On the list of the top 100 films in film history selected by " Sight and Sound " just announced, there are many works that are familiar to the audience. If you want to say which works on the best film list are the most slanted, it is the top ten films of the year selected by the French "Cahiers du Cinéma" magazine on the other side of the sea. Also on December 1, local time, the latest list for 2022 was released, with Spanish director Albert Serra's "Suffering on the Island" at the top of the list.

A new issue of Cahiers du Cinema featuring Torment on an Island on the cover.

The top ten films of the year in Cahiers de la Cahiers are usually selected by more than a dozen French film critics including the editors of the magazine. "The top ten of the year. Since the threshold for the selected films is the films that have officially landed in French theaters in the past 12 months, there are often "old films" that have been released in North America and other places in the previous year. A Cow is the work of American director Kelly Reichardt, which will be officially released in 2020. "Licorice Pizza", which ranks second this year, is the work of American director Paul Thomas Anderson, which will be released in 2021.

This year's No. 1 "Torment on an Island" is the exact opposite. The thriller, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May, won't be officially released in the United States until 2023. However, in many film screenings, including the Beijing International Film Festival, "Suffering on the Island" has already received a round of bipolar reviews.

Torment on the Island poster

Two French-language works on this year's Top Ten list are Patricia Mazzo's "Bowling for Saturn" and Alain Giraudi's "Follow Me." There are two works by Asian directors, namely Ryusuke Hamaguchi's "Accident and Imagination" and Hong Changxiu's "Introduction". Both of them are regulars on the "Movie Handbook", and it is no surprise that they were shortlisted.

As for the works that won the highest honors in the three major European film festivals this year, the Berlin Golden Bear Award winner "Alcaraz" and the Venice Golden Lion Award winner "Beauty and Bloodshed" have not yet been released in France. The Cannes Film Festival, which will be officially released in September Palme d'Or winner "Triangle of Sorrows" lost.

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"Film Handbook" Top Ten of 2022 (ranked by the number of votes)

1. Torment on an Island Director: Albert Serra

2. "Licorice Pizza" Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

3. "No" Director: Jordan Peele

4. "The Donkey" Director: Jerzy Skolimowski

5. "Accident and Imagination" Director: Ryusuke Hamaguchi

6. "Bowling Saturn" Director: Patricia Mazur

7. "Apollo 10½: Childhood in the Space Age" Director: Richard Linklater

8. "Introduction" Director: Hong Changxiu

9. Come With Me Director: Alain Giraudi

10. "Who Can Stop Us" Director: Jonas Trueba