Cinema writes the story of our present. And it’s struck me how beautifully, if mournfully, this collection of my favourite films released this year speaks to two of our most pressing concerns: history, how it weaves its tendrils into the present and how foolish we become if we ignore it, and loneliness, which starts to feel like a death sentence if we cannot find a way to speak to each other.
These ideas are present, in subtle or dominant ways, across all 15 entries on this list. Certainly, it wasn’t intentional, but it may have been subconscious.
