Top 10 Movies 2020

  1. A Hidden Life.
    (Terrence Malick)
  2. I’m Thinking of Ending Things.
    (Charlie Kaufman)
  3. À l’abordage. (All Hands on Deck)
    (Guillaume Brac)
  4. Bergmál. (Echo)
    (Rúnar Rúnarsson)
  5. Samurai Marathon.
    (Bernard Rose)
  6. Small Axe: Lovers Rock & Education.
    (Steve McQueen)
  7. La Fille au Bracelet. (The Girl with the Bracelet)
    (Stéphane Demoustier)
  8. Lynn + Lucy.
    (Fyzal Boukifa)
  9. La Cravate. (The Tie)
    (Etienne Chaillou & Mathias Théry)
  10. Gretel & Hansel.
    (Oz Perkins)


    Would not have been misplaced in my top 10 either:
    Uncut Gems.
    (Josh & Benny Safdie)
    The Devil All the Time.
    (Antonio Campos)
    Effacer l’hisorique. (Delete History)
    (Benoît Delépine & Gustave Kervern)
    Adoration.
    (Fabrice Du Welz)
    Swallow.
    (Carlo Mirabella-Davis)
    1917.
    (Sam Mendes)
    Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets.
    (Turner Ross & Bill Ross IV)
    Mank.
    (David Fincher)
    Ghost Tropic.
    (Bas Devos)
    La Gomera. (The Whistlers)
    (Corneliu Porumboiu)
    Chained for Life.
    (Aaron Schimberg)
    Babyteeth.
    (Shannon Murphy)
    Monos.
    (Alejandro Landes)
    Mother.
    (Kristof Bilsen)
    The Day After I’m Gone.
    (Nimrod Eldar)
    Mijn Rembrandt. (My Rembrandt)
    (Oeke Hoogendijk)
    Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains.
    (Gu Xiaogang)
    Nabarvené ptáče. (The Painted Bird)
    (Václav Marhoul)
    Berlin Alexanderplatz.
    (Burhan Qurbani)
    Ema.
    (Pablo Larraín)
    A Girl Missing.
    (Kōji Fukada)
    Favolacce. (Bad Tales)
    (Damiano & Fabio D’Innocenzo)
    Lara.
    (Jan Ole Gerster)
    On the Rocks.
    (Sofia Coppola)
    Un Pays qui se tient sage. (The Monopoly of Violence)
    (David Dufresne)


    Not bad either/of interest:

    Om det oändliga. (About Endlessness) (Roy Andersson)
    La Vérité. (The Truth) (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
    House of Hummingbird. (Kim Bora)
    Overseas. (Sung-a Yoon)
    The Lost Okorishi. (Abba Makama)
    Vivarium. (Lorcan Finnegan)
    Little Monsters. (Abe Forsythe)
    Systemsprenger. (System Crasher) (Nora Fingscheidt)
    Light of My Life. (Casey Affleck)
    Madre. (Mother) (Rodrigo Sorogoyen)
    The Forty-Year-Old Version. (Radha Blank)
    Beanpole. (Kantemir Balagov)
    Adieu les cons. (Bye Bye Morons) (Albert Dupontel)
    Les choses qu’on dit, les choses qu’on fait. (Love Affair(s)) ( Emmanuel Mouret)
    A Russian Youth. (Alexandr Zolotukhin)
    Deux. (Two of Us) (Filippo Meneghetti)
    Widow of Silence. (Praveen Morchhale)
    Rocks. (Sarah Gavron)
    Un Fils. (A Son) (Mehdi M. Barsaoui)
    Seules les Bêtes. (Only the Animals) (Dominik Moll)
    Adam. (Maryam Touzani)
    Fin de Siglo. (The end of the Century) (Lucio Castro)
    The Wild Goose Lake. (Diao Yi’nan)
    Bad Boys for Life. (Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah)
    Onward. (Dan Scanlon)
    The Grudge. (Nicolas Pesce)
    Escape from Pretoria. (Francis Annan)
    Emma. . (Autumn de Wilde)
    The Hunt. (Craig Zobel)
    Des Hommes. (Home Front) (Lucas Belvaux)
    Été 85. (Summer of 85) (François Ozon)
    The Boys in the Band. (Joe Mantello)
    Öndög (Egg) (Wang Quan’an)
    Birds of Prey. (Cathy Yan)
    The Invisible Man. (Leigh Whannell)
    All of Us. (Willem Wallyn)
    The Farewell. (Lulu Wang)
    Matthias & Maxime. (Xavier Dolan)
    Little Women. (Greta Gerwig)
    Richard Jewell. (Clint Eastwood)
    Un Divan à Tunis. (Arab blues) (Manele Labidi)
    Pinocchio. (Matteo Garrone)
    Jumbo. (Zoé Wittock)
    Soul. (Pete Doctor)
    Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. (George C. Wolfe)
    The Trial of the Chicago 7. (Aaron Sorkin)
    Wasp Network. (Olivier Assayas)
    Muidhond. (Tench) (Patrice Toye)
    Pompei (Anna Falguéres & John Shank)
    Filles de joie. (Anne Paulicevich & Frédéric Fonteyne)