An annual classic. The review of the best films of the year, the Oscars 2022. Or at least, the films that the hollywood film academy tells us that they are some of the best movies of the year. But from here we make our particular review of that list in which one is always missing. From here we analyze them from the point of view of the landscapes that have taught us, the new worlds, or new ways of looking at old worlds. The trips in which they have embarked us, and we also talk about temporary trips.
THE POWER OF THE DOG
Some outdated purist has been annoyed that an American Western movie will not be shot in the American West. As if that made it less of a western. As if that made its protagonists less cowboys. That is really what those who have complained senselessly mean. But we, in fact, appreciate that the great Jane Campion (I wish they let her make more movies) has taken us to the incredible plain of Maniototo in her native New Zealand. There, in the otago Region, she shot practically all of this story originally set in the novel by Thomas Savage in Montana.
Belfast by Kenneth Branagh.
BELFAST
Kenneth Brangh has filmed a love letter to his childhood, a love letter to belfast and a love letter to peace and union. This is a very personal film, based on his own story, how he and his family ended up emigrating from Belfast to England fleeing conflict. It is a tribute to those who stayed, those who left, those who returned and those who did not survive it. It fits a black and white Belfast, in addition, in which many neighborhood lives in other western cities could be recognized. Tell me Kenneth.
CODA.
CODA
New England fishery. None of those posh East Coast pictures. A working New England, of wooden houses, porches overlooking the sea. the movie that can be the surprise at the Oscars 2022 it is a tender trip to that part of the US that we saw in a grayer and darker way in Manchester facing the sea.
Gary, the king of the San Fernando Valley.
PIZZA LICORICE
On the other side of the country. Although not attached to the sea, there it is san fernando valley, beloved birthplace of the filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson. The place that inspires him and where he finds stories that inspire the rest of the world: like this first romance between two unlikely protagonists, Alan and Gary. Always running. Always smiling.
Julie, the worst person in the world.
THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD
Another that has inspired us to run, even if it is not always in a positive way: Julie (Renate Reinsve), the protagonist of the Norwegian film Joachim Trier, that not only has sneaked into the category of best foreign language film but has also scratched its candidacy for best original screenplay. In addition to everything that this millennial may have awakened, we are left with sunrises and sunsets Oslo summer.
Ariana DeBose for the win.
WEST SIDE STORY
Don't miss a beautiful New York at the Oscars. This year is especially colorful and it sounds very good, it is the best possible version that he has done steven spielberg of a classic that needed some finishing touches. We will celebrate, above all, the almost sung (let me) Oscar for the supporting actress Ariana DeBose, following in the footsteps of its predecessor Rita Moreno, who 50 years won it for the same role, and she was the first Latina to do so.
Olivia Colman, always inspiration.
THE DARK DAUGHTER
A vacation like Olivia Coleman, in some lost island of greece. A vacation that only forces us to put on our swimsuit, all day if necessary. Being on the beach until the sun goes down or a Sunday family comes to interrupt our calm. One of those vacations that even confronts us with the past. But otherwise, until the end with this movie, Maggie Gyllenhaal's directorial debut, he deserved so much more.
Thimothée Chalamet and Rebecca Ferguson on Arrakis.
DUNE
the desert Arrakis dune of Denis Villeneuve is a puzzle of four different locations: Wadi Rum in Jordan, the desert outside of Abu Dhabi, the northwest coast of Norway, and some studios in Budapest. And, of course, a lot of digital effect. It is to be hoped that the film achieves good results in technical sections.
Sorrentine in Naples.
IT WAS THE HAND OF GOD
Another who looked at his past to sign his most personal film: Paolo Sorrentino. In It was the hand of God returns to Naples to recount his adolescence, his happy moments and the saddest, with the tragedy of his parents. Intimate memories mixed with community souvenirs, those of the arrival of Maradona, a local god who changed the city forever.
Without moving from Italy, we are also left with a walk through a more cheerful and summery Italy in Luca. In animation, there are interesting journeys: colorists like the one in Charm and difficult but necessary as the flee.
Charm.