ROUND-UP: My favourite films of 2023
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2023 was a great year for cinema, with many new exciting voices emerging as well as old hands coming back with fresh gifts.
It is an ode to the beauty of cinema that every year, filmmakers find new ways of telling old stories as well as new gems of narratives that speak to us of what it feels to be alive and human. The best films are a mirror to ourselves, and these films reflected that for me.
My favourite films of last year.
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May December / Todd Haynes
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Poor Things / Yorgos Lanthimos
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The Holdovers / Alexander Payne
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Anatomy of a fall / Justine Triet
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Past Lives / Celine Song
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Return to Seoul / Davy Chou
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Fremont / Babak Jalali
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Hesitation Wound / Selman Nacar
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Barbie / Greta Gerwig
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Evil Does Not Exist / Ryusuke Hamaguchi
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America Fiction / Cord Jefferson