The intimacy of writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve’s Maya is as precise as its intellect is vague.
Spotless Blu-ray presentations such as this will offer the best possible version of comparatively lesser-known gems in Altman’s career.
The film remains one of cinema’s great, persuasive testaments to the flimsiness of the precarious tightrope walk that is our lives.
If the remake stinks, that’s only because it removes the moody pacing and reveals the essential silliness under the former’s classy Euro-glaze.