Most important, Mr. Carlin said, Mr. Freeman, abetted by the screenwriter, "impressively conveys the giant solitude of Mandela".
Raine impressively conveys the emotional insecurity of Gilda who, unlike her exotic movie namesake, is a hair-chewing wreck who seems to be wrestling with memories of her traumatised childhood.
In her City Opera debut, the mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato as Sister Helen sang impressively and conveyed both the character's inner doubts and quiet strengths.
And in Andy Serkis, the British actor best known for lending his voice and skinny frame to the computer-generated Gollum in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, they have found a performer impressively able to convey Dury's impish charm, as well as the less appealing aspects of his personality.
He received a solid response from the orchestra, with good rhythm throughout, building steam toward the climaxes, getting impressively hushed playing in the first and third movements that conveyed tragedy and desolation.
The family backstory is conveyed efficiently, at beachside, by Nancy's smart-phone screen, which is impressively superimposed on the seascape, dominating half the movie screen, as she talks with her younger sister (Sedona Legge) and her father (Brett Cullen) and looks at pictures of her mother in good and bad times.
She fights back -- given Madonna's impressively sinewy muscles, it would be foolish to bet against her -- and they fall in love, a state conveyed through a series of dreamy montages.
Sex and violence, discreetly conveyed.
It simply cannot be conveyed.
Were they effectively conveyed?
