Igor Soukmanov
Program Director, Film Critic
Belarus
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola |
| MOARTEA DOMNULUI LAZARESCU | 2005 | Cristi Puiu |
| DEUX ANGLAISES ET LE CONTINENT | 1971 | François Truffaut |
| Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie | 1972 | Luis Buñuel |
| Il fiore delle Mille e una notte | 1974 | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| POZNAVAYA BELYI SVET | 1979 | Kira Muratova |
| OHAYO | 1959 | Yasujirō Ozu |
| A Man Vanishes | 1967 | Shohei Imamura |
| Tropical Malady | 2004 | Apichatpong Weerasethakul |
| L'Argent | 1983 | Robert Bresson |
Comments
DEUX ANGLAISES ET LE CONTINENT
'I wanted to squeeze love like a lemon' – François Truffaut
The most outstanding film about the physical aspect of love.
Love is an ephemeral concept but Truffaut could cinematically present it as a question of weight.
Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie
Life is but Dream, Dream is but Life: here is a perfect film embodiment of this thesis.
Il fiore delle Mille e una notte
Absolute Poetry in Film.
POZNAVAYA BELYI SVET
The freest film, in the world's most unfree empire.
A Man Vanishes
A trick I can't work out.
Imamura has crushed the boundaries between documentary and fiction and declared an immutable essence of Cinema as a sacred act of union between Reality and Author (Demiurge).
Further remarks
War, Death, Love, Dream, Poetry, Peace, Childhood, Fiction and Reality, Unknown, Human Being… 10 sacred words. 10 films as 10 unique ways to grasp incomprehensible.