Best Picture Of The Year

I used to love lists, especially movie lists because I'm so obsessed with the order of things, so it was important for me to arrange everything.

Now I don't really like this kind of list, because it is very variable through time and it is very reductive of the concept we're analyzing. The movies I choose and the order I choose always depend on the mood in the moment of the choice, just like what I feel about a movie and how it stays in my mind depends of the mood I was in when I watched it.

Anyway the idea is: each of the members of The Royal Films Club has to choose the top ten movies ordered of 2012. The movies we can consider are the ones which arrived to the Portuguese Theaters during this year.

So although this task is difficult for me, I don't have any doubt about the first title:

Shame was the movie of the year for me. And I know that this choice will remain in time, since Shame is one of those ageless movies, which portrays emotions that affect every single one of us. 

The three titles that follow are wonderful too. Then we have a solid number five. And afterwards we might have some variations. 

This was the final list I came up with:

1 - Shame (by Steve McQueen)
2 - Moonrise Kingdom (by Wes Anderson)
3 - L'Artist (by Michel Hazanavicius)
4 - Hugo (by Martin Scorcese)
5 - Argo (by Ben Affleck)
6 - The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (by Peter Jackson)
7 - Florbela (by Vicente Alves do Ó)
8 - Cloud Atlas (by Lana Wachowski, Andi Wachowski and Tom Tykwer)
9 - Brave (by Mark Andrews, Brend Chapman and Steve Purcell)
10 - Lawless (by John Hillcoat)

This exercise made me realize that we had some interesting pictures this year, but Shame is definitely the movie to remember. It was an outstanding picture which will prevail.