Le Ballon rouge (The Red Balloon) Albert Lamorisse 1955 France (1st time) A small school boy living in Belville comes across a red balloon, and all the other kids get jealous. An absolutely absorbing piece of visual cinema, a short film which has been neglected by DVD distributors and lost to oblivion, like the setting itself, which was demolished in the sixties and rebuilt.
Sur mes lèvres (Read My Lips) Jacques Audiard 2001 France (1st time; big screen) A deaf secretary in the property business hires a male ex-con, and gets involved in criminal activity. The ambiguous plot outline is telling: the director here isn't so much interested in the narrative's crime arc as the central relationship between two very credible characters put in a situation which here never rings true.
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