A Friday Lagniappe: The Taste of Things

A film by Tràn Anh Hùng, starring Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel

I saw this movie yesterday for the second time in three days, and I must confess I don’t think a film has struck me so deeply since I was taken to Bambi when I was five or six years old.

First of all: There is no music. No music at all, not even a genteel thread of background Brahms appropriate to the late 19^th century setting, no music over the credits …