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  1. verdict (ranking): Happening → Saint Omer. Amanda places Happening at four as a clear-eyed thriller structured week by week; Adam later places Saint Omer, another French film, at two.
    “it almost like becomes a thriller of her trying to get the abortion and it goes like week by week”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:52:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (ranking): Saint Omer → Happening. Adam notes Saint Omer was France's Oscar submission over Happening, and says France did not make a bad call.
    “So with all with all respect to happening, which is a really good movie.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:09:02 · Adam Nayman (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. craft (style comparison): Saint Omer → Fred Wiseman. Adam compares the film's endless naturalistic courtroom testimony to a Fred Wiseman or Raymond Depardon movie.
    “it's very much like a Fred Wiseman movie, except, or a Raymond Deppardon movie, except real.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:09:33 · Adam Nayman (0.85 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Saint Omer: Adam describes it as a rigorous courtroom film that plays games with identification while never nudging, pushing, underlining or italicizing.
    “it doesn't underline, it doesn't italicize.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:10:57 · Adam Nayman (0.85 sure it was them)