Previously, IndieWire, the authoritative independent film platform in the film industry, named the best movie of the year in 2021. The first 10 films will be reviewed and interested viewers will be able to watch them.
1. "The Power of Dogs"
Douban score: 7.4
Reasons to take stock: Be patient, the middle and later sections will tell you what gentle killing is.
Synopsis: The charismatic rancher Phil Burbank makes those around him fearful and fearful. When his brother brings home his new wife and her son, Phil torments them in every way until one day he discovers that he also has a glimmer of longing for love.
2. "Licorice Pizza"
Douban score: None
Reasons to take stock: nostalgic, fun.
Synopsis: Set in the 1970s, the film revolves around a high school student who tells the story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and falling in love in the San Fernando Valley in 1973.
3. "Driving My Car"
Douban score: 8.1
Reasons for inventory: The stage form and the character's emotions are chimeric together, with the dramatic lines, with a unique flavor.
Synopsis: Stage actor Jia Fu (about 60 years old) knows that his wife who is also an actor and the actor of the same play have regular meetings, but pretends not to know, playing a loving couple in front of the world. After his wife's death, he hired a female driver, Dori. During the relationship, he began to gradually communicate his inner world with Dori, asking whether his deceased wife had to maintain a relationship with "the man".
4. "Escape"
Douban score: 8.2
Reason for inventory: Animating refugee stories.
Synopsis: Ami, who is of Afghan descent, has taken root in Denmark and is about to marry a same-sex partner. In the face of happiness within reach, there are inexplicable knots in the heart, and the memories of childhood suffering still linger when they grow up. As a child, he was infatuated with ShangeWenton, but in the chaotic world, the peaceful life of his hometown was destroyed by war, and he fled to Moscow with his family and then smuggled to Copenhagen with great hardships. Recording real people and real events in the form of animation, the director let his friend Ami pour out his secret intentions, recall the days of upheaval and displacement, and the corrupt police and cold-blooded snakeheads he encountered. In the end, what cannot be escaped is the secret that has been pressing on the heart. The Sindans Film Festival World Documentary Jury Prize.
5. "Titanium"
Douban score: 6.8
Reasons for taking stock: a very raw movie.
Synopsis: The story takes place at an airport where customs inspectors find a young man with a blue nose and swollen face. The young man claimed to be a child who disappeared a decade ago, Adrien Legrand. For his father, Vincent, it marked the end of a long nightmare that finally brought his son home. Meanwhile, a series of horrific murders have put enormous pressure on the area, while alexia, the model in the car showroom, has all the characteristics of a targeted victim.
6. "Summer of Soul Music"
Douban score: 8.3
Take stock of the reasons: sight and sound gluttony.
Synopsis: The Harlem Cultural Festival and the famous Woodstock Festival took place in the same summer, with more than 300,000 people attending, but such a grand festival rarely received mainstream media coverage. The documentary reviews the pomp and circumstances of the time.
7. "Memory"
Take stock of the rationale: A surreal journey.
Synopsis: Thai director Apichatpong Welashagu will create a new film [Memoria]. Apichatpong has recently completed the creation of the script. The director said of the new film: "In the seventies and eighties, Colombia was more violent than it is now, and when you were driving, you would encounter traffic paralysis caused by an explosion, and you didn't know anything. My films are about people's imaginations and fears of things. "The heroine of the film is a foreign woman living in Colombia, and because she always hallucinates, she tries to find the root cause of the hallucinations, which takes her to a small town, and all the secrets have yet to be revealed. Filming will begin in Colombia and is expected to be released next year.
8. "Card Settlers"
Douban score: 6.0
Reason for taking stock: unprecedented composure.
Synopsis: Ter suri only wants to play cards, and Chik is a fragile and irritable young man who is seeking help to carry out his revenge plan against the military colonel (Dafoe). Thiel also saw hope of revenge in Cheek. Supported by the mysterious gambling financier La Linda (Hades), Thiel leads Cheek between casinos until the trio sets their sights on winning the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. But it turns out that keeping Cheek focused won't work, and Thiel is dragged back into the dark shadows of his past.
9. "The Green Knight"
Douban score: 6.5
Reason for inventory: Partial mythological logic.
Synopsis: The film is based on the story Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, which tells the story of King Arthur holding a banquet at his court. A knight in green came to challenge the Knight of the Round Table: who would dare to cut off his head on the spot and ask him to return the axe a year later. Gawain accepted the challenge and cut off the head of the Green Knight. The body, which was still alive, picked up its head and returned to the green church. A year later, Gao Wen made a promise to find the Green Knight.
10. "Parallel Mother"
Douban score: 7.2
Take stock of the reason: Can tell stories.
Synopsis: Two dying mothers are admitted to a hospital ward by chance, one is Janice (Penelope Cruz), who is about to enter middle age, and although she is unexpectedly pregnant, she is ecstatic about the arrival of a new life; the other is a young Anna (Milena Smit) who is anxious, scared, and even full of traumatic emotions in the face of the unimaginable mother's life. As the two walked slowly through the hospital corridor like sleepwalks to pour out their emotions to each other, Janice tried to encourage Anna, connecting them closely during the conversation, and such a relationship would decisively change their lives.