re: #5 Charles

It’s a really good short film, by the way. Very twisted in a good way.

Sinister would be a better word, and I know where of I speak. Look carefully at those grey images and the world they portray. It’s a little government-financed (note the credits at the beginning) parable about the end of an admirable civilization and what used to be pretty wonderful people. It’s all summed up near the end, at around 11:22. Amelie aside, this is pretty much representative of French creativity these days. A vision of a sort of post-Soviet existential hell in various shades of grey. Tourists and visitors generally don’t see it: they’re moving targets. Anyone who has lived here for any length of time will know exactly what I’m talking about.