>And I have a bet against myself here, so...
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>what was the best foreign movie (that is, from a country speaking a different language than yours) that you saw this year?

I agre with Tracy, Joyeux Noel. Though, movies at least partially in other languages that I liked this year were Babel and Three Burials.

I think you would like "Everything Is Illuminated"
'A young Jewish American man endeavors to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II in a Ukrainian village, that was ultimately razed by the Nazis, with the help of a local who speaks weirdly funny broken English.'
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0404030/

That movies understands and succesfully uses the long silences of eastern European films.