5º – Home (Ursula Meier, 2008)
Dealing with a complex theme such as the effects of urbanization on those inserted in certain places directly affected, ‘Home’ is a concise and heavy film. Its director, Ursula Meier, chooses to have a rustic approach with her spectator. Everything shown there is cruel, overwhelming and sad. And the comic situations do not help to reduce the weight of the plot, but only make it more palatable.
4º – Story of Women (Claude Chabrol, 1988)
Allocated to France by the Nazis, in World War II, the film tells the hard story of a woman who has to deal with the upbringing of her children, an absent husband and, still, the figure of feminine repression at the time: ‘Story of Women’ is a masterpiece of cinema, bringing a powerful story about the implications of a destructive social model in the lives of the most diverse individuals. Here, we still have one of the greatest female performances in the history of cinema, propitiated by the fantastic Isabelle Huppert.
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