And yet despite the corpses and the mud, A Very Long Engagement - which once again stars Audrey Tautou - has the peculiar feel of an Amélie sequel.
While local volunteers helped with logistics, the radio hosts, technicians, interpreters, and moderators were almost all French, giving many events a peculiar feel, with African panelists questioned and mediated by white people in various capacities.
The attempt to tailor this shaggy style to fit the bony body of a genre novella has not been entirely successful; Breakfast with the Borgias, though often winningly peculiar, feels at once over-decorated with ideas and unfinished at the edges.
He evokes the peculiar smell and feel of the war better than any journalist: "The trash fires and sewage, the heavy scent of cured lamb, the river; above all this was the stink of decay from the bodies themselves".
I felt peculiar, but I feel like there's a great poetry in going to things when you're jetlagged, because sometimes it heightens the experience.
It might sound peculiar to feel sorry for a team that's 6-2 and gets to run Russell Westbrook out every night, but regardless of the fast start, this is a 40-45 win team.
It may be peculiar to feel that you've been understood by a TV show, but in the same way that Sharona gets Monk — once, when he finds out that he's been turned down for reinstatement, he says before walking away, "I just want to be alone," and Sharona says, "I'll come with you," which is exactly what he wants her to do — you feel that "Monk" gets you.
The sharp movements in stocks, bonds and currencies this week reflect the peculiar anxiety felt by investors.
Townsend regarded Meckiff's arm action as "peculiar" but felt he did not throw.
It is a peculiar misery to feel this way and to feel, at the same time, that the situation has become a weapon in the war against Israel.
The peculiar title, you feel, could have been dreamed up by either man.
