INCLUDING ADRIAN MARTIN, FOR SIGHT & SOUND 2013 POLL
Last week, we compiled 2013 best movie lists from several critics who placed Brian De Palma's Passion either in their top ten for the year, or otherwise gave it honorable (or, in one case, dishonorable) mention. Thanks to Carsten for directing us to Sight & Sound's lists of the best films of 2013. A few of the individual ballots from critics placed Passion in their top five:
Adrian Martin (Goethe University)
Jealousy
Passion
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
Detention
Stray Dogs
Martin also compiled the year's "Ten Best Confrontations" for Fandor's Keyframe blog, and again included Passion, writing, "One occasionally reads nonsense on the order of: 'Brian De Palma is not a director of actors.' The wonderful 'kissing confrontation' in Passion between Christine (Rachel McAdams) and her assistant’s assistant Dani (Karoline Herfurth), undoubtedly improved by the actors from what was in the script, proves otherwise: McAdams’ mock outrage as she rips her shirt open and begins to imagine her sexual harassment complaint–having just forced a kiss onto the (at this stage) helpless minion–is an hilarious expression of the power relations elsewhere expressed, in a much darker key, by the film."
Sergio Angelini (British Universities Film & Video Council)
Blue Jasmine
Broken
Hyde Park On Hudson
Passion
Rigor Mortis
"Brian De Palma refashioned Alain Corneau's Love Crimes into the criminally neglected Passion, a sly and inventive take on narcissism in the PR industry that includes a typically audacious use of split screen."
Matthew Thrift (Critic)
Norte, The End Of History
12 Years A Slave
To The Wonder
It's Such A Beautiful Day
Passion
See also: 'PASSION' ON MORE TOP 10 LISTS FROM 2013
Updated: Monday, February 16, 2015 12:37 AM CST
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