In Centrale, an incident almost takes place between two characters waiting in a street. The woman is talking quite sociably to the man although he pays her no attention whatsoever. After a few anxious seconds, you realize he isn’t even facing her - the camera is filming two scenes at once with the aid of a cunningly angled mirror. I guess this is a lesson in legibility: how we read speech and body language in the absence of sound.
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