I'm afraid to say I never gotten to that yet.  And yes--foreign films does attain that discreet affection for how it treats its human characters.  Especially from what I've seen on Kurosawa's, or Tarkovsky's, or Kieslowski's, Traffaut, Yakusho and Majidi.  Maybe because of their culture--that they make these kind of films, devoid of the sugar coating and violence one might find in the movies Hollywood dishes out nowadays?

Who knows, but what I do know--is I want to know who that character is!

Erik