We have chosen nine good films that will allow you to look at the world from a different point of view, and sometimes completely change your mind. For anyone who hasn’t seen them yet, we encourage you to add them to your shortlist.
In fact, there are no films that you can be late watching, and it’s certainly never too late to rewatch and discover something new, but it is generally accepted that turning thirty is a kind of transition from youth to adulthood. Naturally, each person approaches this milestone with their own baggage of knowledge, experience and impressions, and so that this baggage of yours is not limited to long-known and, of course, beloved films, Marie Claire offers films that are worth seeing for the first time before thirty.
Schindler’s List, Steven Spielberg
Many masters of cinematography have addressed the topic of the Holocaust. But it is Schindler’s List, based on real events, that perhaps most strongly makes you feel the horror of the concentration camps. The German businessman Schindler, although a member of the Nazi Party, is not at all like his like-minded people. In an attempt to rescue the unfortunate people who are kept in concentration camps in terrible conditions, day after day he redeems prisoners from terrible imprisonment. According to historical data, in total, Oskar Schindler saved about two thousand Jews.
“His Wife” by Michelle Spinosa
Michel Spinoza’s painting is a melodrama with elements of mysticism. Gracie, a young Indian woman, after her wedding begins to suffer from an unknown mental illness – it seems to her that she has been possessed by the soul of a French woman, Catherine (Charlotte Ginsbourg), who died here in India from a drug overdose. The best doctors refuse Gracie, suggesting that her family send her to a psychiatric hospital for the rest of her life, which is much more reminiscent of a homeless shelter. But it seems that she can still be helped; all that remains is to persuade Catherine’s husband to come to India and take his wife’s soul back to her homeland.
“99 Francs” by Jan Kuhnen
Copywriter Octave (Jean Dujardin) is an ace in the advertising business, he knows that the world of an advertiser excludes any creativity for the sake of art, because the main task is to sell as many different products as possible, the quality of which often does not correspond to what was declared. 24/7 mode, big money, professional cynicism and permissiveness doom the main character to exist in an unreal world, where slogans and bright pictures reign that have nothing to do with real life. Reality has been replaced by ideal houses, ideal products and ideal women, and therefore the return to the streets of not at all glossy Paris causes horror and disgust in Octave. How to combine two universes? How to learn real relationships without slogans and silicone beauties? Is it still possible to save the world (and ourselves) from the advertising that has consumed it? The main character must answer all these questions.
“Love Me If You Dare” by Ian Samuel
French surrealism combined with pragmatic naturalism. The whole life of the main characters has long been turned into a game, where the main prize is always a tin of biscuits, which the heroes pass on to each other for completing sometimes absurd tasks. The problem is that the game becomes an integral part of both of their lives, forcing them to complicate the tasks each time. The last and most difficult thing is to quickly fall in love with each other and easily fall out of love. But it seems that Julien and Sophie are unable to cope with this exercise in resourcefulness.
“The Eighth Day”, Jaco Van Dormel
Perhaps the most sentimental film by Belgian director Van Dormel. This is the story of the friendship between clerk Harry and Georges. Harry separated from his wife, lost everything he had worked for for many years, and completely forgot how to see beauty in the most ordinary things. Georges spent his entire life in a boarding school for people with developmental disabilities; he has Down syndrome, but he has an invaluable gift – he knows how to look at the world differently. A strange meeting of two absolute opposites will teach Harry to see all the colors of the world, and Georges to perceive reality as it is.
“Mr. Nobody”, Jaco Van Dormel
Nemo is the first man of the future. Thanks to his participation in an unusual experiment, he had a unique opportunity to live his life several times. Each plot twist depends only on himself. A chance kiss – and he guarantees himself a happy fate with his beloved Anna. Forced lateness and the plot will turn upside down, leaving Anna on the sidelines of Nemo’s life, and he will find himself the husband of a completely different woman, who is now destined to die in a car accident on her wedding night. He has the right to make a mistake, but perhaps it is this mistake that will cost him happiness and a serene old age.
“The Last Kiss” by Gabriele Muccino
Not very well known in Russia, this film is not only an ideal image of real Italy, but also a kind of instruction for life after thirty. Carlo is just “slightly in favor”, his life can plunge him into madness with its monotony, and there is nothing ahead of him except a hateful job, a wife, an unborn child and endless, viscous melancholy. But one meeting will change everything. She is a student, and life still seems to her like an entertaining romantic story. It seems to Carlo that this blond girl is capable of returning his wasted youth back to him. So what to choose – love that is fleeting like a dream or familiar reality?
“A thousand times good night”, Eric Poppe
The main character, Rebecca, is a war photographer who takes pictures in hot spots. Her whole life is an endless choice and tossing between what she loves and her family. She witnesses an attack by bandits on a peaceful African village, films a suicide bomber in Turkey preparing for a terrorist attack, and at home her husband and two daughters are waiting for her, who are incredibly tired of the constant uncertainty and fear for their beloved wife and mother. Sooner or later, Rebecca will have to make a choice, and if at first it seems obvious, then as the plot develops, events in the film (as in real life) inevitably make adjustments to her plans.
“Only Lovers Left Alive” by Jim Jarmusch
Subtle irony, impeccable sense of style and beauty. The story is about two vampires who agreed not to drink modern blood in order to avoid infection. She has been living in the east for a long time, he has been living in an abandoned quarter of Detroit, but love, several hundred years long, does not allow them to be at a distance for too long. They meet to listen to good music, dance, sip glasses of quality blood and know nothing about the world around them. But the established life of the vampires in love will be destroyed in an instant by the suddenly appearing sister of the main character.