Showing posts with label Le Cercle Rouge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Le Cercle Rouge. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

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.

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