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Skyfall (2012)
"Think in your sins."
Skyfall by Sam Mendes as director, brings us what is for me not the most iconic but the best in terms of history, direction and performance of the 007 saga.
A film that starts strong and with the already characteristic introduction of the saga with Adele's song "Skyfall."
A masterful performance by Javier Bardem who for me embodies the most complicated character that Bond has ever faced.
In this film we are presented with a portrait of Bond as the mortal being that he is, being weak at certain times and affected by his age, and it puts us in a certain context about his origin as the final action of the film takes place in his old house called Skyfall hence the name of the movie.
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
Hilarous gangster movie.
From director Guy Ritchie (Snatch), Lock and Stock, set in the suburbs of London in the 1990s, follows the story of four lifelong friends who, after winning a hundred thousand pounds, get into a high-stakes card game and lose because it was rigged, they are forced by Harry the Ax to pay five hundred thousand pounds in one week.
One of Ritchie's most famous films with that approach to the film in which throughout the film he presents different linked stories that lead to the same outcome in a ridiculous way that gives it that point of dark comedy.
A well-made film with that open ending and that comical touch that it has makes it a cult film.
Annie Hall (1977)
A comedy that combines psychology with laughter
One of the best films rated by Allen's critics about Alvy Singer, a neurotic Jew divorced twice who talks about what he feels after breaking up with his girlfriend Annie Hall, an aspiring singer, going through all him failed loves and the attempts to find it overlooking the fact that their problems in their relationships are not because of the girls he meet just for his obssesions and paranoia.
The way in which it is presented, appealing directly on some occasions with the viewer looking directly at the camera, making us participate in the dialogue and providing a psychological component to the comedy, making this work something truly ingenious.
Midsommar (2019)
A bizarre masterpiece
Midsommar, the American film along with a Swedish collaboration directed by Ari Aster (Hereditary), with Florence Pugh playing Dani the protagonist of these 150 minutes of pure psychological terror.
The story takes place in Sweden in a remote village during a festival (Midsommar) that takes place every 90 years without it being until the end when we are shown the true climax of the festival.
A film that keeps you in constant tension about what will happen to the characters you are introduced to and as the film progresses it becomes more and more disturbing until it ends with what I consider one of the most disturbing endings in horror cinema.