In the third round of voting the American production Tenet, by Christopher Nolan, was voted film of the year. Starring John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Kenneth Branagh, Dimple Kapadia and Michael Caine, the film immerses the viewer in the world of international espionage. Nolan (Memento, The Dark Knight, Inception, Interstellar, Dunkirk...) produced a science-fiction thriller in which, to prevent a probable Third World War, a secret agent must not only avoid bullets and explosions, but above all learn to master time and manipulate its meaning.
SALW members “particularly appreciated the mind-blowing aspect of the film, in other words its complex, exciting, surprising and hair-raising narrative. The Luxembourg critics appreciated this journey through the time turnstile proposed by the director, with the possible inversion of the thermodynamic time arrow and all that it could imply”, the association writes.
Christopher Nolan thus becomes the first director to win the “SALW Film of the Year” twice; the 50-year-old filmmaker had already been awarded in 2018 for his film Dunkirk.
Tenet was favoured by the members of the Luxembourg Association of the Cinematographic Press, ahead of 1917 by Sam Mendes and the Grand-Ducal co-production (Samsa Film) Collectiv by Alexander Nanau, second and third respectively. The last two finalists were Mank by David Fincher and Dark Waters by Todd Haynes.
Last year, SALW chose Joker by Todd Phillips.
