Somewhere between American mumblecore and European arthouse cinema lie the seeds of writer/director Alex Barrett's micro-budget debut feature, an "anti-dramatic" drama in which nothing much happens – and that's not a criticism.
But there's a difference between dramatic and drama, as there is between sentiment and sentimentality.
Ending some of its reticence on the topic of AIDS, China today aired a dramatic TV drama on the disease.
This is bold, dramatic television drama in its own right: a show that stands apart from its source material and can be appreciated as a tale increasingly well told.
It is the crucial, therefore, that one of the climaxes of the books, Javert's suicide, is, in a way, as much verbal as dramatic — the drama is driven from inside by the poetry, the language, and is preceded and climaxed by a flurry of Hugo's antithesis.
Some surgeons prefer to reduce the forehead only by burring it, but Deschamps-Braly, like Ousterhout before him, is committed to procedures that yield more dramatic results — drama, in the context of facial feminization, being measured in millimetres, or in fractions thereof.
It must have been more difficult to find the right shape for Nora Webster, whose material is more linear and less dramatic; the drama of Maurice's death is over before anything begins, and only comes to us through Nora's haunted remembering.
If you're creative and dramatic, consider drama and audition for school plays.
Write an episode of Casualty or some other dramatic medical drama and turn it into a joke.
I'd have it at my funeral - it's the most dramatic, annoying, drama-laden song to leave people with.
