Barcelona met Real Madrid in the Champions League semi-finals in 2011, with the contest marred
by ugly scenes from the management after it kicked off on the touchline.
But the final whistle was marred
by ugly scenes as England staff and players were attacked by their opponents and raciallly abused by the home fans.
Not exact matches
The team have been galvanised since the
ugly scenes at their 3 - 0 home defeat to Burnley on March 10, and former Stoke striker Marko Arnautovic has been the figurehead of that recovery after two goals in a 3 - 0 win over the Saints was followed
by a resolute team display that helped them to a 1 - 1 draw at Chelsea.
Conferees are of course still bound
by the need to get the final bill passed in both bodies, but working behind the
scenes they're more able to make the swaps and changes to shape a bill (however
ugly) that'll get enough votes to survive.
There are many good
scenes, and it is helped immensely
by the lead actress, Marion Cotillard, who gives an appropriately beautiful,
ugly, bold and brave performance as the doomed singer.
The precise evolution of her feelings during the final
scene is crucial, but I was also touched
by her tenderness in earlier
scenes; she plays a kind woman who has been deposited into an
ugly situation
by the inertia and hopelessness of alcoholism.
Alas, the plot does rear its
ugly head all too often, especially in a very tiresome finale on top of «Mt. Richmore», which is meant to echo a similar
scene in Hitchcock's North
by Northwest, a film that is paid homage to at least twice (a television shows the famous crop - dusting
scene, perhaps as a bit of foreshadowing).
The 1.78:1, 16x9 - enhanced transfer is handicapped at the outset
by an
ugly yellow cast added in post (as the untreated deleted
scenes demonstrate), but the image isn't helped
by the slight solarization and a scrim of video noise introduced at the telecine level.