My Favorite Movies: City Lights (1931)
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Lars Van Trier, the Danish film director, doesn’t make happy movies. He makes films that are masterful works of art, but are never-the-less soaked in melancholy and overtures of gloom. His favorite subjects are women under various forms of physical or mental abuse who are facing the end of their definition of bliss or happiness. […]