, Apple TV, YouTube and Google Play Movies & TV)
- 6. “The Eternal Daughter” (Joanna Hogg)
A middle-aged woman and her elderly mother must confront long-buried secrets when they return to the family's former home, once a stately mansion turned nearly empty hotel, but full of mysteries. (not available)
- 7. “The Happening” (Audrey Diwan)
O Acontecimento is adapted from the novel by Annie Ernaux, and takes place in France in 1963, even when abortion was illegal in the country. Anne is a student with a promising future, and when it is discovered that she is pregnant, she immediately insists on termination, but her doctor warns her of the unforgiving laws against seeking or aiding abortions, and her attempts to reach out to her closest friends are rebuffed. As the weeks go by, without support or access, an increasingly desperate Anne steadfastly persists in seeking any possible means of terminating the pregnancy in hopes of reclaiming her future. The film directly and graphically details not only the dangers and indignities of Anne's harrowing quest, but also the indifference surrounding her situation, immersing us in her character's certainty that failure to terminate this pregnancy would surely be the end of her life. life too. (HBO Max)
- 8. “Decide to Leave” (Park Chan-wook)
In Decision to Leave, Hae-joon (Park Hae-il) is the youngest inspector in the Busan police department. On weekends he lives in a misty seaside town with his beloved wife, but during weekdays in town he is so devoted to his work that he keeps watch every night instead of sleeping. But his life begins to get complicated when the body of a climber is found at the base of a steep rocky mountain. After a crazy episode where Hae-joon and his boss use a motorized pulley to drive up the mountainside, they wonder if the dead man fell or was pushed. The prime suspect is the man's widow, Seo-rae (Tang Wei), a beautiful Chinese immigrant who doesn't seem the least bit upset by his death. But could Seo-rae, a caretaker adored by her elderly clients, be the prime suspect in the murder. She couldn't have committed murder, could she? (not available)
- 9. “Expedition Content” (Erns Karel e Veronika Kusumaryati)
In 1961, filmmaker Robert Gardner organized the Harvard Peabody Expedition to Dutch New Guinea (present-day West Papua). Funded by the Dutch colonial government and private donations, and consisting of several of the wealthiest members of American society wielding 16 mm film cameras, still cameras, reel-to-reel recorders, and a microphone, the expedition settled for five months in the Valley of Baliem, among the Hubula people (also known as the Dani). This resulted in Gardner's highly influential film Dead Birds, two books of photographs, Peter Matthiessen's book Under the Mountain Wall, and two ethnographic monographs. Michael Rockefeller, a fourth-generation member of the Rockefeller (Standard Oil) family, was tasked with taking pictures and recording sounds in and around the Hubula world. Expedition Content is a work of augmented sound posed from the archive's 37 hours of tape documenting the strange encounter between the expedition and the Hubula people. The play reflects on intertwined and complex historical moments in the development of approaches to multimodal anthropology, in the lives of Hubula and Michael, and in the continuing history of colonialism in West Papua. (not available)
- 10. “All The Beauty and the Bloodshed” (Laura Poitras)
An epic and moving story about artist and activist Nan Goldin, told through interviews, photographs and rare footage of her fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for America's opioid crisis. Directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, the film weaves together Goldin's past and present, the deeply personal and the urgently political of her actions and expositions. (not available)
information from The New York Times
Featured image: Nan Goldin
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