The American magazine The Hollywood Reporter recently ranked the 50 best films of the 21st century. Here are the 5 feature films that come out on top.
While several post-pandemic feature films have breathed new life into the film industry like “Barbie” this summer, or “Avatar 2” last year, which films marked the first quarter of the 21st century? ? A little before the hour, the critics of The Hollywood Reporter established the list of the best films released between 2000 and 2021. French director Agnès Varda is in this top 5.
«Mulholland Drive», de David Lynch (2001)
Winner of the prize for directing at Cannes in 2001 and the César for best foreign film the following year, “Mulholland Drive” by David Lynch climbed to fifth position. Entered into the pantheon of masterpieces for many moviegoers, this psychological thriller starring Naomi Watts and Laura Harring features an amnesiac woman who survived a car accident. While a young actress aspiring to fame discovers her terrified, the two women will try to understand what happened, between riddles and clues.
“Zodiac” by David Fincher (2007)
Camped by Mark Ruffalo, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anthony Edwards and Robert Downey Jr., “Zodiac” by David Fincher is in a very good position. In this captivating thriller, the director of “Seven”, “Fight Club” or even “The Curious Story of Benjamin Button” stages the hunt for a serial killer, a specialist in encrypted messages playing cat and mouse with the press and the police, and having really raged in the 1960s in the San Francisco area. A hunt that has become obsessive for those who led it like Robert Graysmith, press cartoonist played on screen by Jake Gyllenhaal.
“The Gleaners and the Gleaner”, by Agnès Varda (2000)
One of the works of the emblematic New Wave filmmaker Agnès Varda, who died in March 2019, rose to third place in this ranking. This is the documentary “The Gleaners and the Gleaner”, which follows and pays tribute to the gleaners, who by necessity or by choice scavenge and collect what society throws away.
“Inside Llewyn Davis”, by Joel and Ethan Coen (2013)
Released in 2013, the eighteenth film by the Coen brothers ranks second. With “Inside Llewyn Davis”, the directors of “Fargo”, “The Big Lebowski” or even “No country for old men” draw up, over a week, the portrait of a young folk musician in the early 1960s in Greenwich village as he tries to break through, scraping by as best he can, going from disappointment to disappointment. The film won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013.
«Yi Yi», d’Edward Yang (2000)
The feature film by Taiwanese director Edward Yang, who died in 2007, tops the list. Awarded the prize for directing at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000, “Yi Yi” tells the story of a Taiwanese family led by NJ, forty-something, father of two, who at the age of 40 decides to find his childhood sweetheart .
2023-08-20 06:02:13
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