L'Enfant

saw the majority of L'Enfant. (My version was quite corrupt.) It was touching and sad. It used close-ups a lot which I found annoying. I much prefer long-shots, to isolate and frame, but I guess these work too. I sort of got immediately that L'enfant was L'main character, Bruno, and not actually the baby. He is too innocent of others' emotions to be truly cruel and too impulsive to make it as anything but a career criminal. It is easy and silly to make martyrs out of criminals, but this film doesn't try to do that. Bruno is shown to be deeply flawed and there are times you hate him, but after all he's just a foolish boy grown big. I just wish I could see the scenes I missed.