'' SOME -BEST FILMS- SOAR '' : 2023

 

1.-  ' The Zone Of Interest '  

An extraordinary triumph from Jonathan Glazer, this film dramatises the domestic routine of Rudolf Hoss [ Christian Friedel ], the commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp.

He and his family bustle around with their servants, ignoring the industrialised mass murder being committed just over the garden wall.

2.-  ' Past Lives '

A 12-year-old girl moves with her family from Korea to Canada, leaving behind her childhood sweetheart.

Twenty-four years later, they meet again in New York.

Celine Song's bittersweet tale muses on fate, ambition and everything that is gained and lost by moving to a new country.

3.-  ' Poor Things '

In Yorgos Manthimos's wildly inventive adaptation of Alasdair Gray's satirical novel, a woman [ Emma Stone ]  is brought back from the dead by a lad scientist [ Willem Dafoe ] with no memory of her previous life.

On an uproarious whirlwind tour of fin de siecle Europe, she learns about society's conventions and shatters them all.

The World Students Society thanks The Economist.