Best films of the Year

So, now that ’09 is drawing to a conclusion, I’m curious to see what people think the finest films of the year were. I’ll start out with “A Serious Man.” In one interview, I recall them saying that they wanted to make a film for their father. This one must have been it. Even their lighter material smokes a lot their competition. I was also impressed with “Antichrist,” and even with all the negative criticism it garnered, understandable, for me the juxtaposition of some of the most spellbindgingly gorgeous cinematography juxtaposed with terrifying and gratuitous content gave, for me, a resonance I’ll not soon forget. It wasn’t nearly the best Lars von Treir film I’ve ever seen, by a long shot, and he is a well-known provocateur, and on that note, he succeeded. You could say it was an intellectual take on torture porn that on he could conjure. A nearly impossible film to dissect, it was, in its way, art in its highest form. Though I haven’t rounded out my top 10 films of the year, I’m sure it will come in there somewhere. So with that said, I’ll be curious to see what others say. Have at friends.

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