Raul Ruiz's Mysteries of Lisbon, the final film I saw at this year's New York Film Festival, is also one of my top three films from the festival, right behind Uncle Boonmee and Certified Copy. (I'm seeing Carlos this weekend outside the festival so that ranking may change.) Runners-up were Poetry, The Strange Case of Angelica, Oki's Movie, Film Socialisme, Tuesday, After Christmas and Another Year. Special mention goes to James Benning's Ruhr, of which I only saw the first half. Benning follows up the great RR with another beautiful film about the power of looking closely at seemingly ordinary landscapes.
For now I'll just say that Mysteries of Lisbon, aptly described by David Bordwell as a "rich, high thread-count" film, is the kind of dizzying, all-enveloping experience to make one swoon over the beauties that cinema is capable of.
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