Like every year, Barack Obama unveils the cultural highlights of his last twelve months. Cinema, literature and music, the former president has once again complied with the formalities of end-of-year rankings and gives us very eclectic tops.
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On the cinema side, Obama first liked Drive My Car by the Japanese Ryūsuke Hamaguch, who received the Screenplay Prize at Cannes last May, as well as the musical documentary Summer of Soul (… or when the revolution could not be televised), on the history of the Harlem Cultural Festival which was held in New York in 1969 alongside the Woodstock festival and which no one has ever heard of. He also salutes the remake of West Side Story de Spielberg and put him in third position of his top.
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Like many, the former president was won over by the light of Julie (in 12 chapters), but also by the western of Jane Campion The Power of the Dog or by the improbable duo Nicolas Cage and his truffle pig in Pig. He was also able to discover in theaters the very poetic C’mon C’mon by Mike Mills with Joaquin Phoenix and The Tragedy of Macbeth by Joel Coen, which will be released in January 2022 in France but which already appear in this presidential ranking.
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Obama drops his top movies of 2019, and it is validated
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Barack Obama also shared the 27 songs that accompanied his year, a mix of more or less recent albums, both pop, rock, reggae and rap, including Lil Nas X, Cardi B, Nas and Lizzo. Earlier in the year, the former president unveiled the playlist of his 2021 favorite songs on Spotify.
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