It's realism with a smile, serving up its well-costumed batch of characters in a well-styled period reconstruction with great satisfaction at a day's work well done, but with no apparent sense whatsoever that the story suggests any actual historical or moral stakes.
Our movies were badly styled — especially the period of the late '70s and '80s," he said.
The franchise began with a handful of dolls (the names Samantha, Addie, Kirsten, Molly may ring a bell with fellow-millennials) styled after different periods of American history.
Bedroom three, styled with the minimalist, period restraint you might expect to find in a Grade II-listed Georgian townhouse, was by far my favourite.
Each piece is different, even styled with different time periods or problems that have caught my attention in mind.
This self-styled "naughty period" of Harrison's coincided with the failure of his marriage to Boyd and a fall from grace with music critics following his 1974 "Dark Horse Tour" – a tour on which, similar to Dylan in 1969, Harrison defied public expectation and attempted to break from his Beatle past.
We wanted them to be zaftig, and we styled them to look like women of the period.
The July issue Vogue tried to tap into the mood of the hour with "Magnificent Obsession," a fashion feature styled as a 1950s Technicolor melodrama, one replete with period-like headbands, swing skirts and skinny men's ties.
His surfers are from the period when the sport's most successful practitioners styled themselves athletes rather than far-out dudes itching to get radical.
With Paul O'Dette and Stephen Stubbs as musical directors and Drew Minter as stage director, this historically informed production offers a strong cast, a top-notch period instrument ensemble of 29 players and elaborate Baroque styled sets, costumes and dancing.
Yet both because of the distance of its period setting and the deeply felt emotions of its classically styled storytelling and performances, the movie avoids ever feeling like a pamphlet polemic.
