OUR BELOVED MONTH OF AUGUST, released in French Theaters in 2009, is chosen by Isabelle Regnier, from Le Monde, as the film of the year. It is also included in *Jacques Mendelbaum*’s selection, who speaks of his “liberty as an absolute, as a political insurrection” and of a “languid and wild summer’s picture (that) is an invitation to reinvent life”.
Miguel Gomes’ film is picked by Olivier Père, Locarno Film Festival’s director, as one of the films of the decade in the magazine Cahiers du Cinéma, and holds 10th place of reader’s choice for film of the year. Miguel Gomes is also designated as one of the 15 emerging directors of the decade, among names like Michel Gondry and Richard Kelly. He’s described as a director to whom “adolescent emotions, 30 years old moods or a region’s secular imaginary pulsate with the same secret whispers which, as a good sorcerer, he can harmonize in multiple portative cosmogonies with changing reflects” (Joachim Lepastier).
Is has also been chosen by several critics to figure in 2009 Top Ten published by Les Inrockuptibles and Cahiers du Cinéma.
THE PORTUGUESE NUN is present in british press: it is elected film of the year in The Guardian. David Parkinson searched among over 300 screening events the hidden “gems that leaves you wondering how the distributors missed it”. The critics describes THE PORTUGUESE NUN an “impishly poetic and singularly moving” film with an “idiosyncratic charm”.
Eugène Green’s film is also chosen by Kieron Corless, from Sight & Sound, as the 2nd best 2009 film and is quoted in French magazines Cahiers du Cinéma and *Les Inrockuptible*’s palmarés.
RUINS, Manuel Mozos documentary, is in Sight & Sound critics’ Top 5, as Kieron Corless’ 3rd choice.
Sight & Sound
Les Inrockuptibles
Le Monde
The Guardian
Cahiers du Cinéma