It's the sort of role you'd expect to see Catherine Keener in rather than the woman who played those memorable hard - edged
women in Dazed and Confused, The House of Yes, and Kicking and Screaming.
Not exact matches
When the first contingent arrived at Letchworth Garden City
in Hertfordshire, they seemed
dazed for they had been «hiding for a fortnight or more behind hedges and
in woods»; «one old
woman had been driven out of her bed by the German soldiers, and actually arrived
in London
in her night clothes.»
The
dazed evacuees
in its sports hall are mostly
women and children.
A 23rd Century New York cabbie (Willis, Beavis and Butthead Do America) has an unexpected passenger
in the form of Leeloo (Jovovich,
Dazed and Confused), a
woman who is the «supreme being» sent to save the universe from death first needing the four elements
in the form of blocks to do so.
The road to revelation involves some of the more tired horror - movie cliches, like a trip to look at archived newspapers, a scene
in which a
dazed woman sings Hush Little Baby
in a faraway voice, and a visit from an exposition - spouting Catholic priest.
We're introduced to Frances (Gerwig, brimming with her usual slightly
dazed charm), a twentysomething
woman sort of living
in New York (though without an apartment to call her own) and sort of training to be a dancer (though she's not an official member of the dance company she works with).
The show's narrative itself is hard to follow, but each performance shares a common theme of brightly - lit costumes, robotics, scantily clad 20 - something Japanese
women, lasers and a throbbing musical soundtrack that will leave you
in a
daze an hour and a half later as you stumble onto the busy streets outside.