translated from Spanish: Chilean site specializing in film criticism selects the 30 best films of 2019

The film review site El Agente unveils its traditional list of the best films of the year. “With the recent and unfortunate loss of the Alameda Art Center a few days ago and without losing awareness that the manifestations affect how and what cinema we see, we present our traditional listing entitled ‘2019 in 30 films'”, notes Ivan Pinto the director site director.
This is a list of characteristics to be: exhaustive and comprehensive. The one that includes films that usually go more unnoticed, in three circuits: Chilean commercial premieres, international commercial premieres and premieres of the circuit of film festivals in Chile. It is thus a diverse detail that aims to collect both what has been exhibited in commercial theaters, alternative cinemas and the main film festivals.
For Pinto, it is the result “of a rich catalog of films, very different from each other, that show us an X-ray of the images that passed through our film circuit.”
 The Irishman, by Martin Scorsese
Each coach had to choose his 15 favorite films of the year, which was giving a list that concluded with: The Irishman, by Martin Scorsese, rising with a wide advantage as the favorite of 2019. The top 5 is completed once in Hollywood, by Quentin Tarantino, Young Savages of Bertrand Mandico, We are a family of the Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda, and Vitalina Varela of the Portuguese Pedro Costa.
“The content is a movie-to-movie review, with links that give the full notes of the site throughout the year. It is a ranking that also serves as a ‘constellation’ of relevant films. Unlike other lists focused only on international commercial releases, this one has the specificity of including other billboard circuits such as alternative ones, and settling the interest of the premieres made in the hall, visibility of distributors, independent halls, film festivals,” says Pinto.
The presence of Chilean films always takes on relevance in the annual summary of El Agente. This year’s list is loaded with names of consecrated directors, such as Ignacio Agéero, Dominga Sotomayor, José Luis Torres Leiva or the couple of filmmakers Carolina Adriazola and José Luis Sepúlveda. It should be noted that some of his films have been screened only at certain Film Festivals, so fewer respondents have seen them, which may have an impact on their lowest scores.
The full list can be viewed in elagentecine.cl, along with the details of the participants.
Agent Cinema is an independent film critics site operating since 2012 with reviews, chronicles, Chilean film interviews, international film and festival circuit. With this annual ranking, the site closes the year 2019 with more than 200 articles in its archive of the year, among which you will find: film critics, chronicles of film festivals, interviews, opinion columns. The site has the financing of the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage through the audiovisual fund, line of dissemination in digital media, call 2019.

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