The New Year plays a leading role in having time to watch a film, especially fiction.
Beyond the typical New Year’s resolutions (learning languages, going to the gym …), on the big screen, a robbery can happen, the head of the world, reunions of a couple, pending confessions, even all catastrophes.
For those looking for a different New Year, here are 10 great movies to watch, in a selection from the agency Europa Press.
1. THE FRIENDS OF PETER (1991)
Directed and also starring Kenneth Branagh, Peter (Stephen Fry) takes advantage of his parents not being there to celebrate New Year’s Eve with those friends he hadn’t seen in a long time. A bittersweet reunion, in which frustrations and broken dreams come to light.
Synopsis: Taking advantage of the absence of his parents, Peter (Stephen Fry) invites his best friends, whom he has not seen for years, to celebrate New Year’s Eve in his mansion: they are the dear friends of the school, with those who performed plays and music magazines. Together they have fun, but their problems, their dreams and broken hopes also come to light, but what no one imagines is the surprise that Peter has in store for them for the end of the party.
2. WHEN HARRY FOUND SALLY (1989)
What turns ‘When Harry Found Sally’ into a New Year’s Eve movie is its end, as it’s New Year’s Eve when both protagonists (Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal) reconcile, in a mythical sequence and considered one of the best in the film directed by Rob Reiner and written by Nora Ephron.
3. THE APARTMENT (1960)
One of Billy Wilder’s best films has in the New Year’s Eve celebration one of the most remembered scenes of the film, starring Jack Lennon and Shirley MacLaine. Framed during all the festivities, it is on New Year’s Eve when both characters reveal what they feel.
4. CAROL (2015)
Todd Haynes ’film evokes classic films, with an exceptional ending, in which New Year’s Eve is once again the backdrop. The final reunion between Therese (Rooney Mara) and Carol (Cate Blanchett), in which there are no dialogues, as they are not necessary, in the eyes of both, in which happiness is reflected, the happiness. A gold brooch for a unique film.
5. MY BIG NIGHT (2015)
Because not everything is a love reunion or a group of friends. Álex de l’Església got into the back room of New Year’s Eve recordings, which, as the public knows, take place several weeks before they are broadcast. A false New Year’s scene with which Alex de la Iglesia takes his sharpest gaze back.
6. THE ADVENTURE OF THE POSIDON (1972)
Because New Year can be synonymous with misfortune, if not, to ask the 1,500 passengers on the luxurious transatlantic liner Poseidon, who will go from living a dreamy New Year’s Eve to struggling to survive, after a fierce storm turns to the Poseidon on the Titanic.
7. THE JOURNAL OF BRIDGET JONES (2001)
Because Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger) was one of the most endearing film characters of the 2000s, her reconciliation with Darcy (Colin Firth) just before celebrating New Year made the film one of the most iconic of this decade.
8. DISTRICT 13 ASSESSMENT (2005)
John Carpenter’s cult film remake, ‘Assault on District 13’ mixes thriller, action, crime and New Year’s: what can go wrong in such an explosive combination?
9. NO CONTROLS (2010)
Borja Cobeaga brought one of the best New Year’s Eve films with ‘No controls’, which was the final impetus to Julián López’s film career and in which Unax Ugalde showed that he could make comedy. A very funny film that came from the previous success of ‘Pagafantas’.
10. FOUR ROOMS (1995)
Four different segments, four filmmakers, four stories inside a hotel, all for New Year’s Eve and with a button (Tim Roth) as conductor, on top on his first day of work. The result: a cult ribbon.