This was the year's most memorable and original film for me. It follows a French diplomat's interaction with locals in Tahiti. There’s a vague plot about a rogue French Admiral restarting nuclear bomb tests. In a Q&A after the film, the director Albert Serra talked about his method with the actors. Basically he used improvisation. He would give one actor in a scene the script and the others would have to improvise a response without really knowing what the scene was about. Remarkably, it captures the body language of culture clash so well. The cinematography with long takes and a mostly still camera frame was claustrophobic. But the film was lush with wildly oversaturated colors. Overall, a cross between Dr Strangelove and the Rainbow Warrior bombing story.