Not exact matches
Seemingly out
of their elements, Cliff and Cydney make the classic mistake
of befriending the wrong people, a thriller staple, but the filmmaker never goes on automatic pilot; he composes with soft focus photography to give a
sense of ambiguity at key moments whenever both couples are within the
same frame.
«Alias Grace» is built around the unrelenting
ambiguity of its protagonist, and it manages the Herculean effort
of making a six - part miniseries thrum with that
same sense of being adrift in a woman's story without having any idea
of who she really is.
I mean as much as it creates greater
ambiguity, it also reveals both a
sense of history
of the layering
of the paint while, at the
same time, anchoring the whole image so that it doesn't float in the picture plane.