I can’t believe it took me so long to finally watch this. It’s beyond its reputation. Surely one of the greatest films of all time, my choice for the best French film of all time, and certainly the greatest silent film of all time.
In it, is some of the greatest uses of close-ups in cinematic history. A montage of faces capturing the disturbing spectrum of human reactions to banal atrocities and the scope of human emotions and psychology in…