Interspersing lively insights from Mr. Cunningham with affectionate stories from longtime friends and subjects -- socialites, editors, models, eccentrics, dandies, avant-gardists, curators and neighbors -- Mr. Press has created an intimate portrait that feels more found or captured than it does constructed.
An affectionate appraisal of the work of Ken Loach, and an insight into the man himself, it reaches cinemas just after his most recent feature, I, Daniel Blake, won the Palme d'Or at Cannes.
He's a most peculiar mixture of Warden and Prewitt, very complex, very noisy, very crude, very affectionate, amazing you first with his naïveté and then with his shrewdness and insight.
This barbed comedy about school-gate politics delivers on the hype: it mercilessly sends up middle-class smuggery, but it's also an affectionate portrait of how the world can shrink when you have small children, with genuine insights into female friendship.
It's fascinating fare, offering both an insight into the emergence of Depardon's still influential "direct cinema" aesthetic, and an affectionate portrait of a unique visual artist and cultural archivist.
In one scene Mr. Mackie and Mr. Renner trade stomach punches in a ritualistic display of affectionate aggression that looks as if it will end in either sex or murder, and Ms. Bigelow's insight is that the tense comradeship of soldiers rests, often tenuously, on barely suppressed erotic and homicidal impulses.
Affectionate partner to Bob.
She was more affectionate.
"If they're affectionate, they're affectionate!" he said.
The affectionate sparring continued.
