YES 5 BLOODS
One of the best films of this year came out in June with the signature of one of the craziest directors ever. Spike Lee marked 2020 with a slightly different film about the Vietnam War, ‘Yes 5 Bloods. The film follows four African-Americans, veterans returning to Vietnam to find their fallen leader and the promised treasure. Along the way, they face nature, but also the moral chaos that rules Vietnam.
NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS
The film by American director Eliza Hittman introduces us to 17-year-old Autmn who lives in Pennsylvania and unplannedly becomes pregnant. Because the laws in the place where he lives require his parents' permission to have an abortion, he decides to cross the border with his cousin. She hopes to get out of the situation she finds herself in by going to New York, but even there she encounters a number of things that shatter the illusion of a liberal society. The best films of 2020 are ingenious, but ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’ is at the very top.
FIRST COW
The American drama first came out in 2019 at the Telluride Film Festival, and then had its official premiere in March this year. Kelly Reichardt’s film recently won Best Picture at the New York Phil Critics Circle Awards. The plot follows two passengers fleeing a dangerous gang in the 1820s. They dream of getting rich and have a perfect plan: they will steal the milk of a rich landowner’s cow. This is how a completely unexpected mix of stories about friendship, capitalism, nature and loneliness emerges. This is one of the biggest movie favorites of 2020.
THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7
Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Keaton, Noah Robbins, Yahyja Abdul-Mateen II, Frank Langella, John Carrol Lynch, Mark Rylance and Jeremy Strong marked the fall in the film 'The Trial of the Chicago 7.' It is directed by Aaron Sorkin who, it seems, continues a series of his ingenious successes and raises Oscar dust again. The film follows the trial that followed a major protest in Chicago in 1968. Find out all about the plot of the film and why it thrilled us here.
THE ASSISTANT
Last year, the drama ‘Bombshells’, which is one of the films in the spirit of the important #MeToo movement, earned several nominations. However, compared to the film starring Charlize Theron, ‘The Assistant’ sounds drastically better, more intriguing and better. The plot focuses on Jane (Julia Garner), a new assistant to the Hollywood producer, a character modeled after the convicted Harvey Weinstein. The film shows Jane's everyday life, the prejudices of the men in the office, and the pressure and mobbing of a powerful producer. Although the predator itself is never shown in the film, its presence is felt so the tension peaks and the film slowly becomes almost a horror.
BAD EDUCATION
In April, the film ‘Bad Education’ starring the genius Hugh Jackman and Oscar winner Alison Janney was released on HBO GO. The film follows the story of prestigious school supervisor Frank Tassone who must devise a crazy plan to cover up expenses and embezzlement of money of epic proportions. The black comedy is based on real events about the biggest public school scam in American history.
DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD
One of the best documentaries of the year focuses on a particularly difficult topic: conversation and relationships with people who are nearing the end of their lives. But in a completely drinkable and ingenious way. When her father Dick can no longer live alone due to dementia, director Kirsten Johnson moves him into her apartment. The two embark on a rather unusual, somewhat bizarre project. They start filming imaginary scenes of all the ways Dick might die.
NOMADLAND
Certainly the biggest candidate for the upcoming awards season is ‘Nomadland’, especially Frances McDormand. I'm not homeless, I'm just houseless ", says in the film Fern (McDormand), one of thousands of people who lost their homes after the collapse of the economy in 2008, left the traditional way of life and started living as nomads - sometimes of their own free will forced conditions. McDormand plays a woman from a small town destroyed in a crisis, who after losing everything decides to pack her bags and travel around America in her van. Along the way, he meets other nomads, mostly naturalists who actually act out a fictional version of themselves, live in their vans and do short jobs from which they survive from today to tomorrow. That’s why ‘Nomadland’ is an unusual blend of fiction and documentary directed by Chloe Zhao.
MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM
It arrived on Netflix just a few days ago, and has already earned an avalanche of good reviews. the film stars the genius Viola Davis, Glynn Turman, Colman Domino, Michael Potts and one of the main roles (along with Davis) is played by Chadwick Boseman who passed away in August this year. The film ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ takes us to a music studio where a song with the band has to be sung by Ma Rainey, the blues queen of the 1920s in Chicago who inspired the film. While she is waging her struggle with a manager who wants to take complete control of her music, trumpet player Levee (Boseman) himself wants to realize himself in the music industry. Tensions are growing rapidly among musicians, while at the same time intertwining themes of race, identity, supremacy, and the industry that rules musicians.
SOUL
As one of the best films of 2020, many critics have highlighted a new Disney factory film, ‘Soul.’ It is signed by Peter Docter, an Oscar winner for Diney’s favorite film ‘Inside Out.’ At the heart of the story is Joe, a music art teacher in elementary school. school, who dreams of becoming a jazz musician. On the eve of a big performance that could bring him the desired career, Joe experiences an accident that causes his soul to separate from his body. Joe's soul wants and needs to return to his life, and the mysterious character "22" will help him along the way.