Stillman understands caste, class and deportment as perfectly as Audrey's idol, Jane Austen and by the time he's through, so do we.
The first Bond movie was directed by Terence Young, who as an upper-middle-class chap gave Sean Connery some lessons in gentlemanly deportment, and as a journeyman director knew that if you drove at 150mph all the time the audience would lose all sense of speed.
For Calvin there were three tests: the profession of faith, as with Zwingli; a rigorously disciplined Christian deportment, as with the Anabaptists; and a love of the sacraments, which meant the Lord's Supper, since infant baptism was not to be repeated.
Matthew Castleman smolders as old flame Lovborg, Steve Beall cackles like a villain as the judge and Jewell Robinson brings 19th-century deportment as Aunt Julia, baffled by practically everything this Hedda does.
The latter opportunity was declined by Bo for several reasons - primarily a principled refusal to appear on a programme that considered Jan Leeming a celebrity - and it must said that throughout, she carried herself with the same poignantly grand deportment as Stephanie seemed to be affecting in the Bungalow of the Damned last night.
She has the deportment of a dressage equestrian.
Hunched, shabby and despised, Ui is transformed only when he takes lessons in deportment from a ham Shakespearean actor (a wonderfully self-mocking Keith Baxter).
Albrecht's squire (William Lin-Yee) had the deportment of an ironing board.
Who, for instance, is going to define deportment in an Irishman?
The idea that beings who are thousands or millions of years more advanced than us would be put off by our depressing deportment makes about as much sense as saying that anthropologists should decline to study the Aztecs because of the latter's brutal rituals.
