As a filmmaker Mr. Belvaux shares some of Bruno's grim, misguided conviction.
Though presumed to be innocent before conviction, these grim or grinning individuals are publicly shamed.
Sayles wrote this spasmodic gibberish, and Chris Cooper renders it with inspired timing and negative panache — a mixture of grim panic and sudden conviction.
But it's hard when Rokon is plagued by a buzzing in his ears, occurring at the worst times, as when one of the instructors delivers a grim sermon on the conviction needed for Islam.
Portraying Bernadette, a Romanian orphan of mongrel origins, in this stark, poetic production from Theater Y of Chicago, Ms. Hawkins plies her character's grim magic with such angry conviction that you may well pinch your arm to make sure it's still made of flesh.
A parallel myth is that her combined style and conviction drove the grim-faced leaders of Northern Ireland's political parties into signing the Belfast agreement.
For her part, Hindley's conviction at Chester in 1966 was simply the grim climax to a blighted life.
It carries a particularly grim resonance in the wake of Chelsea Manning's military trial and conviction.
