In the film, it forms the structure of the characters' relationship….
Mr. Gilliam and Mr. Dunbar convey the erotic subtext of their characters' relationship without overemphasizing it.
The characters' relationship with each other is at first mysterious and baffling.
During the workshop Mr. Cherkaoui asked the two stars to perform a 20-minute improvisation charting their characters' relationship.
It shuttled back and forth in time between the beginning and the end of the main characters' relationship.
I would have been happy to have spent more time watching these performers work out their characters' relationship, however predictably.
Mr. Hammer even misled Ms. Riggs and Micheal J. Smith, who plays Lawrence, about their characters' relationship.
Planned or not, the age disparity between these performers provided an extra frisson of tension in their characters' relationship.
When I was writing That Face, I listened to Love Her Madly by the Doors, which seemed to say a lot about the characters' relationship with their mother.
He said the scenes needed to match the emotions portrayed in other aspects of the characters' relationship, which frays under the strain of not being able to conceive.
But the broken, jagged heart of this production belongs to Ms. Rodriguez and Mr. Cannavale, who turn their characters' relationship into a bruising, tragicomic apache dance of love, betrayal and indecision.
