2019 has been widely called a great year for cinema, and yes, many great films were made. If I had to tier them, however, PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE and PARASITE stand a shade above the rest. This is a high point in romance cinema—a film not only devoted to a deep, bubbling affection, but a film that interrogates memory, how we people, and the meaning, both fleeting and deep-rooted, we can find. The sound in this film…