Why the Multiplex Went Multilingual
Audiences don’t hesitate to watch subtitled films anymore. A new wave of international Oscar contenders, including Sentimental Value, No Other Choice and The Secret Agent, is meeting that demand.
Renate Reinsve and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas star in the Norwegian Oscar hopeful Sentimental Value.
Photographer: Kasper Tuxen/Cannes Film FestivalOscar watchers expect this year’s best picture award to go to one of these cinematic spectaculars: Ryan Coogler’s genre-busting Sinners; the second lavish installment of Jon M. Chu’s Wicked; Chloé Zhao’s sumptuous adaptation of the celebrated novel Hamnet; or One Battle After Another, the thrilling, violent and terribly topical epic from auteur Paul Thomas Anderson.
Then again, the trophy might go to a family drama that may have cost less than the catering budget on one of those other contenders, directed by someone from a country with a population smaller than Wisconsin’s.