Schlöndorff brilliantly renders Günter Grass's grotesque depiction of the Third Reich from the point of view of a perfectly mad child who has willfully (and literally and allegorically) stopped growing.
Bourgeois only named these pieces Cells from 1991 onwards, which explains the inclusion of earlier work that seemed to inspire or influence the series, such as the famous The Destruction of the Father (1974), a grotesque rendering of her father's body being torn apart and devoured in Peter Greenaway fashion.
Which is not to say that Packer feels comfortable among hunters, whose capitalist necessity renders them no less grotesque, in his view.
Ted Cruz is not alone in identifying Trump's very obvious self-absorption, the quality so grotesque it rendered him almost a stealth candidate until too late.
(And then there's the brand-new "Dead Marilyn," from a photograph of Marilyn Monroe's mottled, puffy face in death — a grotesque vision rendered with disconcertingly lovely touches of pink and blue).
For many New Yorkers, the attack on the World Trade Center, which instantly rendered the city as grotesque as a fantasy from a J. G. Ballard novel, disrupted another fantasy profoundly and probably for good.
In the resulting catastrophic reëntry to Earth, the three men and Sue undergo a molecular transformation that endows them with new traits and powers, new forms and identities that, in comic-book terms, qualify them as superheroes but that, in teen-age terms, render them gross and grotesque.
His use of pink effectively gelds the grotesque imagery and renders it impotent.
No technology can render that process any less grotesque.
At 82, he is dazzlingly confident in his command of the artifice and exaggerations required to render this singular work's grotesque comedy and steady undercurrent of pain.
