Mr. Perelman, Mr. Dubus and Mr. Kingsley join in an irritating commentary that not only heavily overlauds every move and touch in the film but also makes the mistake of explaining and analyzing every little reaction and emotion, thereby stripping the movie of the mystery and restraint that distinguished much of it on screen.
"The American," filtering out any mention of the character's history and suppressing all but the tiniest indications of emotion, tries to strip the man to his essence.
The film, "filtering out any mention of the character's history and suppressing all but the tiniest indications of emotion, tries to strip the man to his essence," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times.
Exhausted by embattled emotion, the dancers strip off and on a floor slick with water, and under a glowing light, begin sliding and swooshing across the stage in serene, graceful ecstasy.
The film, directed by Anton Corbijn from a script by Rowan Joffe, by "filtering out any mention of the character's history and suppressing all but the tiniest indications of emotion, tries to strip the man to his essence," A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times.
The film, directed by Anton Corbijn from a script by Rowan Joffe, by "filtering out any mention of the character's history and suppressing all but the tiniest indications of emotion, tries to strip the man to his essence," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times.
It's as if Nathalie's prodigious learning has taken the place of her own emotions, her own experience, and, stripping her of her books, Hansen-Løve proceeds to inflict pain and suffering on Nathalie in an effort to see what remains of her essential self.
They are just as reliant on anonymous narration that skips inconvenient details, music that summons emotions and images stripped of context -- all of this carefully arranged to tell the producer's chosen story.
When personal growth is reduced to expressing emotions, life is stripped of its ability to teach.
During her nomination campaign, CNN's Glenn Beck noted: "After spending decades stripping away all trace of emotion, femininity, and humanity, Hillary Clinton broke down and actually cried".
