No attempt to penetrate the balance of sincerity and diabolical artifice, spirituality and sadism, half-baked experimentation and crafted elegance, that make up the von Trier oeuvre.
Along with his likable, confidently sexy leads and an excellent troika in Mr. Slattery, Anthony Mackie and Terence Stamp, Mr. Nolfi keeps the film balanced between sincerity and self-conscious amusement, rarely faltering in tone.
Was it hard to balance satire and sincerity here?
Balance, clarity, strength, sincerity and concern for everyone's needs are needed to achieve important goals like promoting the growth of democracy.
But "Hyde Park on Hudson" also presents a more unsettling portrait of Roosevelt, who, when he's not secretly tippling with the king, can be seen carrying on an affair with his distant cousin, Daisy Suckley Laura Linneyy) — a relationship that, the film suggests, was just one of many such dalliances in which Roosevelt maintained a balance of disarming sincerity and manipulation.
Their films balance raunch and sincerity in a way that no one else can do.
You need to strike a balance between sincerity (needed to cultivate trust) and purposefulness (careful choices to make sure the relationship flows along smoothly).
What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
Jasper's eventual comeuppance involves some overly clever convolutions, but the author's ability to strike a balance between slapstick and sincerity prevents the novel from getting too cute for its own good.
Walking the balance of silliness and sincerity, Hannah and Grace take the magic and bullshit of Gnomesville in equal measure.
