Implying nothing in particular even as it cuts young Antoine Doniel's options until even motion is no longer available, the lack of finality in former Cahiers du Cinema critic François Truffaut's "Fin" is a perception-altering moment, one that suggests the cinephiliac relationship Truffaut and his ilk (meaning you, too...) all share with movies, the thrilling sensation that it isn't just life experience that informs movies, but, inversely, that movies themselves give birth to life experience.
Eric Henderson
March 27, 2009