Unlike the previous decade, which dragged its feet on deciding what it wanted to do with itself until well over halfway through its tenure, the aught-years of the 21st century came online seemingly immediately. The international film scene, which had been percolating intensely under the surface of Hollywood for years, exploded onto the cinematic scene more bombastically than at any other point in the medium’s history except, maybe, for the golden years of the 1950s. Gone were the…