The Kind of Experience That Makes You Glad Movies Exist

A. O. Scott in the New York Times on the 2003 re-release of Le Cercle Rouge, which will be screened Friday at Page Hall:

"There are... moments of breathtaking strangeness and blunt emotional force: cold-blooded shootings, creepy-crawly alcoholic hallucinations, spangly dancers and nighttime streets. These things could exist -- could look like this, or seem to mean anything -- only in movies. Le Cercle Rouge offers the kind of experience that makes you glad movies exist." More.