Image Credit: Jose HaroIt’s been a good week for Javier Bardem’s Biutiful. Yesterday Bardem scored a Best Actor nomination from the British Academy. And now the film has landed on the list of nine semifinalists for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award. The films that will now vie for an Oscar nomination are:
Hors la Loi (Outside the Law) [Algeria]
Incendies [Canada]
In a Better World [Denmark]
Dogtooth [Greece]
Confessions [Japan]
Biutiful [Mexico]
Life, Above All [South Africa]
Tambien La Lluvia (Even the Rain) [Spain]
Simple Simon [Sweden]
Incendies has been a film-festival hit in the past few months, while In a Better World won the foreign-film Golden Globe this past Sunday. Both films will play at the Sundance Film Festival which starts tomorrow.
Can’t judge cause I haven’t seen any of them yet. I’m kinda surprised In a Better World won the Globe though, hadn’t heard about till then.
Was hoping that Peru’s ‘Contracorriente’ (Undertow) would get to the final selection list. Really good movie!
No Girl With the Dragon Tattoo?
Sweden didn’t enter it.
Ranking of the films I’ve seen:
1. Dogtooth, 4.5/5, unique and intelligent film that was one of last years best.
2. In a better world, 3/5, called “The revenge” if translated litteraly from the danish this is an average movie with good direction an acting from it’s young protagonists.
3. Simple Simon, 3/5, called “There are no feelings in space” if translated literally from swedish (much better title) this is an conventional tale without any distinctive traits. For being conventional, it’s quite good though. Inspired acting by the youngest Skarsgård sibling.
4. Biutiful, 2/5, Bardems tremendous acting is remarkable but doesn’t save this overrated quasi-religious mess.
The rest I have’nt seen yet, but it is a shame that Turkeys “Honey” did’nt make the cut.
Incendies is a great film.
You guys should see it
I saw “In a Better World” last month at a press screening in NYC with my university’s film club and loved it. It was the first foreign film I’ve seen on the big screen. “In a Better World” deserved that Golden Globe, and I hope it wins the Oscar. I hope studios start having wider releases for foreign films like they do with most independent films these days.
Where is Contracorriente, where is The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo!!!!
Biutiful will get the nomination easily, alejandro gonzalez is an amaizing director, he knows how to tell a story, and He has a tremendus capacity to direct actors and actreeses, but in this case he failed with his movie, bardem is ok, his name is going to be in the academy nominations next tuesday for best actor, and everybody will be surpised.
Were those two stellar Korean films, Thirst and Mother ever entered for consideration at either this year or last year’s Oscars? I thought Mother specifically would have a real chance.
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