Haigh adjusts to a different
kind of storytelling here: «Weekend» was fairly dialogue - heavy (as was, to an extent, his little - seen debut «Greek Pete»), and unlike «45 Days,» he can't substitute dialogue with a meaningful glance from Charlotte Rampling.
Not exact matches
The film bustles along through a series
of reveals — a
storytelling technique that can lose an audience's sympathy or suspension
of disbelief pretty fast, but which works flawlessly
here because the filmmakers and the performers know exactly who their characters are and what
kind of world they live in.
«Old - fashioned» remains mainly a compliment
here; it refers to efficient
storytelling, a victory
of some
kind for each character (except one minor player), and English - language stars who put on accents with mixed success to play South Americans.
There's
kind of a subtle beauty to faded color on top
of color or top
of color... Anyway, without getting too «art school»
here, I think the important thing is that comic art is unique in that its really about
storytelling.