Look Back at 2010
December 9, 2010 Leave a Comment
Looking back at foreign films in the theaters for 2010 you just have to think of one word SWEDISH…this was a big year for the Swedish film industry and most of it thanks to one person, the late Steig Larsson and his Millennium trilogy.
The year really started with a holdover from ’09 Let The Right One In, a vampire movie that will make you forget the Twilight pics. This movie was nominated and won over 60 film awards around the world and was remade in the U.S. as Let Me In, but unfortunately that did not live up to the original.
Then in early ’10 the first of the trilogy came ashore The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, seen by many critics as the strongest of the three. That followed in mid-year by The Girl Who Played With Fire and then almost immediately by The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest. Fans of the books and movies have some hope there is talk of a fourth and fifth installment, we shall see. The U.S. version of the first movie will star Daniel Craig (007), Rooney Mara (Lisbeth) and Robin Wright in the Erika role, comes out mid ’11. We shall see if this film lives up to its European role model. Then from Denmark a very adventurous movie taking on two big subjects; Brotherhood is about returning a veteran getting caught up in the neo-nazi movement and it’s a gay love story.
France had a good year as well with movies like A Prophete, the two Mesrine movies starring Vincent Cassel. It will be interesting to see him move from a hoodlum to a ballet impresario in Black Swan, but I guess that is why they call it acting. Also from France, The Girl On The Train won much critical acclaim especially for its stars Emilie Dequenne and Catherine Deneuve. The film takes a look at anti-semetic bigotry that still haunts many today. Also from France Leaving with Kristin Scott-Thomas, Yvan Attal and Sergi Lopez. Thomas is always amazing acting in French, English and on Eurocinema we have even seen her act in Romanian.
All in all it was a good year. If we missed a favorite of yours please let us know… we would love to hear what movies you enjoyed this year.
