In this populist-feeling dramatic art, strange is beautiful, freakish is normal.
A few carefully chosen gestures can be packed with feeling and dramatic content.
They are accomplished artists, very well trained, with a feeling for dramatic imagery.
Silences between clipped orchestral chords were sometimes like dead spaces, as if the players were dutifully waiting for Mr. Maazel's cue, rather than feeling the dramatic tension that continues during the silence.
But Mr. Daldry finds honest feeling and dramatic integrity in shopworn material, and the cast, notably Mr. Lewis as Billy's father, Ms. Walters as his teacher and young Jamie Bell as Billy himself, helps rescue the movie from its most hackneyed impulses (Scott).
But Mr. Daldry finds honest feeling and dramatic integrity in shopworn material, and the cast, notably Mr. Lewis as Billy's father, Ms. Walters as his teacher and young Jamie Bell as Billy, helps rescue the movie from its most hackneyed impulses (Scott).
Too often his lighting, always harsh, is pushed to the point of theatricality, and too often, as in the almost meaningless "Exit in Color" and the excessively streamlined baseball study called "Out at Home," he lets his feeling for dramatic simplification carry him to sheer posterishness.
But Mr. Daldry finds honest feeling and dramatic integrity in shopworn material, and the cast, notably Mr. Lewis as Billy's father, Ms. Walters as his teacher and young Jamie Bell as Billy himself, help rescue the movie from its most hackneyed impulses (Scott).
