Our brightest film buffs weigh in on their favourite films to hit the Australian big screen this year.
From Wicked to Zone of Interest, from Challengers to All of Us Strangers, these are the best films of 2024 From Wicked to Zone of Interest, from Challengers to All of Us Strangers, these are the best films of 2024 May December director Todd Haynes says he was excited to read a script that took the toxic ugliness of tabloid culture and used it "as raw material for a really meditative story that is ultimately about the act of telling stories".
Like its melancholic main character, Rohrwacher's film traverses different worlds: that of the living and the dead; the black market and the art world; rural poverty and industrial prosperity. La Chimera's crumbling villages and candlelit tombs are captured in gauzy, grainy frames, with cinematographer Hélène Louvart evoking the sensation of unearthing lost memories.
But it's superstar Natalie Portman — as the parasitic actress who becomes entangled in a Persona-like relationship with the woman she's playing — who proves to be the real revelation. In a career-best performance, she enacts a slippery pantomime of desire that gradually becomes inseparable from the real thing.If hearing a jaunty instrumental cover of 50 Cent's classic P.I.M.P.
Luca Guadagnino's newest film takes the majestic back-and-forth of professional tennis to hyper-erotic heights. One thing's for certain: after the movie's climactic showdown, you'll never look at a tennis ball in the throat of a racquet the same way again.The film centres on two maladjusted teens, Owen and Maddy , who spend their waking moments in the thrall of a TV show.Director Jane Schoenbrun’s creative ethos is best described in their own words: "The kind of cinema that I really believe in is a cinema that lingers — that says something that's not as simple as like a moral.
The epitaph may as well be a shorthand encapsulation of Jonathan Glazer's eerie, disquieting, stark film The Zone of Interest. A Nazi family frolic in the river and live a life of domestic idyll in the pastoral greenery bordering a concentration camp, even as large gas chambers choke up plumes of smoke that blanket their daily activities and the uncanny rumble of a relentless death factory punctuate their everyday.
Its titular character is a confident, fun-loving, twenty-something stripper with a thick Brooklyn accent working at a club in Manhattan.As the club's sole Russian-speaking dancer, Ani looks after Russian clients, including the goofy teenage son of an oligarch, Vanya . Their chemistry is palpable, and after a whirlwind week, the two elope in Vegas.
Edward jumps at the chance to try an experimental treatment that would alleviate him of his condition and, when it inexplicably works, he resurrects himself as Guy. His newfangled life is thrown into disarray when he sees Ingrid casting for a play she's written called Edward, ostensibly based on him.
Andrew Scott turned in career-best work as a screenwriter who returns to his hometown seeking inspiration — and discovers his dead parents have mysteriously returned. Given all that, it's almost a miracle that Wicked soars as high as it does, taking the beloved musical and transforming it to meet the scope of the big screen. The world feels more expansive, the emotions deeper, and — in aligning the audience with the perspective of its misfit antagonist — the film has a power that's electrifying.Fans of the mega-popular stage musical Wicked have been waiting years for a film version to hit screens.
Anchored by two unlikely friends and the film’s co-directors — Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham and Palestinian lawyer Basel Adra, though he never gets a chance to practise — No Other Land zeros in on West Bank's southern region of Masafer Yatta. Helming Australia's biggest and most expensive film to date, director George Miller unleashes every set shot or action premise he could never quite get into the series due to previous budget or tech constraints. It's a beast.
Best Films Of The Year La Chimera May December Anatomy Of A Fall Challengers I Saw The TV Glow The Zone Of Interest Anora A Different Man All Of Us Strangers Wicked No Other Land Furiosa The Substance Dune 2 Megalopolis Josh O'connor Sandra Huller
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