The variety of scenes offer fragments within fragments of discourse, with ingenious, impulsive dialogue spliced with things overheard and remembered, shooting off into unexpected directions like fireworks.
With a repertory of ingenious sight and sound gags (and scant dialogue), Tati turns a small and grubby beachfront hotel into a sour microcosm of French society, with its fusty social codes and self-important bombast.
The hotel's period décor is lovingly recreated, the dialogue is intelligent, the puzzles are ingenious, and while even many professional games are marred by amateurish acting, Mr. Boakes has coaxed first-rate performances from the friends he recruited.
But it wasn't just in the daily media where the Republican Party proved ingenious in outsourcing its rhetoric and shifting the national dialogue.
But it wasn't just in the media where the Republican party proved ingenious in outsourcing its rhetoric and shifting the national dialogue.
His conceit is ingenious: he takes the hardboiled characters, murky plotting and wisecracking dialogue of old Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler novels and grafts them on to a tale about Californian teens.
There have been ingenious moments of subverted narrative expectation, followed rapidly by inexcusably honking dialogue.
From the start, The Long Good Friday moves at a great clip, the dialogue crackling with sinuous lines and cockney wit as it draws together the strands of its ingenious plot.
