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 19th century setting, no music over the credits …
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