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| | FILMMAKER MAGAZINE | Winter 2001: Talking Pictures |
 | | But what keeps his feather-weight dramas and supercilious characters infinitely engaging is how their actions serve to illuminate complex philosophical and ethical dilemmas. |
 | | Think of Delphine, the irrititatingly depressed secretary heroine of Le rayon vert (1986) and one of the great mise en abymes of dialogue in cinema history: shes at her friends summer cottage, an outsider surrounded by solicitous friends of friends, and she refuses the barbequed pork, politely explaining that shes a vegetarian. |
 | | A polite query follows: "Should we prepare you something else?" "Sorry, we didnt know of your specific dietary needs." She tries her best to brush it off, but as she talks, and the more she talks, the more absurd, grating, hostile, self-defeating, alienating, tragic, weepy her explanations and excuses become. |
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