Marshall Harris: «Dark Matters and other topics for
awkward dinner conversation,» through Thursday; Nicole Longnecker Gallery, 2625 Colquitt; 713-591-4997, longneckergallery.com.
London's Orthodox Jewish enclave is small and hermetic, and Lelio conveys that as much as he can, setting his action in cramped quarters and staging multiple
awkward dinner conversations and whispered arguments in Dovid and Esti's home.
Not exact matches
How we hold our breath until the
awkward conversation is over, until the
dinner has finished and the plates have been wiped clean.
This means that you won't have to sit through an
awkward dinner or stumble through a
conversation because you don't know a thing about one another.
It especially shines in a scene where friends and family gather at the
dinner table, that involves a hilariously
awkward conversation about Abbie's period.
These scenes are overlaid with and interrupted by tension and sudden violence, and the movie wrings as much ridiculous incongruousness from the subtext (brain - melting tension) and text (
awkward conversation about
dinner and board games) of its scenes as possible.
As they conduct
awkward, nervous
conversation over a walk on the beach and
dinner in their room, we get flashbacks to how they met and courted.
I'm not just saying this stuff to extract myself from
awkward conversations at
dinner parties.
This phone
conversation is basically an
awkward blind date without the benefit of a fancy
dinner.