He does a fair amount of dramatic cape swirling, but the fascination of his performance is in his face, a creepy mask of churning, unexpressed emotions leavened by brief glints of slyness.
It is not - as the title may imply - some Hollywood spy thriller set in China, but a new documentary looking at the dramatic impact of China's growing fascination with fine French wines.
In interviews, Julia Leigh has described her attraction "to the idea of a dramatic hunt for a mythical creature," a fascination sharpened by her reading of "Moby-Dick".
Is it the spectacular and dramatic nature of war that exercises such a fascination on our collective and individual imagination?
In the six rounds it lasted (to within a second, anyway), the fourth meeting between Pacquiao and Márquez here on Saturday night – for no title but with worldwide fascination – proved to be the most dramatic and the hardest to fathom.
Even if it doesn't have the dramatic traction that it should, Nohilly's messy world has psychological fascination.
In her photographs, though, they remain to an unavoidable degree objects of our fascination, their otherness accentuated by flash, stark contrast and dramatic composition.
Combining an analysis of ideology with a sharp sense of geopolitics, he brings into view Fascist Italy's involvement in Albania, then explores the country's Eastern bloc entanglements, the profound fascination with the Soviets, and the contradictions of the dramatic anti-Soviet turn.
A fascination with varied techniques haunted Degas to the end, resurfacing in dramatic and occasionally bizarre late canvases that involved finger-painting, glazes of contrasting colour, and heavily impastoed surfaces.
The high-end fascination with paste and costume jewellery, over and above more exclusive but less dramatic or versatile precious stones such as diamonds, continues apace.
