Well into Manohla Dargis’ New York Timesdispatch from the 2012 Cannes Film Festival is a word worth savoring, McMeasured:
The festival’s prejudice toward — or, more generously, its loyalty to — favorite auteurs has been routinely held against its programmers, as if filmmakers and their works should only be McMeasured by the millions and billions served.
It’s quality versus quantity in a single, artful word.
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