I expected to dislike The Green Ray. Then the film began to pay attention to small discomforts: a cancelled plan, a conversation that goes slightly wrong, the way a person stands when she would rather be somewhere else.
What changed my mind was the pace. Nothing rushes to make the protagonist agreeable. A scene about the green ray arrives almost casually, and the sound of people talking makes the landscape feel like another person in the room. I did not leave with a lesson. I left looking at sunset differently.
