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Movie of the year: The Return(Vozvrashcheniye)

I cant really say movie of the year since it was released in 2003 but who cares.

Two pre-teen boys are shocked when their father returns home to them and their mother, after being inexplicably away for 12 years. He takes them on a road trip the next day. This movie is exceptional and is one of the most strikingly beautiful films I’ve seen in a long time.

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The child actors are so incredible it is almost discomforting. The cinematography is simply breathtaking. The film explores the fear and courage that results when children are suddenly faced with unknown horrors of the adult world.

Andrei Zvyagintsev is truly a gifted film maker and i will shortly write something about his newest movie “The Banishment” too.

The Banishment (Izgnanie)

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

This second feature film from Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev had a lot to live up to considering how great his 2003 debut, The Return, was. I was really a bit skeptical going in because the advanced reviews had been mixed, and I really didn’t know how a director who had made such brilliant use of the Russian landscape as almost a perpetually menacing character in its own right, would handle what sounded like a very indoor domestic drama.Boy was I wrong to doubt.

Movie of the Year

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Well I Know the year is not over,and there are many more great movies to still be enjoyed this year ,but i doubt that any will be on the same level as The Queen. Truly captivcating and entertaining!

What an amazing Film; MirrenÂ whoÂ goyÂ theÂ Oscar and Blair was brilliantly portrayed too but best of all was the cinematography – the highlands, the stag – transcendental and wonderfully conceived and executed. Best film I’ve seen in ages. It perfectly portrayed the balance between

the traditionalist monarchy on the one hand and the new modernising labour government on the other. The dialogue between the main protagonists was excellent and there were also some wonderful one-liners; “tell him to hang on” in reference to a ‘phone call from Gordon Brown was the one I enjoyed the best. All the royals were well portrayed and it was a nice touch keeping the princes, William + Harry hidden from view.

The last king of Scotland

Forest Whitaker gives a titanic performance as Idi Amin, Ugandan dictator who rose to power in the 1970s. James McAvoy plays Nicholas Garrigan, a Scottish physician who travels to Uganda for the adventure and wins Amin’ s affection

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s, becoming his personal doctor.

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Garrigan enters into a moral crisis as he begins to realize the kind of man Amin is, and begins to fear for his own life as events spiral more and more out of his control.

Whitaker seizes the chance to play this larger than life character and runs with it — I’ve never seen Whitaker give so convincing and transforming a performance. However, as good as he is, McAvoy impressed me more. His performance as Garrigan is not as showy, but it’s much more textured and subtle, and his character has the bigger arc from start to finish. Gillian Anderson(the old x filesÂ star)Â also does terrific work in a small role as a fellow doctor, who understands things about Amin and the African culture that Garrigan does not.

It is certainly not a feel good movie,unless it makes you feel good to watch a great actor like Whitaker give the performance of his life…But one of the better ones this year!