Wrong country, surely, but then the movie's grip on Italy feels tenuous at best.
Even after more than a decade, life for the refugees still feels tenuous.
This section feels looser and more meandering than the first; when you are watching it, the links between them feel tenuous.
As in a lot of Hollywood movies set in the world of letters, the connection to the real world of authors and publishers feels tenuous.
Yet a place at the top of the mountain often feels tenuous in a sport that does not always reward talent or even the better team.
Then last year, after Otto, then 3, was put on the waiting list for P. S. 276's pre-K program, their plan began to feel tenuous.
Bergman achieves some marvellous effects with burnished color, but his connection to these men and women feels tenuous and strained, and too often ends in a painful, frustrating standoff.
This debut filmmaker doesn't do enough to build sympathy for JR, and when his story eventually loops back to the character's supposed chessboard genius, the connection feels tenuous at best.
Yet the movie's grasp of experience feels tenuous, trippy, and, dare one say, adolescent; if you gave an extremely bright fifteen-year-old a bag of unfamiliar herbs to smoke, and forty million dollars or so to play with, "Mother!" would be the result.
The outcome often feels tenuous.
