Review of Henri Langlois: The Phantom of the Cinémathèque (2005) by Michael Atkinson for Village Voice — 26 Jun 2010

While the astonishing street footage of "l'affaire Langlois"--perhaps more familiar to the French than to us--is where this exhaustive talking-heads portrait becomes beautifully, bafflingly surreal, the whole project, however conventional, has the allure of a communal embrace, a home movie of a motherland left irrevocably in the past.