{"id":13861,"date":"2020-12-23T06:30:19","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T11:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lepetitseptieme.ca\/?p=13861"},"modified":"2020-12-19T20:56:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T01:56:15","slug":"2-top-5-best-movies-of-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lepetitseptieme.ca\/en\/2020\/12\/23\/2-top-5-best-movies-of-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"2 top 5 \u2013 Best Movies of 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

2020\u2026 What to say about 2020? For LPS, the month of January foreshadowed a good year. Then concerns arose from Asia. Then, Europe. And then here. In Quebec, spring was particularly murderous. We haven’t had the tens of thousands of deaths that other countries have had. But we are only 8 million inhabitants. In fact, we had one of the worst ratios in the world during the first wave of COVID-19. But what does it change for LPS, which offers movie reviews? At first, nothing. The months of February and March passed without any repercussions. Then April. Cinema closings, film postponements, and more and more deaths… Since then, 2 members of the team have had COVID-19 and 1 has lost a loved one. We are doing well, I suppose…<\/span><\/p>\n

As for me, 2020 will probably have been the worst year of my life. And yet I have known ugly years. When you have two small businesses, an event like COVID-19 doesn’t go by without leaving some damages. Drop in income, stress, fear\u2026 then break up. I am one of the thousands of people who will have seen the pandemic destroy their relationship and their lives. And when the couple is made up of 2 employees of LPS, that complicates the matter even more. The result? The worst fall of my life. Hospital\u2026 Consultations\u2026 Getting back to work\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

So how was 2020? Luckily, there have been a few great movies to get through. Obviously, unlike usual, the majority of the titles I will tell you about here were presented at festivals. This is what happens when cinemas are closed for almost half of the year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, in 2020, I have seen 2 interactive films, 80 feature films and 147 short films. So what are the best movies of 2020?<\/span><\/p>\n

Short films<\/b><\/h3>\n

5 – Fall Out (Chung Jae-Hoon) – South Korea<\/b><\/h4>\n

In a devastated Korea in the near future, a family ventures into an apartment building, hoping to reach the life-saving ice. By all means.<\/span><\/p>\n

What could be better in 2020 than a film that offers us a terrible end of the world. Here it is not a virus, but a nuclear power plant that is causing chaos. A wonderfully well put together short film that gives goose bumps. With all the environmental stakes, this doomsday scene doesn’t quite look like an image from science fiction.<\/span><\/p>\n

4 – Judith Hotel (Charlotte Le Bon) – France<\/b><\/h4>\n

\"Judith<\/a>Sleeping forever is the dream of R\u00e9mi, an insomniac for 8 years… By booking a room at the Judith Hotel, he offers himself the possibility of a new beginning.<\/span><\/p>\n

I saw <\/span>Judith Hotel<\/span><\/i> 30 years ago\u2026 Oh no wait, it was in January! You remember, that’s when life was simpler. Insomnia. Have you ever suffered from insomnia for a long time? R\u00e9mi has been suffering from it for 8 years. This film is simply surreal, with a start as strange as the end is surprising. A short film that fits well with the trend of films about suicide places. The first of a dozen I saw in 2020. I guess there is no such thing as fortuity in life.<\/span><\/p>\n

3 – Weltschmerz (Lisa Mausbach) – Germany<\/b><\/h4>\n

\"Weltschmerz\"<\/a>2050. At that time, the climate crisis will have a huge impact on our lives. On top of that, the three protagonists also have to face their inner demons.<\/p>\n

Weltschmerz is a poetic short film about the melancholy of its own insufficiency as a consequence of human destructiveness. No, it’s not a happy movie. I imagine 2020 was a good year to release this kind of movie. There have been a lot of films about ecological disasters in that dark year.<\/span><\/p>\n

By the way, the title of the film is a German word that describes a feeling of unease or unhappiness..<\/span><\/p>\n