10 Best Films 2018 – The Editor’s Selections
2. The Shape of Water
Had it been almost any other year in recent memory, Guillermo Del Toro’s The Shape of Water would have likely earned the top spot on this list. It was a magnificent piece of filmmaking from an auteur on an almost entirely different playing field to everyone else in the English language right now; different because of what he’s making as much as how he’s making it.
This fantasy romance was a love letter to cinema that tackled contemporary issues regarding the acceptance of the “other” while remaining so beautifully innocent and filled with love that the very beauty and magic of cinema itself seemed represented in each and every frame.
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1. Cold War
Pawel Pawlikowski’s modern masterpiece was a joy to behold; an unflinching portrait of romance in the midst of war.
In my review, I wrote that this Polish picture was “a piece of almost indescribable beauty and impact”, a “phenomenal modern masterpiece by one of the great auteurs of our age”. It truly is, and the comparison I made between Pawlikowski and the great Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky in the same review seems more and more deserved by the day.
Cold War was the timeless classic of 2018; a piece that will remain watchable in 5, 10 or 1,000 years time because of its beauty in its artistic expression; an astonishing feat in filmmaking from the very best around.
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