Sentences with phrase «arch knowingness»

A couple of decades ago, this hodgepodge of suspicion and literally steamy sex might have been an Adrian Lyne movie (Lyne's fine Claude Chabrol remake Unfaithful seems to have had some influence on the setting); in today's Hollywood, it's an attempt to replicate the corrosive arch knowingness of David Fincher's Gone Girl adaptation, tasked to Tate Taylor, director of The Help.