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Numéro Cinq at the Movies | What I Make of Movies, and What They Make of Me: Rosebud --- Julie Trimingham | Numéro Cinq
In François Truffaut's film, a toddler climbs onto the sill of an open window several stories up, entranced by a cat just out of reach. The toddler slips, plummets. The neighborhood gasps. The camera pans down, an agonizing moment of anticipating a smashed skull, blood on the sidewalk. But there the baby is, sitting up, laughing. A moment of astonishment, resilience and delight that I have held onto, now for decades. ---Julie Trimingham