> That's what I object to -- _fateful chance encounters_.
Tsk-tsk. The only kind worth having!
> director, should be credited). It would have been quite interesting
> if a post-socialist Polish director had made a sharper political
> statement on the integration & expansion of the European market (in
> which the French Tricolor -- Liberty, Equality, & Fraternity -- fades
> out & the American Red, White, & Blue fades in).
There's nothing American (that polite code word for neoliberal) about "Tricoleur", its savage satire of marketization East and West, its powerful gender revolution (strong women who control their own images, men forced to pay for their voyeurism), or its amazing conclusion, which is directly in the tradition of your homeboy, Walter Benjamin. The shipwreck is the salvation!
-- Dennis