(The odds heavily favor Dinny, needless to say.) Those performances enact the tale of why Dinny and his sons have been living in exile, in agoraphobic reclusion, from their native Cork for many years.
The film, directed by Mitra Farahani, is a very personal, insightful, intimate look at the exiled Iranian artist's last few months, living in self-imposed reclusion in a small residence hotel in Rome.
He is retired and living in semi-reclusion in a Vatican convent, and doesn't seem eager to stir the pot.
He was a person in ongoing distress of all varieties, in virtual reclusion since 2005.
And the organizers of the exhibition — Peter Sturman, a professor of art history at the University of California, Santa Barbara; Susan Tai, curator of Asian Art at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, where the show originated; and Adriana Proser of Asia Society, who oversaw it in New York — advise a measure of skepticism in approaching reclusion as an institution.
Michael Jackson became a thing of the past, and in his reclusion he became something else entirely: wacko Jacko.
Barring straightforward complicity, there appear to be three choices: withdraw into reclusion, stand up in overt resistance, or negotiate a reorientation by means of immanent critique or cooperative correction.
What prompted his descent from being that darling of writers' conventions to increasing reclusion in his third-floor apartment?
