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A clever sequence in which dancers slapped one another's hands with varying intensity suggested states of playfulness, squabbling and reconciliation.

It's nearly two minutes long, and I was starting to get a bit bored in the middle, but I certainly liked the clever sequence at the end: a flurry, with a pregnant pause between the effects.

A special-effects team had engineered this clever sequence by laying the naked baby on his back on a pane of glass suspended horizontally over a large photo of blue sky.

In one scene, the group must mime its way through an invisible obstacle course — a clever sequence that would have worked even better if the rest of the factory wasn't basically invisible as well.

There is a clever sequence in which an actress with her arm in a sling approaches a stairway with one banister rail, tries to get a purchase on the rail's shadow, hopelessly clutches some tiny light fittings before eventually sliding down the actual rail.

Between the sex scenes are numerous touches confirming the writer's absolute mastery of TV: the elegant way he uses the restaurant smoking ban to give two characters a chat outside, or a clever sequence in which it becomes completely credible that, despite everyone having the smartest phones, a series of key messages fails to reach Henry.

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Episode 7 starts with another clever title sequence.

The last twenty seconds of sound and image are given over to Utley's rhino moans, and a clever credit sequence of which even Jean-Luc Godard would approve.

Brought into the prospering family business (a tannery) by his father-in-law, Pierre spends his days in comfortable ennui and his nights in sexual frustration (revealed in a jaw-droppingly strange and clever dream sequence), which he hopes to cure with his comely new secretary (Nicole Kalfan), his contemplated pursuit of whom builds to a giant wind-up toy of ludicrously intricate complications.

There's little in the film that isn't in the comic: the most original addition is a clever credit sequence, condensing the back story into a series of tableaux vivants taking us from the 1940s to the 1980s, via Dealey Plaza and Apollo 11.

One of the most audacious American movies of 2009, Jared Hess's "Gentlemen Broncos" (on DVD from Fox) — a loopy comedy that blends frumpy down-market vulgarity with excremental humor and cartoonish, yet astonishingly simple and clever, action sequences — is hardly the type to attract Oscar consideration.

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