The 5 best movies you missed, pack of beggars (yeah, well, it’s Kalindi)

Have you ever read Blaise Pascal’s Wikipedia page on a Sunday morning?

If the answer is no, then you’re one of those happy people whose traditional Saturday night hangover can’t break your daycare happiness. If the answer is yes, I can’t do anything for you, you have definitely sunk into the dark side of Sunday, where it is good to read any deadly Wikipedia page to further aggravate your state of health. You are probably listening to this text at the same time as a Bach sonata, just to cut the veins of your love for existence.

I tell you this because last Sunday I read 3 times the Wikipedia page of our friend Blaise Pascal and also 5 times that of Ottis Toole, who is commonly called “the Jacksonville cannibal”, so much so that I preferred to do anything but write this column . I also think I did the dishes at some point, namely.

No, but I swear, I’m more tired of making plans to procrastinate than I would have been if I’d just worked, that’s crazy isn’t it? Oh no, it’s only French.

Why this level of laziness? But why am I short of intelligence my little friends! I have shrunk from the locomotive of existence. Like every year in June, my brain is completely empty. Fortunately, the summer holidays are coming. So, as I am a very far-sighted and selfless human being, I have decided to close this first season of The Only Opinion That Matters with a special episode on the best films of this first half of 2022so you can catch up on any film lag.

So here’s the only top that matters:

1- The innocents of the Norwegian Eskil Vogt

If I could never take more than 10 minutes of a Marvel production, the little movie The innocent he knew how to reconcile me with superhero stories. It must be said that these have traded capes and mussel bites against the torments of those who live there when we are not even 10 years old.

The innocent, is the story of Ana, Aisha, Ben and Ida, children who live in a residential complex in Norway and become friends during the holidays. But they are not children like the others. No, they have powers. And if Aisha and Anna use it to help each other, Ben, a child neglected by his mother and visibly disturbed, uses it to take revenge on all those who have hurt him. A wave of violence then engulfed the residential complex, where the murders continued.

With The innocentthe duration of which, however, cannot be ignored, especially in its first third (45 minutes, it is too long to start hostilities) Eskil Vogt makes a silent but unforgettable film about childhood terrors.

2 – Paul Thomas Anderson’s licorice pizza

Change of atmosphere with the film that occupies the second place in my heart: Liquirizia Pizza, by Paul Thomas Anderson, which tells absolutely nothing interesting but fascinates all the same, and is a feat.

“Licorice” means licorice in English.

Licorice, we like to twist or stretch it into long sticks before rolling it on itself to get a flat circle.

Imagine the dark, glittering circles of your childhood in larger, wider, pizza-sized proportions. And miraculously, you get a vinyl. A vinyl that casts Nina Simone or Mason Williams, as in the soundtrack of Licorice pizzaPaul Thomas Anderson’s homage to 1970s pimples, crop tops, California and, of course, first love.

Licorice pizza the story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine, two young Americans struggling with the starter pack that was given to them: hot hormones, rebellious desires, acne and shit haircuts for the year; a strong character, a camera, a big mouth and a crop top for each other.

It is above all the story of a first love that is born like so many others: around music, some party, a shyness hidden under a wick and a false joke. But this first love has something different, otherwise, damn it, we still would have been entitled to a romantic comedy for teenagers all the more agree – that it explores 1970s California rather haunted by the ghost of Hollywood (and its delusions).

Gary, in fact, is a child actor and has already distinguished himself in some films, which he uses to gleefully flirt with Alana, the assistant to the school photographer, 10 years his senior.

And although she refuses to give in to the advances of a “minus”, a bond is created between them that gives new colors to their respective lives.

3 – Spencer, by Pablo Larrain

From Lady Di, you know the paparazzi stalking, her husband’s deception, her quarrels with the Windsor family, her brushed bob and of course her tragic death.

But in what psychological state did her state of a bird to be killed led her? How to go through existence when you are a lamb in a laundromat?

Pablo Larrain offers some answers in his uchronia spencera precious and singular drama (written by the great Steven Knight) that haunts as soon as you give up.

In this very silent fictional biopic, there is only room for Diana and her suffering. The other protagonists are anecdotes, they exist only to serve the descent of their lamb to the slaughterhouse.

Pablo Larrain has chosen to focus the plot only on this character, decimating the first layers of his psyche to examine its depths, in a film that flirts with horror.

