Not fool's gold but real gold

A pecu­li­arly trans­port­ive cine­mat­ic exper­i­ence that was “pure tor­ture” for at least one mem­ber of its ostens­ible tar­get audi­ence: ladies and gen­tle­men, Sally Potter’s The Gold Diggers, her knot­tily beau­ti­ful debut fea­ture, the sub­ject of this morn­ing’s Foreign Region DVD Report, at The Auteurs’.