Ebert’s Top 10 Foreign Language Films…

…of 2008 and a couple left over from 2007.

Well worth a click to Mr. Ebert’s site, where his 50-word summaries of each film can be savored without me trying to pick and chose the best phrases — because they’re already distilled to their best essence. Though I can’t resist baiting the hook with this description of Let the Right One In:

A powerful reminder that vampires, if there were vampires, would not be a joke… Not for fans of “Twilight.”

• “A Christmas Tale”
• “The Duchess of Langeais”
• “The Edge of Heaven”
• “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days”
• “A Girl Cut in Two”
• “I’ve Loved You So Long”
• “The Last Mistress”
• “Let the Right One In”
• “Tell No One”
• “XXY”