"Wonders Are Many" is Mr. Else's second film to examine this fascinating, chilly figure, after his Oscar-nominated 1981 documentary, "The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb".
Interestingly, I don't think Plummer's Oscar was a kind of sentimentally disguised "career tribute": I suspect the Academy has been fairly indifferent to all the work Plummer has been doing lately and perhaps would be pushed to name many of his screen credits aside from The Sound of Music, in which he was a rather chilly figure, quite different from the warm, sympathetic role he had in Beginners.
The fear was that – for all his oratorical brilliance – Obama somehow lacked empathy, that he was a slightly chilly, aloof figure, that he struggled to connect emotionally.
I don't mean the version that depicts her as a chilly, forbidding figure, but certainly the one that presents her as unashamedly cerebral, an alert and acute thinker who doesn't squander words.
The result is a judicious but ultimately damning portrayal: Jung comes across as a monomaniacal narcissist, a sexually charismatic but chilly and isolated figure, and a man so insistent on finding a key to all mythologies that he was willing to jimmy the lock if necessary.
His tantrum at the IMF, as well as chilly encounters with sympathetic figures, such as the European Commission president, José Manuel Barroso, and Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel, highlight the gulf in understanding.
O'Hagan's prose is diligent and polished, his depiction of vicious class hatreds and vigilantes effective, yet the pompous, chilly Anderton is no tragic figure.
The solution to Chip Kelly's football problems spectacularly revealed itself on a chilly October evening in Northern California: Figure a way to schedule the Cal Bears 12 times each season.
Tonya Harding's newfound media "redemption" is getting a chilly response from one fellow Olympic figure skater. .
I declined, knowing full well that I would last about five minutes max in the chilly waters of the Bay; go figure.
The principal figures in its ideological debate – the chilly, number-crunching executive Robert Duvall, godlike network supremo Ned Beatty and the ambitious, exploitative programmer Faye Dunaway – are vivid caricatures.
