The strain of rich and anguished feeling in this movie, enhanced by Philip Miller's music and Mr. Young's color-saturated, luminous images, is downright exhilarating, and Mr. Dosunmu manages it with a graceful, nimble touch.
Do not expect tears to fill your eyes with the usual anguished feeling during Shylock's most famous speech, the quiet argument for Jewish humanity in which he asks, "If you prick us, do we not bleed?" and other rhetorical questions.
Birney's performance reminds one of Inge's breadth as a writer, whose works include a novel involving interracial sex and a number of plays that deal with his anguished feelings about his homosexuality.
Anguished feelings of profound unfairness also remain as the dream of togetherness and the future it held slips away.
On the recording this young singer displays a robust voice but limited feeling for Rigoletto's anguished fury as he confronts the courtiers at the Duke of Mantua's palace.
Coming from a people dispossessed of much of their land through a century of wars with European settlers, Abbie's dependence on her brute of a husband, and her willingness to sacrifice her child in order (she thinks) to keep the love of Eben, resounds with anguished new feeling.
A profound, sometimes anguished fellow-feeling for the victims of arbitrary power ran, like a golden thread, through Burke's 30 years in parliament.
Brandon's every orgasm feels like an anguished death spasm.
Look at all those anguished heroines in Woolf, Waugh, Greene.
The films are designed to inspire the feeling that next to the wracked and anguished souls on screen, we in the audience would do well to realise just how lucky we are.
