Marcel, the Shell With Shoes on and the Shell With Shoe On

There's something very basic and naive and unmediated about Marcel himself. Part of why we have access to his inner life so much is that he somehow is offering himself up very naively. The film ends with Marcel's kind of German idealism, you know, being one with nature and feeling at home in nature. It has a certain lightness to it but there's always an undercurrent of melancholy. There's always anundercurrent of insufficiency. And that I think is what makes it such a totally unusual and deeply strange and brilliant work of art.