4. Clouds of Sils MariaIFC Films Clouds of Sils MariaThe clouds in the title of
French filmmaker Olivier Assayas’ quietly ravishing film refer to a
meteorological phenomenon that unfolds, when conditions are just right,
along the Maloja Pass in the Swiss Alps. But the movie’s really
spectacular weather emerges in the half-prickly, half-affectionate
interplay between Juliette Binoche, as an anxious, aging actress, and
her flaky-smart millennial assistant, Kristen Stewart. Tension between
the two hangs in the air with a silent crackle, but the bond between
them is definitive and majestic, like thunder.
3. I’ll See You in My Dreams
Bleecker Street
I’ll See You in My Dreams.How do you know when there are
no surprises left in life? The surprise is that…you don’t. In Brett
Haley’s gentle but potent comedy, veteran actress Blythe Danner plays a
seventy-ish retired schoolteacher, long widowed, whose staid life takes a
sharp left when two men appear on the scene almost simultaneously: Pool
cleaner Martin Starr is the kind of platonic friend you meet only once
in a lifetime; silver fox Sam Elliott is the love interest you never
could have planned for.
2. Phoenix
Sundance SelectsPhoenixGerman actress Nina Hoss plays a
concentration-camp survivor whose disfigured face is rebuilt by a
plastic surgeon: if only reclaiming her old life could be as simple. The
husband she still loves, played by Ronald Zehrfeld, chilling in his
seemingly benign allure, has presumed her dead and now doesn’t recognize
her, though he’s not above using her as a pawn in a deceitful
inheritance scheme. Director Christian Petzold has given us a noir
romance of vast, bruised beauty, stylish on the surface but capable of
cutting deep.
1. Spotlight
Open Road Films
Spotlight.In Tom McCarthy’s urgent, rolled-up-shirtsleeve of a movie, detailing how the Boston Globe
uncovered a hydra-headed sex-abuse scandal within the city’s Catholic
Archdiocese, reporters don’t just work the phones and trawl the web:
They actually leave their desks. Though it’s set in the early 2000s,
this isn’t a picture about how journalism used to matter, but a
reaffirmation that it must always matter, whether the story emerges in
ink or pixels.
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