10/10: Albert Serra

Albert Serra, the director of Pacifiction, currently playing in theaters, and films such as The Death of Louis XIV, Liberté and Story of My Death, shares his ten favorite films from the past ten years.

(in no particular order)

1. Long Day's Journey into Night (Bi Gan, 2018)

2. Climax (Gaspar Noé, 2018)

3. Story of My Death (Albert Serra, 2016)

4. Staying Vertical (Alain Guiraudie, 2016)

5. Hard to Be a God (Aleksei German, 2013)

6. Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard, 2014)

7. Western (Valeska Grisebach, 2017)

8. The Woman Who Left (Lav Diaz, 2016)

9. An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo, 2018)

10. Elle (Paul Verhoeven, 2016)

and a bonus:

11. Wicked Games (Ulrich Seidl, 2023)

10/10 is an ongoing series in which we ask cinephiles to name their ten favorite films from the last ten years (currently, between 2013 and 2023).