The Oscars are very far every year from doing justice with Your nomineesif what you want is to make sure you watch the best movies of the year. There are capital absences (let’s not say if your menu is not exclusively composed of Hollywood) that are sometimes given by issues as absurd as the premiere dates (in this edition it has happened to ‘rivals’). But let’s recognize it, the Oscars also serve to peck nominations and find hidden jewels among the nominees. We recommend these three.
The boys from Nickel
Finally it reaches our screens (specifically through Prime Video) the movie Maybe visually more daring and unique of all the nominees for best film. It takes us to Florida, in the sixties, where a young African -American is transferred by error to a reformatory where others like him are segregated with the aim of indoctrinating them. The peculiar of this proposal is that it is shot in the first person, and the perspective of the camera is that of its protagonist. A radical exercise, of a rabidly anti -racist message, and that makes a series of visual bets that have made it one of the most deservedly acclaimed tapes of the year.
Nominated A: Best film, best adapted script
Where to see it: In Prime video
Flow, a world to save
If they ask us, we are of the opinion that the category of best animation film hides many more essential films than the best film to dry. The very curious ‘Memoirs of a snail’, the trchantery new adventure of Wallace & Gromit, the almost safe winner ‘Wild Robot’ and our favorite, ‘Flow’, an incredible silent adventure, winner of a Golden Globe and that portrays the dumb trip of a group of animals commanded by a cat. Evocator, visually spectacular and very suggestive, without a doubt one of this year’s films.
Nominated A: Best International Film, Best Animation Film
Where to see it: Cinemas
The needle girl
You still cannot see it because, against usual, it will reach our screens after the ceremony, on March 21, but we recommend that you notice in your cinephile agenda this drama based on real events and that it grabs aesthetics of horror cinema to tell a story slightly inspired by that of a Danish serial killer of the beginning of the century. In the film, a pregnant and unemployed young woman helps to direct an old woman a clandestine adoption agency, all wrapped in a disturbing black and white photograph that converts the heartbreaking period of scoring an authentic nightmare.
Nominated A: Best International Film
Where to see it: Premiere date: March 21