It is against a background of disturbing, almost frightening music that he unrolls his (sublime) photograph, and in an almost haunted castle that he loses us as in a labyrinth.

spencer ends up creating more terror than most horror movies, making us fear not only for Diana’s sanity, but for her safety as well.

In this house where the walls have ears, it risks collapsing definitively at any moment, and it is only this suspense that constitutes the entire plot of the biographical film.

The staging of spencer is to do this meticulous, down to the millimeter, and transform the castle into a hellish labyrinth in which we get lost like heroin is lost.

Revealing the classic codes of the historical biopic, the Chilean filmmaker approaches, in terms of style, Yórgos Lánthimos, creator of the precious The lobster, the killing of the sacred deer and above all of The favouritea great film that makes fun of the very usual mechanisms of the historical drama of existing only in a violent and singular form.

4 – Decision to leave, by Park Chan-Wook

Decision to leaveis the new thriller from Park Chan Wook, the brilliant South Korean director who brought the acclaimed to life Miss, old boy And Third.

His new film, more or lesstribute to Cold dessertthe essential work of Hitchcock, tells the story of Hae-Joon, a seasoned detective investigating the suspicious death of a man on top of a mountain. Very quickly, her suspicions fall on the deceased’s partner, a mysterious Chinese woman who speaks strong Korean and bears the marks of her husband’s violence on her body.

Hae-Joon, against all morality and against the good progress of the investigation, falls madly in love with this potential criminal and his whole career begins to crumble. Decision to leave, it is the dullest film of its director, which through a non-linear narrative and some sleeve effects fogs the brain quite a bit. Personally, I didn’t understand everything, especially in the second part of the film, but its ultra-theatrical staging, strikingly beautiful photography and lyrical dialogue make Decision to leave, and despite my knots in the cerebellum, one of the best movies I’ve seen this year, by far! At the same time, on the contrary, there was Brother and sister by Deplechin.

5 – Samhain – You are not my mother

For this fifth and final place, I will completely cheat and tell you about a movie that will be released no earlier than December 2022, but I do what I want because it is my podcast. And above all, I wanted to highlight the singular work of Kate Dolan, an Irish director, whose first feature film is too reserved to be entitled to the respect of the general public in theaters. And it’s a shame why Samhain – You are not my mother is an excellent feminist horror film.

This is the story of Charlotte, an uncomfortable teenager who is going through hell: at school she is bullied by students, at home she takes care of her mother, who is going through an intense phase of depression. One day, her mother runs away for 24 hours and when she comes back, Charlotte feels that even though her face and body are the same as hers, her mother is not her mother. You follow ?

The monster here is the family. The house of horror? The house where we grew up. Hell? Traditions – “Samhain” is also the name of the festival which roughly corresponds to the Anglo-Saxon Halloween.

Staying as close as possible to the daily life of his heroines, why Samhain films only women, except for Charlotte’s uncle, whose plot quickly gets rid of – You are not my mother offers pure horror.

There you have it, my kittens movie buffs. I would like to clarify that the exercise of a top is complicated to make because in reality comparing films, which all belong to different genres, all have different inclinations, and not all have had the same means of production, makes little sense. These 5 films that I have chosen could, in real life, be in 1st place as in place 28 of my personal top, you just had to make choices.

So I would like to pay tribute to all the films that I couldn’t put in this top and that still deserved their place as Murina by Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic, jellyfish by Anita Rocha da Silveira, The Nordic by Robert Eggers Fortune-telling and other fantasies by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Full time fromEric Ghiaia, Macbeth’s tragedyby Joel Coen, The hill where the lionesses roarby Luana Bajrami, passengers of the night by Michael Hers, He shouted by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, The hive by Blerta Basholli, Men by Alex Garland The young lovers by Carine Tardieu and again all those I forget today but will remember when I take a vacation.

In any case, immediately releases Blaise Boring Pascal’s Wikipedia pagefor whom entertainment was man’s worst enemy – which is not surprising given he came from Clermont-Ferrand – and instead run to forget your insignificant human condition, global warming, the decline of women’s rights in the United States and the birth of Valérie Pécresse while she spends the summer at the cinema.

Come on, happy holidays, we find ourselves at the beginning of the school year with a still equally strong hatred for Juliette Armanet’s fringe. And don’t forget: she eventually dies!