Above: Henner Winckler's School Trip.
Compiling a top ten European films of the decade is a tricky business—what do we mean by "European", by "film", or even by "decade"? My personal run-down of the truly outstanding feature-length, made-for-tv, world-premiered after 1st January 2000 comes to eleven titles, an awkward number in any sphere except the football pitch. For what it's worth, my "first XI" of favourites, in alphabetical order, reads as follows:
Control (2007; Anton Corbijn; UK)
Dancer in the Dark (2000; Lars Von Trier; Denmark)
Dead Man's Shoes (2004; Shane Meadows; UK)
Gunnar Goes Comfortable (2003; Gunnar Hall Jensen; Norway)
The Intruder (L'Intrus; 2004; Claire Denis; France)
Last Resort (2000; Pawel Pawlikowski, UK)
René (2008, Helena Třeštíková, Czech Republic)
Satan (aka Sheitan; 2006; Kim Chapiron, France)
The State In Am In (Die innere Sicherheit; 2000; Christian Petzold; Germany)
United 93 (2006; Paul Greengrass; UK)
Volver (2006; Pedro Almodovar; Spain)
Many of the above will be familiar to most The...
Compiling a top ten European films of the decade is a tricky business—what do we mean by "European", by "film", or even by "decade"? My personal run-down of the truly outstanding feature-length, made-for-tv, world-premiered after 1st January 2000 comes to eleven titles, an awkward number in any sphere except the football pitch. For what it's worth, my "first XI" of favourites, in alphabetical order, reads as follows:
Control (2007; Anton Corbijn; UK)
Dancer in the Dark (2000; Lars Von Trier; Denmark)
Dead Man's Shoes (2004; Shane Meadows; UK)
Gunnar Goes Comfortable (2003; Gunnar Hall Jensen; Norway)
The Intruder (L'Intrus; 2004; Claire Denis; France)
Last Resort (2000; Pawel Pawlikowski, UK)
René (2008, Helena Třeštíková, Czech Republic)
Satan (aka Sheitan; 2006; Kim Chapiron, France)
The State In Am In (Die innere Sicherheit; 2000; Christian Petzold; Germany)
United 93 (2006; Paul Greengrass; UK)
Volver (2006; Pedro Almodovar; Spain)
Many of the above will be familiar to most The...
- 12/24/2009
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