Review | The 10 best films at Sundance 2023

Maybe it was because of the hybrid nature of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, which wraps up Sunday, that I was drawn to movies featuring dual personalities and secret lives.

For the third year running, the annual independent film showcase in Utah had its offerings available online to journalists everywhere and, beginning in its second half, to public audiences in the U.S. But the post-pandemic fest also returned to in-person screenings at the Park City ski town that Sundance founder Robert Redford turned into a film lover’s destination.

FOMO was my constant companion as I screened the festival’s diverse offerings in the comfort of the Moon Cave Cinema, the name I give my basement home theatre. I didn’t miss Park City’s snowy, slushy streets, but I did yearn to be back among my fellow film buffs at Sundance. I felt of two minds, as do many of the protagonists in my personal Top 10 list of Sundance favourites:There are shades of Patricia Highsmith novels and Hitchcock films in this icy suspenser by William Oldroyd , set in 1960s Massachusetts in a town where the penitentiary is the most exciting place. Thomasin McKenzie’s meek title character toils there as a secretary, trying to forget her awful home life caring for her alcoholic and emotionally abusive father .

peterhowellfilm So glad to see Nicole Holofcener back!

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