At a meeting of Luxembourg's Film Critics' Association (Association Luxembourgeoise de la Presse Cinématographique, ALPC) on Friday evening, they voted the American-British-French-Dutch production "Dunkirk" as their top film of 2016, narrowly beating "I Daniel Blake" into top spot.
The association met for its 4th General Assembly and considered the top six as voted by its 25 members in an earlier voting round which had considered a total of 291 films that had been screened on general release in Luxembourg cinemas throughout 2017.
The top six films were:
1. Dunkirk, directed by Christopher Nolan, starring Tom Hardy, Fionn Whitehead, Barry Keoghan, Mark Rylance, Jack Lowden
2. La La Land, by Damien Chazelle
3. Moonlight, by Barry Jenkins
4. The Square, directed by Ruben Oslund
5 The Other Side of Hope, directed by Aki Kaurismäkie.
Last year, the ALPC chose Tom McCarthy's Spotlight. The previous winners of the "ALPC Film of the Year" are Birdman, by Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Mommy by Xavier Dolan.
The ALPC was created in 2014 by a group of journalists, employed and freelance, regularly engaged in cinematographic critique. Its members work for print, radio, television and online publications.
