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Deadline’s Best International Films Of 2024
Deadline's critics choose their Top 3 international movies of 2024 and explain the reasoning behind their picks.
Coming from the screenwriting and now directing team of Alexandre de la Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte, who recently did similar treatment to Dumas’ The Three Musketeers, this thrilling tale of a man who escapes after being wrongly imprisoned for 14 years to exact revenge on those who put him there is the stuff great adventure movies are made of, and this one with a terrific lead performance by Pierre Niney as Edmund Dantes aka Count of Monte-Cristo fills the bill and more. Featuring astounding performances from Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and Adriana Paz who all shared the Cannes honor, this story of a drug cartel boss who decides to change his life and his gender is perhaps the most original film you will see all year, and even on its second viewing it only gets better. Ostensibly an abortion drama, a genre that traditionally sends distributors running screaming to the hills, Kulumbegashvili’s film is a sophisticated portrait of a very complicated woman, an experienced obstetrician on trial after one of her patients loses her unborn child.
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