Scene Two: A windowless, featureless upstairs office Littner experiences deja vu.
The report warned that the region might deteriorate into a scene from "Blade Runner": a featureless sprawl seething with class and ethnic hostilities.
or the homunculus A gentle alchemist behind them trains To put in order these nocturnal scenes - Two heads already featureless in gloom Have fallen back to sleep.
The format of this painfully dull show is identical to the other outposts of the Kardashian empire: interminable scenes of people driving luxury cars on featureless freeways, sitting around kitchens not eating cheese plates, or folding clothes for a business trip that may or may not ever happen.
"Uncle Boonmee" shifts to the city, and there Weerasethakul gives us prolonged, listless scenes in a garish temple and then in a featureless, fluorescent-lit bedroom.
The couple's lives together are shown in dialogue scenes interleaved with silent panoramic shots of the vast and slightly featureless East Anglian landscape; these do not cleanse the palate exactly, but add to the growing unease.
This sad, claustrophobic urban scene by Edward Hopper, with its flat, rearing tenement blocks, its long, blank-faced, featureless wall (which occupies about 30 per cent of the painting), and its eerily dark and beckoning tunnel entrance, looks like a problem without an answer.
And if the scenes of embarrassment lost some of their punch when Wenders moved them to places like the Wuppertal monorail, still it was good just to see those scenes again, and even to look at the monorail, or at least the featureless, industrial city, Wuppertal, that it travelled over.
Taking a break between filming scenes in the flat, which is constructed inside a suitably cheerless warehouse on a featureless industrial estate slap-bang underneath the Heathrow flight path – all very Peep Show – the two stars exhibit an ease and a pleasure in each other's company that could only come from 22 years of close friendship (they each acted as best man at the other's wedding).
