Sentences with phrase «knockabout nature»

Baird's direction is of a similarly heedless, knockabout nature, filching from other filmmakers with magpie abandon: Kubrick in the sweaty, distortive use of closeup, Fassbinder in an arch, unexpectedly resolved strain of Germanic camp, and Gilliam in Robertson's fantasy sessions with swollen - headed shrink Jim Broadbent — perhaps the film's least successful flight of fancy.