Gatiss, when we meet in a London cafe, proves as sumptuously whiskered as Cavor.
It's hard not to think he'd be happier in another more innocent and sumptuously whiskered age.
Sumptuously photographed by Eric Gautier, it has fine performances by Emmanuelle Béart, Charles Berling, and Isabelle Huppert, and a ball scene to rival "The Magnificent Ambersons".More sumptuous still, and virtually edible, is "A la verticale de l'été", filmed in Hanoi by Tran Anh Hung, who is rightly famous for a film he shot in France in 1993, "The Scent of Green Papaya".
"A Royal Game" uses ships from the Spanish Armada as chess pieces; its two figures are sumptuously detailed on a peculiar tomb-like plinth.
They are remarkable: epic, sumptuously colourful and often mesmerisingly beautiful.Many have been included in "No Foreign Lands", a survey of Mr Doig's later paintings and works on paper, which opens at the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh on August 3rd.
Who else would begin a sumptuously illustrated cookbook with a photograph of a turntable, followed by a story about the trials of an art dealer having his portrait painted?
In recent years, illegally copied DVDs from China have flooded the country, enabling citizens of the world's most repressive state to see how sumptuously their southern cousins live.Because family members left behind are persecuted, whole-family defections are also becoming more common.
Sitting in a sumptuously restored tsarist mansion that his car-dealing company Logovaz runs as a business club, he quickly adds a caveat: "It is impossible to buy feelings.
"Bullets Revisited #3" (pictured top, 2012) by the Moroccan-born Lalla Essaydi depicts an olive-skinned woman draped across a sumptuously bejewelled bed against an ornately tiled wall.
The princess magically transforms into a baby who grows, at an alarming rate, into a young woman of exquisite beauty, and is whisked away by her adoptive parents to a regal life more befitting her.Not only does "The Tale of the Princess Kaguya" set itself well apart from anything you're likely to see by Disney these days, it's also miles away from Studio Ghibli's own sumptuously detailed style.
Some have retreated into action thrillers, others, like Mr Chen and Mr Zhang, into sumptuously filmed costume dramas, where the production values sometimes outclass the scripts.All, however, is not lost.
