From “Barbenheimer” to “Past Lives”: We take a look at the film highlights of 2023.
1. Barbenheimer
Because the hype surrounding “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” so obviously thrives on contrasts – colorful and exuberant one, serious and strict the other – it is not so easy to find common ground beyond the start date. But maybe like this: What unites the two films by Greta Gerwig and Christopher Nolan is their colossal desire to be solitary in a landscape of increasingly similar large-scale Hollywood productions. Both invite you to be discovered.
2. Tar
Decades from now, people will look at Todd Field’s masterpiece the same way we look at the works of Stanley Kubrick: a unique film event, fascinating in its perfection, which combines visual creative intent and content-related excellence. And it reaches its climax in Cate Blanchett’s portrayal: her Lydia Tár, a fallen angel who does not bend even in the fall, is for eternity.
3. Anatomy of a case
The deeper you let yourself fall into this psychogram of the decline of a marriage, which is first a crime thriller, then a courtroom drama and finally a discourse about truth, which gets further and further away the closer you get to it, the more lasting the film by the great Justine Triert has , starring the even greater Sandra Hülser.