While her students are unforgettable, Ms. Mino is the star, a protagonist with a luminous face that hides nothing as she reflects the audience's complicated emotions.
The haunting songs were performed by Petrana Koutcheva, Radostina Kuneva and Neli Andreeva, a singer with a luminous face straight out of a Merchant-Ivory film.
Otherwise, it presents a luminous face to the world.
Amelia Warner, the young actress who plays Lorna, has a sober, luminous face.
Directed with rigor and vigor, featuring Rudolph Mate's austere but vibrant cinematography, it has become an enduring classic because of Renee Falconetti's once-in-a-lifetime performance as the Maid of Orleans, part village girl, part saint, a young woman whose luminous face, shot in enormous close-up from a variety of angles, was both timid and transcendent.
Six feet tall, with silver hair, Sacks has an unlined, mournful, luminous face.
The best known is a work from Sweerts's Italian period, "Boy with a Hat" (circa 1655-56), depicting an appealing adolescent with long blond hair wearing a floppy country hat, his luminous face turned away from the viewer as he gazes dreamily over his right shoulder.
The accompanying video was equally memorable – the close-up of that luminous face, her haunted beauty, a single tear sliding down each cheek.
A luminous clock face appeared on the scrim, and when the clock struck six and the girls were released into the spring twilight the exhilaration of their temporary freedom coalesced gorgeously with Rodgers's sweeping melody.
"I don't watch much television, but I saw her in Beeban Kidron's [1997 feature] Swept from the Sea, with her utterly luminous face and beautiful eyes, giving a wonderful performance.
From our first glimpse of her gripping a glass of wine, Ms. Scott Thomas lets that famously luminous face communicate its own betrayals: The hint of tears, for instance, indicating reserves of pain or the way she visibly stiffens on the word "darling," as spoken by Jerry with an intimacy tantamount at that point to transgression.
