There is abundant
quiet dialogue in a film that does succeed in evoking the misery of men and women in an Alaskan town as remote as you can get, and the ensemble performances are spot - on.
Not exact matches
A successful stage director
in New York by the late 1920s, George Cukor began working
in Hollywood as a
dialogue director and filling other uncredited crew roles on such
films as All
Quiet on the Western Front.
A 5.1 Dolby Digital track is somewhat underutilized and a little
quiet, but there is also a lack of any real need for bombastic five - channel audio pyrotechnics
in the
film; all that you need know is the
dialogue sounds clear and the indie soundtrack is appropriately evocative of the Chelsea underground nightlife.
There is very little
dialogue in the
film, with long stretches playing out
in the relative
quiet of sound effects and sparse music that made every cough and seat shift
in the theater a part of the building tension.
The
Quiet American — which Godard wrote about
in 1958, declaring it the best
film of that year — is not only a precedent for Godard's epigrammatic
dialogue but, more important, the inspiration for casting Moll (who plays Mankiewicz's Vietnamese heroine) and for Godard's fascination with the process of translation.