The pairing with Mr. Raad, who was born in Lebanon and often takes that country's fraught modern past as his subject, makes perfect sense in this context.
Its style was at once intimate and theatrical, entirely of the cosmopolitan modernist moment but deeply invested in a fraught individual past, as the title of one turbulent late painting, "How My Mother's Embroidered Apron Unfolds in My Life" (1944), suggests.
To most moviegoers, it must seem as archaic and parochial as a Victorian novel, and there is little doubt that "The Constant Gardener" will be an easier sell in Europe, fettered to Africa by a fraught colonial past, than it will here.
His fascination seems a little hard to understand if you consider Bayern's fraught British past.
The relationship between Ailes, who now steers the most powerful conservative television news empire in the country, and McCarthy, who is one of three directors of Restore Our Future, has been fraught in the past.
Relations between Paris and Tehran had been fraught in the past but Mr Rouhani chose France, along with Italy, as his destinations for the planned first visit by an Iranian president to the European Union in a decade.
But the Cherokee's fraught, death-defying past suggests that the vehicle often takes the harder path.
Because of dance's ephemeral nature, it has a fraught relationship with the past.
But linking the behavior of humans to their evolutionary past was fraught with perils, not least because of the difficulty of disentangling culture and biology.
The scheme is also about such romantic and nebulous things as community, heritage, the fraught relationship between the past and the future.
