The audience's compassion and identification, even with the couple's treachery, have as much to do with the sparseness of Mr. O'Brien's directorial scheme as with the instinctive performances of Kurt Rhoads and Nance Williamson.
He's more an instinctive psychosexual performance poet and, arguably, one of the finest sociopolitical commentators America ever had.
Whether as a highly produced studio effect or an instinctive moment in performance, the powerful pause plays with our hearing brain, just as stop-start animation plays with the optic nerve.
Bernhard's dissent is instinctive, but unsophisticated; her performance comes alive when she is talking celebrities, not society.
These are very simple people, yet in Vigo's gaze they are subject to the complexity of the human imagination and the mystery of film poetry - it comes in the look of water, the woodwinds in Maurice Jaubert's score (arguably the first instance of outstanding music being employed in a film) and in the instinctive truth of the performances.
The best moment of his performance was an instinctive dart in front of Mesut Özil to head clear, after the German looked set to head home a Jerome Boateng outswinger, though it had to contend with a handful of other vital interceptions.
But the other evening at the Barbican Concert Hall in the City of London, I had a chance to review my instinctive feelings, during an extraordinary performance by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra from Amsterdam.
Thus, the jinghu player must have an instinctive ability to change his or her performance without warning to properly accompany the performer.
Likewise, in live performance and rehearsal he had an instinctive grasp of when to push and when to stop.
Her affectionate Lily, the instinctive lady and the inevitable schoolteacher, is a lovely performance brought to a fine glow".
