Best Foreign Films of 2007

Foreign movies which have been nominated for awards in several categories were recently bent (2006) and are now life rated and recognized according to how fresh their material is, the make pleased quality, tale lines, best actors, best directors, etc. There have been several foreign movies which deserve to be mentioned but just a few excel in their genre.

This year’s most successful movie genres have been: Drama/Fiction/Fantasy/Sci-Fi through film such as Pan’s Labyrinth, Drama: Days of Glory and The Lives of Others, etc.

This year, distributors waged Oscar campaigns for their foreign fare, among them Picturehouse for Guillermo del Toro’s “Pan’s Labyrinth,” the Weinstein Co. for the French-Algerian World War II pic “Days of Glory,” Fox Searchlight for Deepa Mehta’s “Water” and Sony Pictures Classics for Pedro Almodovar’s “Volver,” German drama “The Lives of Others” and Zhang Yimou’s “Curse of the Golden Flower.”

Early with Pan’s Labyrinth, a very renowned films which describes the though environment a young modest girl lives through and how she finds a way out through her incredible imagination in order to survive her harsh reality. This film reminds us of the ways children reckon and how we as adults have lost touch with such wonderful imagination. This is without a doubt one of the best recent foreign films done in spanish.

The exquisite film “Days of Glory” is a French-Algerian production which deals with discriminatory behavior of French Africans which is still an issue today, and the conditions leading to a change in government plot. A very heart touching moment in relation to this film occurred at the Cannes Film Festival when the four main actors sang a song which has a sad yet truthful line: “we come from the colonies to save the motherland, we come from afar to die, we are the men of Africa”.

“The Lives of Others”, this film takes place in 1984, east Germany, just previous to the Berlin Wall fall in 1989. This brilliant German production dramatizes the repressive living conditions under a communist regime. Set during the time that Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s movies had saturated world cinema consciousness, The Lives of Others’ stylishness is cool present noir.

From clever exposés of human nature, reality, psychology and social conditions these films stand out and make us reckon about our world’s situation, our part in it and it teaches us about the mistakes people have made in the past so that we don’t fall in the same destructive cycle. These foreign films are right masterpieces of our time.

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