Letters to the Editor
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Romeo and Juliette?
What is it about Juliette Binoche that makes us wonder... from how deep the human condition can be resurrected? As in "The Red Balloon," my childhood's fanciful culture, this remake is truly remarkable for its - as expressed perfectly, Stephanie -"unforced" ability to take us along for the flight back into what childhood means - even to adults.
Every man, even Yanks, succumb to the humaneness of Juliette's oft-expressed "artistic, flakiness-cum-passionate character" style. From "Dan in Real Life" to "Smylla's Sense of Snow," she has captured the men (and without doubt many women) in a kind of star-quality rapture - reminiscent of The 30's Movie Stars, yet of such tender gain as to be intelligible.
Making a movie these days in so light and transcendent fashion as this, defeats the terribleness of simpleton powers over the rest of media.
We do shine. It is as children that we all breathe deep inside.