Cinematically, "Outfoxed" is a straightforward film, consisting mostly of clips and talking heads.
Take away the 3-D, and this is a straightforward filming of Ms. Zambello's straightforward staging of Bizet's opera.
I mean those of us who have been parents, children or both, but also, more specifically, the audience watching this deceptively straightforward film.
That lush, more straightforward film is set in Cameroon in the 1950s, during the waning years of French colonial rule, a subject Ms. Denis, the daughter of a French official, knows intimately, having grown up in Francophone African countries.
The interesting thing is, after setting up the premise in the first tiny exchange of the trailer, it doesn't pretend to be anything other than the most beige, straightforward film you can imagine coming out of that premise.
How this intelligent, straightforward film ended up on the network of "Megan Wants a Millionaire" and "Daisy of Love" is a mystery, but we should just be grateful to VH1 for broadcasting it.
Still Alice is perhaps a relatively straightforward film on this subject, compared with, say, Sarah Polley's Away From Her (2006) in which Julie Christie's Alzheimer patient forms a relationship with another man in a care home, or Richard Eyre's Iris (2001) in which Iris Murdoch, played by Judi Dench, descends into dementia in a kind of flashback parallel with the story of her younger self.
Win It All is definitely the director's most linear, straightforward film to date.
"As much as the ancillary madness that surrounds the events is insane, we are a straightforward film screening series with affordable ticket prices," comments the Society's gatekeeper.
Mann's baroque visual style added a noir atmosphere to otherwise fairly straightforward crime films, with their emphasis on investigative procedure.
