Some of the pair's juxtapositions have a cruel before - and - after irony, as when
an early mirror shot of Mrs. Kennedy applying her makeup is itself mirrored by another shot of her wiping blood and tears off her face, later the same fateful day.
You could see similar elements in Lodge Kerrigan's chilly «Claire Dolan» (with a dash of Polanski in there — an unsettling manicure scene followed by a startling
shot involving a
mirror on an armoire)-- and, sure enough, it turns out that the young, unknown Bahrani so admired Kerrigan's work that he sent him an
early cut of the film and asked for Kerrigan's advice.