#13 of 28 in the 20th century series

Wow, how did this end up on the list?  I guess the ’90s version of me was going by the formula “unremittingly bleak = quality cinema”.  Or maybe I was trying to look cultured and therefore listed every French movie I had ever seen, forgetting that this was two hours of glacially paced torture of an appealing character (as the title suggests: this is “passion” as in suffering, not as in smoochies).  I couldn’t even get all the way through it this time.

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