McQueen, screenwriter Enda Walsh and cinematographer Sean Bobbitt create a series of hard, spare scenes in which horrifyingly brutal action takes place: the compositions show how violence and hate and fear were inscribed into the very brickwork.
But the thing that will stay with you long after the film is over are the spare scenes with the women in their lives ― the ones who take their late-night calls, their abuses and their endless, tormented need.
The seventh episode explores with haunting tenderness the desire to care and be cared for, first in a difficult, funny conversation between the characters played by Gedrick and Dunn (both of whom are simply terrific in "Luck") and then through a series of spare scenes tinged with the melancholia of Edward Hopper's paintings.
Change it he did, producing spare, enigmatic scenes that looked more like artworks than cheap souvenirs.
Brief and spare, these scenes ground the movie's high-flying social satire in a bedrock of universal pain.
At the end of his life, as he was writing the spare, beautiful scenes in "The Last Tycoon," he seems to have succeeded.
In the life-sized "Crucifixion" (Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona), the spare and sombre scene strictly conforms to the Florentine Renaissance style of Masaccio and repudiates the rich colouring and courtly grace of Bellini's earlier known works.
In the late 70s and early 80s, when punk had exploded on to the music scene, Spare Rib wrote about women-only bands, as in this piece on the Bodysnatchers.
Then, in a series of spare, well-written scenes, Bock imposes various neurological catastrophes on Emily.
