Sentences with phrase «streamlined focus of the film»

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The determined absence of dialogue for large swathes of the film — superbly shouldered by Blair's array of facial tics, if laboured a little when left too long — is paramount to its streamlined structure, which focuses firmly on actions and reactions, and the incitement to both.

The film is loosely based on a string of real French robberies from the early 1980s, but director Oliver Marchal doesn't bend over backwards trying to conform to some detailed procedural schematic, and the material benefits from a gritty, streamlined telling that keeps the focus first and foremost on the characters and not the ancillary mayhem that surrounds them and that they later cause.