Keira Knightley as a fierce spirit in the age of the Impressionists…honored to be playing Superintendant Michaud…Zola creating a new language at the same time as Marx, Darwin, Dostoevsky…favorite untranslatable line from original novel “…Religions of the Heart are full of strange delicacies / distinctions / delusions…” additional reading ‘The Other Paris’ by Luc Sante