In these passages, the film seems to have no subject other than her pretty and oddly peaceful-looking features.
They've overhauled the body pretty significantly (oddly, making it look vaguely like a BlackBerry Storm), but the guts are all there.
What she does manages to be at once tacky and beguiling, oddly pretty and pretty horrible; this is to do with the physical properties of her everyday materials and their associations – to the cosmetic and to all that faecal paint the abstract expressionists once flung about.
The shrimp bruschetta, which looked pretty but was oddly placed in a pool of tomato salsa, which soaked the bread, was unsuccessful.
And Ms. Lang's oddly pretty new "Icarus," performed to music by Sofia Gubaidulina, is diluted by its use of four suns.
Streep is pretty gamey (and oddly amusing) as the Marple-like nun and Hoffman is, as always, convincing, as the underfire priest in John Patrick Stanley's impeccably detailed, never less than compelling and very theatrical drama.
It is the absolute control she has over her face – the eyes, the narrow-wide mouth – that is the key to her comedy; on television it can contort into a manic weirdness, but in person she's oddly pretty, in the best way.
His collection of marabou-trimmed pale satin evening dresses, stiff white organza blouses and glossy pink sash bows were unimpeachably pretty but looked oddly like the wardrobe of a pampered Park Avenue seven-year-old who has grown six foot tall and borrowed mummy's pearl earrings.
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Here the movie changes from a semi-serious anatomy of the class divide into a pretty broad Cluedo romp and, oddly, the murder victim's violent end does not cause any obvious grief or soul-searching in the breast of the one person who is supposed secretly to love the deceased.
