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Pulled my copy out and watched it last night (New Year's Eve). It's still a beautiful film. So elegant.
I was reading a comment (elsewhere) by some idiot (sorry, but that's the best word I can come up with at the moment), who didn't "get" the film because there wasn't any "action" .... nothing "happened."
All I could think of is that for most of the world, most of the time, there's no "action." It's called LIFE. And, it's the way this film captures the moments out of real life, the precious little moments that build relationships, that makes it wonderful.
It's in the characters' faces and the tones of their voices how intensely this friendship (I'm thinking Frank and Helene here, but everyone really) effects them. If I call out any particular moment, I'll be putting in spoilers, and I'd rather not do that ...
But really, I felt like reaching into my computer, grabbing that idiot by his pencil neck and shouting "NOT EVERY MOVIE NEEDS TO HAVE ALIEN TRANSFORMING ROBOTS!!"
Sigh ....
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