Some more from the past year:
WISH
Watchable. While Alicja Roethel ensures Polish dialogues are funny, dubbing means you won't hear Chris Pine as King Magnifico. What's worse, it's a musical and, at least in Polish, all songs sound the same. The movie contains a few Easter eggs, either direct, like the mention of Zootopia, or indirect, when a deer gawps at lights like in "Peter Rabbit". The plot consists of an original storyline but based on the follow-your-dream cliche. At least all the animals, dancing flowers, talking trees, yawning mushrooms are cute and just delightful.
Luckily the finale and the post-credit music resembles the original Disney theme and the end credits are accompanied by magnificently glowing sketches of old and new Disney cartoon characters. The post-credit scene indicates who and how, at 100 years of age, "inspired future generations".
LA STRANEZZA (STRANGENESS)
Watchable. Italian way, even theatre (my pet peeve) is bearable. Top-notch acting, atmospheric lighting - darkness rather - compel. It makes use of the atmosphere of a poorly lit Italian small town. The plot is: funeral arrangements and a theatre play in the meantime so neither is enticing but it's the way it's acted and shot that save the movie until the finale reveals what this long sequence of the whole town visit and its vision was for in terms of the plot. Originality needs time to be recognised.
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