It's amusing to notice how the sweet-tempered Miró can't help but invest the grotesquerie with the lyrical bounce of his seductive line.
The film evokes a bygone era in which screen heroes were seemingly always dressed in tuxedos and able to produce a clever witticism or seductive line for every occasion.
They note that the commission is not merely far away from most national capitals but unelected (although the last thing a Eurosceptic wants is an elected commission), and yet perhaps 80% of the laws passed at national level originate in Brussels.This is a seductive line of reasoning, but it is flawed.
She became a wordsmith in the art of the come-on and the seductive line, and despite her obvious appeal to male audiences, was popular with women as well.
Joel Ansett's debut "The Nature of Us" walks a seductive line between soul and folk particularly on the opening track, "Kingdom Come," which uses a hip-hop phrasing sensibility to great effect.
Beyond even such seductive plot lines, however, lies a bigger story.
Eric Fennell, dressed in velvet, sings Dorian's seductive vocal lines with a honeyed tenor voice, and Katarina Jahasova-Sturova brings an iridescent soprano to Sibyl Vane, the actress who kills herself after Dorian reneges on his proposal to marry her.
A quick demonstration of what he meant produced immediate and startling results as Mr Savall replaced his students' dull, muted sound with gracefully seductive singing lines.Unlike the moody and reclusive Sainte Colombe of the film, Mr Savall is a patient guide.
Painting and sculpture are particularly relevant to the high modernist style Weston mastered from 1927 to 1937: images of luminous shells shining like icons against the dark; looming peppers with rounded shoulders and seductive hip lines; nudes reduced to near abstractions; and sand dunes as severely yet opulently rhythmic as anything by Bach.
With their seductive curved lines, Medusian snakes and cyber-baroque stylings, they look like outfits from a place and time the world has yet to catch up with.
