The scene involves Hall, Caruso, and the masking-tape rocket ship.
In one scene Ms. Hall mimics the motion of Ms. Dignan's sprightly jumps by moving the slide projection up and down, evoking a scrolling computer screen.
And in providing the country's 60-year-old symphony orchestra with its first ever purpose-built home, it encapsulates the recent re-energising of Iceland's cultural scene.The hall is touted as a work of art in itself: the "largest glass sculpture in the world", says Olafur Eliasson, the Icelandic-Danish artist who designed its outer shell.
Whatever the case, it's dispiriting that the draggiest, soppiest scenes in "Hall Pass," as well as the most disgusting gag, involve women.
But a perch on top of the scaffold also offers a better view of the Vasari scenes across the hall on the west wall, scenes that echo the "Fight for the Standard" in a way that suggests to Seracini that maybe Vasari was staring across the cavernous room at the Leonardo while he painted.
The village hall scene is wonderful.
"It was totally quiet, and some people gasped," he said, recalling the scene inside the hall.
"Cooking lobsters reminded me of a scene in 'Annie Hall,' but it was more horrible and much less romantic.
Westminster Hall, scene of today's royal tributes, was built a few years later.
The concert hall scene on which he was to make his mark was steeped in a far less flexible tradition.
