10. Ida
Pawe Pawlikowski took a radical detour away from the contemporary dramas of Last Resort and My Summer Of Love with Ida, taking audiences back to post-war Poland and focusing on a young woman on the verge of becoming a nun who is instructed to meet her aunt before taking her vows. It isn't simply the austere yet beautiful cinematography by ukasz Żal and Ryszard Lenczewski which recalls the work of Ingmar Bergman - Ida's journey into her past, as she comes to understand her Jewish parentage and how they placed her in a convent to spare her from death at the hands of the Nazis also brings to mind Bergman's obsession with religious identity and social conformity. Critics proclaimed Ida a classic the moment it was released, and few movies released this decade have justifiably been given this appellation. Agata Trzebuchowska's debut cinematic performance in the title role is a revelation - it'll be interesting to see where her career goes from here.