If an alien landed here tomorrow, and they happened to be interested in film, and they asked me what film is—like what it actually is as a concept—I would show them Ménilmontant.
Because it’s perfect, in its way. This 37-minute film is packed with everything that makes a movie a movie. It’s pure silence, with no intertitles. There is no causality. It’s …
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