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Faut of locomotives, the 12 months 2025 was not the best 12 months for cinema. But it gave beginning to some movies which can be inconceivable to neglect. By confronting their favorites, their reservations and their disagreements, the members of the editorial employees of Point convey you a listing dominated by a number of titles which stood out from the gang. At the pinnacle, extensively cited, One battle after one otherby Paul Thomas Anderson, an excellent broad and daring American movie, which can have served as a compass for the 12 months and which might properly win the whole lot on the Oscars.
Other favorites stand out round him: Sirātby Oliver Laxe, a sensory and radical expertise that left a long-lasting impression; September 5by Tim Fehlbaum, a dry and gripping thriller reworking an Olympic tragedy into pure cinema of stress; And The Little Lastby Hafsia Herzi, Louis-Delluc Prize 2025.
The high of Jean-Luc Wachthausen
1) One battle after one other by Paul Thomas Anderson
2) An entire stranger by James Mangold
3) A easy accident by Jafar Panahi
4) September 5 by Tim Fehlbaum
5) New wave by Richard Linklater
The 12 months 2025 was contrasted however wealthy in distinctive highlights. Paul Thomas Anderson indicators with one battle after one other an excellent American movie as cheeky as it’s virtuoso; James Mangold brings again the Dylan of the beginnings with a shocking Timothée Chalamet; Jafar Panahi returns to fiction with expertise with a thriller between social drama and black humor, September 5 transforms an Olympic tragedy right into a dry and gripping thriller; and Richard Linklater revisits Godard with joyful freedom. So many sturdy propositions which remind us that cinema can nonetheless shock.
Florence Colombani’s high
1) One battle after one other by Paul Thomas Anderson
2) Resurrection by Bi Gan
3) A easy accident by Jafar Panahi
4) A Real Pain by Jesse Eisenberg
5) The Little Last by Hafsia Herzi
Magnificent movies of sensitivity like A Real Pain Or The Little Lastothers of unimaginable political and aesthetic breadth… sufficient to maintain religion in the way forward for cinema!
Olivier Ubertalli’s high
1) Sirāt by Oliver Laxe2
2) The Secret Agent by Kleber Mendonça Filho
3) Mirrors No.3 by Christian Petzold
4) The Little Last by Hafsia Herzi
5) Kika by Alex Putin
My choice displays my love of European and South American cinema. I used to be shaken by Sirāt – a movie of sensations – and touched by the narrative freedom of The Secret Agent. I stay passionate in regards to the cinema of Hafsia Herzi and I used to be touched by the grace of Alexe Poutine’s first movie, Kika.
Philippe Guedj’s high
1) Sirāt by Oliver Laxe
2) September 5 by Tim Fehlbaum
3) Life of Chuck by Mike Flanagan
4) Avatar: Fire and Ash by James Cameron
5) Fainted by Zach Cregger
A 12 months 2025 sadly not very thrilling, notably on the entrance of popular culture in cinema. Fortunately, on this space or elsewhere, there stay some flashes: the return of James Cameron in nice type, an astonishing proposition within the horror division (fainted)the tablet of happiness Life of Chuckthe formidable thriller September 5… and the unimaginable shock Sirat.
Alice Durand’s high
1) Sirāt by Oliver Laxe
2) I’m nonetheless right here by Walter Salles
3) Meteors by Hubert Charuel and Claude Le Pape
4) Wild Fires by Jia Zhang-ke
5) Confidante by Çağla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti
A 12 months 2025, it have to be mentioned, fairly uninteresting. There stay, in the course of this grayness, a number of splinters, certainly one of which clearly stands out above the others: the unimaginable Sirātsensible on all factors, stunning, breathtaking, musical, to be considered completely within the cinema. The relaxation unfolds, just like the household and historic fresco I’m nonetheless right hereby Walter Salles, the light and French Meteorswho captivates along with his pictures. We additionally consider the Chinese epic Wild Firesfilmed over greater than twenty years by Jia Zhang-ke, and even behind closed doorways, political and feminist Confidantein the course of Istanbul, able to conserving us in suspense for greater than an hour with out leaving a personality hanging on their cellphone.
Baudouin Eschapasse’s high
1) Fragments of a love journey by Chloé Barreau
2) The Song of the Forests by Vincent Munier
3) A rustic in flames by Mona Convert
4) Drugs by Alice Odiot and Jean-Robert Viallet
5) I solely had nothingness by Guillaume Ribot
Cinema doesn’t solely contain fiction: documentaries additionally transfer us. The most shifting of the 12 months reveals the thousand methods of loving by Chloé Barreau, who reunites, thirty years later, with the twelve individuals she liked from her adolescence. The most unique follows the travels of Vincent Munier and his father between the Vosges and Norway, within the footsteps of the capercaillie. The most poetic captures the lifetime of a household of Landes fireworks makers, creators of summer season pyrotechnic exhibits. The most violent takes us behind the scenes of the Marseille courtroom, the place Alice Odiot and Jean-Robert Viallet movie the drug hearings. And essentially the most spectacular stays the characteristic movie that Guillaume Ribot takes from the “making-of” of Holocaustwhose fortieth anniversary is being celebrated this 12 months.
Thomas Graindorge’s high
1) Tartes de Soledad by Albert Serra
2) One battle after one other by Paul Thomas Anderson
3) New wave by Richard Linklater
4) The Unknown of the Grande Arche by Stéphane Demoustier
5) The Little Last by Hafsia Herzi
The cinematic 12 months 2025 is not going to be remembered. But it can a minimum of have confirmed the intact expertise of the 2 nice filmmakers of their time: Albert Serra (Tartes de Soledad) and Paul Thomas Anderson (One battle after one other), whereas seeing Hafsia Herzi’s (The Little Last). A 12 months that topped the facility of the collective (New wavelastly a great biopic of Jean-Luc Godard), whereas exhibiting its deep limits (The Unknown of the Grande Archethe anti-Brutalist). It’s a 12 months which proves that cinema continues to be able to nice dazzling moments.
Nathan Tacchi’s high
1) Sentimental worth by Joachim Trier
2) Sirāt by Oliver Laxe
3) One battle after one other by Paul Thomas Anderson
4) The Little Last by Hafsia Herzi
5) The Oslo Trilogy by Dag Johan Haugerud
My 12 months was marked by love and tenderness, with naturalistic nuggets like Sentimental worthmasterful household drama; The Little Lasta fragile portrait of a lesbian awakening; and even The Oslo Trilogya delicate Norwegian triptych on the twists and turns of the sensation of affection. Without forgetting two explosive works, Sirāt And One battle after one otheractually breathtaking.
David Doucet’s high
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1) The Brutalist by Brady Corbet
2) One battle after one other by Paul Thomas Anderson
3) Sirāt by Oliver Laxe
4) Bugonia by Yorgos Lanthimos
5) Mektoub My Love: Canto Due by Abdellatif Kechiche
Open the 12 months with The Brutalist and shut it with One battle after one otherit’s to really feel that now we have skilled a 12 months of outstanding cinema: two masterpieces, in my eyes. Sirāt stands out as a unprecedented cinematic expertise, Bugonia confirms Lanthimos’ expertise. And with Mektoub My Love: Canto Duewhich we are able to solely hope isn’t his final movie after his unlucky well being issues, Abdellatif Kechiche reminds us that he’s certainly one of our best filmmakers.
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