The 2023 season is at its end, tomorrow will be the last day of 2023. This year has been a rollercoaster ride for all of us, and we also experienced a lot of technological and cultural advancement around ourselves and have taken benefit from it.
We are sure that all of you have done your favourite things this year. And one of the most favourite things we all have done in 2023 is to watch movies from home, lying on our couches in the most comfortable position and having our favourite snack in our hands. The watching experience changed drastically in 2023.
In 2023, the greatest movie was made, and got fully acknowledged for their greatness. So before the end of this year, Time Magazine has wrapped up 2023 with Year’s top 10 movies which has left all with one word ‘Fantastic.’
Top 10 movies of 2023 are as followed:
10. Passages
Life is too short to get through without making a few mistakes. However, what level of error is too much? In the middle of Ira Sachs’ occasionally humorous but also piercing Franz Rogowski, in a stunning performance as the self-centred filmmaker Passages, windmills through life, recklessly ignoring the feelings of those around him, including his husband Ben Whishaw and the young woman who has temporarily captured his heart Adèle Exarchopoulos.
He can be frustrating at best, or he can cause severe, lifelong pain at worst. You still have feelings for him, though. You might experience both the charge and the agony simultaneously as this love triangle develops because his electricity is also a curse.
9. Dreamin’ Wild
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who believe that rock ‘n’ roll dreams are just passing phases and those who live their dreams constantly, even if they are limited to the spiral grooves of sides A and B.
For the second group, Bill Pohlad’s Dreamin’ Wild, which is based on actual events and stars Walton Goggins and Casey Affleck, tells the tale of what happens when two people who pursued pop stardom as teenagers are given another chance in middle age.In a lifetime, music can mean many things. It can break dreams, but it can also make them come true.
8. Are you there God? It’s me, Margaret
There are still not many films on the screen that focus on the particulars of women’s experiences. How many studio executives will jump at the chance to provide funding for a movie about the onset of menstruation and, implicitly, the menopausal transition? The confusion of adolescence is a major theme in Kelly Fremon Craig’s adaptation of Judy Blume’s 1970 coming-of-age classic, which stars a stellar cast that includes Rachel McAdams, Benny Safdie, and Abby Ryder Fortson.
However, it also subtly explores what it means for women to say goodbye to all that as they enter middle age. This is an excellent film for younger audiences, but it may even be superior for those who have trouble seeing the very end of the telescope.
7. Killers of the Flower Moon
Watching Lily Gladstone (above) in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon is like reliving a historical thread that most of us haven’t seen until recently. David Grann’s account of how a group of avaricious white men methodically killed members of the Osage Nation in early 1920s Oklahoma has been adapted by Scorsese into a melancholic, poetic film.
Gladstone gives voice to a million stories that have been conveniently forgotten in contemporary America through her portrayal of Mollie Burkhart, a wealthy Osage woman whose family was steadily murdered around her. Major motion picture stars like Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro appear in Scorsese’s melancholic epic. However, Gladstone is aware that Mollie is the heart and soul of his movie.
6. Past Lives
The stirring debut film by writer-director Celine Song, follows the story of a Korean immigrant named Greta Lee, who has made a name for herself in Toronto and New York, as she reunites with her childhood friend Teo Yoo. Her husband John Magaro watches on, a witness to the subterranean crackle of their connection.
We can only be on one road at a time in any given life, out of an infinite number of roads that could be taken. The central theme of Song’s film is the melancholy beauty of lost chances and the acceptance that longing is a natural part of life. The biggest lie of all, if you will, is that without it, all we have left is false certainty.
5. Revoir Paris
The French writer-director Alice Winocour’s brother escaped the 2015 terrorist attack at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris; she had to wait to find out if he had survived. She was unable to contact him while he was hiding. Virginie Efira plays a woman who survives a similar, albeit fictional, attack in Revoir Paris, and she gives a heartbreaking performance; however, the definition of survival in this context is murky.
Mia, Efira’s sister, was too traumatised by the horrific event to remember much of it. However, she gradually rediscovers life and emotion by relating to people whose lives were also shattered by the tragedy. Without pretence or cliches, Winocour and Efira explore the harsh and occasionally excruciating reality of what it means to commit to the world of the living.
4. Priscilla
Even now, forty-six years after his passing, Elvis remains ubiquitous. The woman he met, Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, was only 14 years old when she was a young girl, and he was a 24-year-old soldier stationed in Germany. Priscilla Presley’s 1985 memoir served as the inspiration for Sofia Coppola’s film, which tenderly brings this tale to life.
As Elvis Presley, Jacob Elordi portrays a gifted musician who also harbors dark secrets and mistreats the woman he loves the most. Though Priscilla was extraordinarily self-possessed as a young adolescent, Cailee Spaeny’s portrayal of her at age 27 after her marriage to royalty ended is what really steals the show. With a step as smooth as a satin shoe, Spaeny takes us through this remarkable, yet agonising, period of one woman’s life.
3. The Zone Of Interest
The commonplace necessities and desires that many of us share—an abundance of food, marital company, and a secure and comfortable home—were also held by German SS officer Rudolf Höss, the longstanding Auschwitz commandant, and his wife Hedwig. Sandra Hüller plays Hedwig in Jonathan Glazer’s eerie, icy film, which is based on Martin Amis’ 2014 novel.
Hedwig runs her household with starched-linen efficiency and is only dimly aware of the horrors happening outside her garden walls, considering them more of an annoyance than a tragedy. When it comes to appeasing the ruling class, Christian Friedel’s Höss is incredibly creative; his concepts serve as fodder for evil. Not all of history is as semi-fictionalized as it seems in the Zone of Interest. It’s also a story for the here and now—a reminder that happiness built on the suffering of others is no kind of happiness at all.
2. Maestro
It is not for the weak of heart to pledge one’s life to another. Maestro, starring Bradley Cooper, is less of a biopic and more of a window into a complicated, passionate marriage. It’s a modern rarity—an example of a big-budget, star-studded production that successfully tells a story fit for an adult. Leonard Bernstein, the conductor and composer played by Cooper, is a complex and captivating man as well as an artist.
Carey Mulligan portrays the Costa Rican-Chilean actress Felicia Montealegre, who married Bernstein and gave birth to his three children, in one of the best performances of the year. Montealegre is a portrait of both human fragility and steeliness. This is large-scale cinematography done in a startlingly personal way.
1. Fallen Leaves
In Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves, the main characters are a woman (Alma Pöysti) who is trying to make the most of her drab workaday life and a metalworker (Jussi Vatanen), whose perpetual inebriation keeps him underemployed, along with a dog who helps his human bridge the gap between loneliness and the contentment of solitude. Together, these characters work a magic in their tentative romance.
People may find Kaurismäki’s pictures to be simply strange or endearing, but he is the master of the deadpan humanist comedy. Nonetheless, a significant portion of life consists of tiny discoveries that shape our essence.
