"One day you can't afford to get Chinese-food takeout, and suddenly you're getting free meals at Balthazar," said Ms. Rubin-Vega, who added that the public obsession with the show, and the story behind it, seemed disquietingly macabre at the time.
And I'd reach the end of the day and be too tired to continue, and instead of thinking, 'Brilliant, I can stop now,' I would think, 'I wish I could carry on.'" One thing becomes abundantly clear: the story is sexually lurid, bloody and, at times, macabre.
Tom Dawson of BBCi Films wrote, "A single viewing can barely do justice to this richly detailed and often playfully macabre adventure". The Times' Kenneth Turan said: " 'The Triplets of Belleville' was the real surprise of the Cannes festival.
The Great Night by Chris Adrian Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream was the jumping-off point for this quirky, meandering, at times macabre fairy tale of magic, love, and human yearning that opens in San Francisco's Buena Vista Park in 2008.
This is not the first time the macabre and the idea of mortality has featured in your work.
By the time the macabre discovery was made, the men were barely recognisable, although they were still dressed in their balaclavas and combat gear.
Owen Sheers's novel I Saw a Man, in which the hero has been robbed of his wife by a drone strike, was praised as "immensely pleasurable" despite being "chilly, macabre" in the Sunday Times by Claire Lowdon, who cited in particular "the confidence of the authorial voice" and the "exhilarating" plotting.
The siege of Caffa, for all of its dramatic appeal, probably had no more than anecdotal importance in the spread of plague, a macabre incident in terrifying times.
Stung by Grazia's beauty and charm, he is inspired to shirk his macabre duty for the first time in several millenniums.
