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June 17, 2012, Sunday
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IN this category of English movies, timeless narratives featuring different emotional life stories have been selected. All are award-winning films or have been nominated for some of the most prestigious awards. These are five of the best.
The 2011 film adaptation of Emily Bronte's classic novel "Wuthering Heights" offers a gritty, bleak depiction of the Yorkshire Moors, complementing the intensity of doomed lovers Cathy and Heathcliff. Directed by award-winning director Andrea Arnold, the film won Best Cinematography at the 2011 Venice Film Festival.
Another title by Andrea Arnold, "Fish Tank" won the Jury Prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and the 2010 BAFTA for Best British Film. The protagonist is volatile and isolated 15-year-old Mia Williams. One day her mother brings home a stranger who changes their lives.
Mike Leigh's "Another Year" follows a year in the lives of Tom and Gerri, a happily married late-middle-aged couple surrounded by unhappy friends, colleagues and family. It was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the 2010 Oscars.
Lynne Ramsay's "We Need to Talk About Kevin" deals with parenthood and a mother's struggles to come to terms with her son Kevin after he commits a massacre at his high school.
Adapted from Lionel Shriver's novel, the cast includes Ezra Miller as Kevin and Tilda Swinton, who picked up many awards for her role as the mother.
Sam Taylor-Wood's "Nowhere Boy" is a biopic about John Lennon's adolescence, his relationship with his guardian aunt and his birth mother's re-entry in his life. "Nowhere Boy" was released on the 70th anniversary of Lennon's birth and stars Aaron Johnson as Lennon.
The 2011 film adaptation of Emily Bronte's classic novel "Wuthering Heights" offers a gritty, bleak depiction of the Yorkshire Moors, complementing the intensity of doomed lovers Cathy and Heathcliff. Directed by award-winning director Andrea Arnold, the film won Best Cinematography at the 2011 Venice Film Festival.
Another title by Andrea Arnold, "Fish Tank" won the Jury Prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and the 2010 BAFTA for Best British Film. The protagonist is volatile and isolated 15-year-old Mia Williams. One day her mother brings home a stranger who changes their lives.
Mike Leigh's "Another Year" follows a year in the lives of Tom and Gerri, a happily married late-middle-aged couple surrounded by unhappy friends, colleagues and family. It was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the 2010 Oscars.
Lynne Ramsay's "We Need to Talk About Kevin" deals with parenthood and a mother's struggles to come to terms with her son Kevin after he commits a massacre at his high school.
Adapted from Lionel Shriver's novel, the cast includes Ezra Miller as Kevin and Tilda Swinton, who picked up many awards for her role as the mother.
Sam Taylor-Wood's "Nowhere Boy" is a biopic about John Lennon's adolescence, his relationship with his guardian aunt and his birth mother's re-entry in his life. "Nowhere Boy" was released on the 70th anniversary of Lennon's birth and stars Aaron Johnson as Lennon.
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