Sentences with phrase «cruel aesthetes»

Closer to The Piano Teacher than The Red Shoes, it's a half - exhilarating, half - forehead - smacking fairy tale about cruel aesthetes and the disintegrating / exultant pull of darkness, opening in the realm of dream and proceeding through a gleeful maelstrom of mirror shots, pirouetting camerawork, and corporeal punishment (toes, tendons, and cuticles get plenty of extreme close - up attention).