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2024 Movies

Benoit Rouilly: Best Films of 2024

31 January 2025

Direct Action - Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell

Benoit Rouilly: Best Films of 2024, as posted on Unspoken Cinema where he has marked certain entries as contemporary contemplative cinema

[see also 2021]

  1. Direct Action
    Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell
  2. Dahomey
    Mati Diop
  3. Evil Does Not Exist
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
  4. Man in Black
    Wang Bing
  5. It's Not Me
    Leos Carax
  6. Youth (Spring)
    Wang Bing
  7. In Our Day
    Hong Sang-soo
  8. The Seed of the Sacred Fig
    Mohammad Rasoulof
  9. Flow
    Gints Zilbalodis
  10. Poor Things
    Yorgos Lanthimos
  11. The Second Act
    Quentin Dupieux
  12. Kinds of Kindness
    Yorgos Lanthimos
  13. Caught by the Tides
    Jia Zhang-ke
  14. All We Imagine as Light
    Payal Kapadia
  15. Daaaaaalí!
    Quentin Dupieux
  16. The Zone of Interest
    Jonathan Glazer
  17. Memory
    Michel Franco
  18. The Room Next Door
    Pedro Almodóvar
  19. I'm Still Here
    Walter Salles
  20. The Monk and the Gun
    Pawo Choyning Dorji

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