My Top Ten Movies of 2013

10. TheWorld’s End

How can I not like anything that Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg create?

9. In the House

Obsession, creativity, dark humor, one of Ozon’s best movies

8. The Great Gatsby

Leo forever!

7. We Steal Secrets

A great account of WikiLeaks and the man behind of it all. It doesn’t take sides and lets you make up your own opinion. 

6. Filth

Brutally honest, dark and twisted with a heart of gold. 

5. Stoker

Gothic, Obsession, Love, everything I like in a movie. More here

4. Cloud Atlas

Very underrated. It’s like 6 movies in one.

3. Before Midnight

So realistic it hurts. Jesse and Celine enter reality. 

2. The Act of Killing

No comments. You need to watch it to believe it.

1. The Great Beauty

It’s like swimming in honey. It made me sad, smile and think. It made me fall in love with a city I’ve never been before. 

Stoker

It’s definitely not everyone’s cup of tea. However you will choose to label Stoker (crime, psychological thriller, family drama) in its core is dark, twisted, creepy and pure gothic. It’s a slow burning mystery filled with symbolisms (some might say too many and too obvious). The egg, the spider, the shoes are all signs of an unusual coming of age.

I am not formed by things that are of myself alone, says India in the beginning. Like a puzzle missing his last piece she is waiting for her uncle in order to become free and to become adult. But in order to get there she will have to choose the pieces of her she wants to keep, the ones to discard and the ones to just accept. Driven by Park Chan-Wook’s stunning, directing job and aided by superb acting, brilliant music by my all time favorite composer Clint Mansell, Stoker is an unexpected twist on a girl’s journey towards adulthood. It’s definitely not everyone’s cup of tea. It’s slow pacing at times, esoteric, too weird and the final revelation comes with a subdued power that will disappoint some. Not me. I am ready to start wearing high waist skirts, men’s sunglasses, grow my hair long and drive away to New York.