La Cité des Enfants Perdus
(Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1995) It sounds better in French—a language you don’t speak and one I barely understand, squinting to keep track of the subtitles in our fifth-floor walk-up on Amsterdam and 106th, where, as the tape shifts from supply to take up reel, you predict one day you’ll give birthto a son …