The big reveal

Fo Fun Friday, what’s an artistic surprise that knocked you out?

I have mentioned that one of my great moviegoing thrills was watching Jacques Becker’s 1960 prison escape movie Le Trou at the National Gallery in DC a few years back. As I described it then: “the audience was practically breathing in rhythm with it, and collectively gasped at the big reveal at the end (don’t worry, I won’t tell you what it is). We all …