One of my favorite movies of all time is finally on DVD. It's "Au Revoir Les Enfants" by Louis Malle. And it comes in a set with two movies by the same director. I just saw one of them called "Murmur of the Heart" a fascinating film about growing up. Only someone like Louis Malle could make a warm, funny, sad, poignant movie that ends up in an incest scene and make it seem normal, natural and heartwarming. Like Francois Truffaut, he knew how to capture the small things in life and he was excellent in capturing childhood and adolescence. Both were true geniuses and both died too young.
I still have "Lacombe Lucien" to see and, of course, I still have "Au Revoir Les Enfants" to enjoy again. Although "enjoy it" is not the word to describe the experience of watching it, it's more like to "think with it", to "feel with it".
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