The Science of Sleep (2006)
Jul 24, 2006Dreams and Wacky Surrealism
A Michel Gondry film that blurs the line between dream and reality with hilariously offbeat regard. Gondry indulges his eccentricities to the maximum with quite sublime results
Gael Garcia Bernal
Blindness (2008)
Apr 17, 2010Plague of Blindness
A hugely underrated film that depicts the brutal collapse of society that occurs when the entire world is affected by a plague that causes blindness. Directed in strong and powerful images
The Limits of Control (2009)
Aug 13, 2009Cryptic Assignment/Surrealism
Cryptic and baffling Jim Jarmusch film with Isaach De Bankole as a mysterious assassin who passes through a series of enigmatic and surreal conversations
Zoom (2015)
Dec 9, 2017Series of Nested Meta-Fictional Tales
This nominally tells three slice-of-life tales but in each the principal character is creating a book or film about one of the other characters. This becomes a meta-fiction of considerable cleverness as we see how the problems of one character end up reflected in the other character's story
Desierto (2015)
Jan 15, 2017White Vigilante Hunts Mexican Illegal Immigrants
Alfonso Cuaron's son Jonas makes a film about Mexican illegal immigrants being hunted by a white vigilante in a Most Dangerous Game scenario. The film came out just after Trump's famous wall campaign speech
Coco (2017)
Feb 10, 2018Pixar Animaton/Mexican Afterlife
Pixar's 19th film. Set on the Mexican Day of the Dead and then venturing into the afterlife, this is a celebration of all things Mexican, which Pixar conduct without any wrong steps. A film made in vibrant colours
Old (2021)
Oct 1, 2021Beach Where People Rapidly Age
M. Night Shyamalan gets more of a bad rap than he is due. I am happy to argue that this, which is set around a beach where people rapidly age, is one of his best films to date
Station Eleven (2021-2022)
Mar 11, 2022Post-Apocalyptic World
A beautifully-made post-apocalyptic story told as a mandala of threads and surprise connections that stretch over twenty years