The band has a significant role in the supple staging of the director, Walter Bobbie, on suitably flexible, simple sets by Eugene Lee.
Assayas is a supple, playful and confident director whose eclectic body of work has embraced mercurial satire (Irma Vep), period drama (Sentimental Destinies) and terrorist thrills (Carlos).
The contrast between these filmmakers and -- to cite just one golden age of American movie making -- the supple, emotionally complex narrative style of directors like John Ford, Howard Hawks and Billy Wilder is a bleak one.
Andrew Davis, the music director of the Lyric Opera, conducted a supple and luminous account.
Now nudging into his dotage, the director belied his age with a supple, langorous and oddly poignant tale of youthful follies.
The estimable Encores! orchestra, under the musical director Rob Berman, has never sounded more supple, flexible and musically engaged, while the cast, under the direction of Marc Bruni, is uniformly strong.
It's the score that takes over here, and Constantine Kitsopoulos, the show's musical director and principal conductor, makes the supple, sensitive orchestra sound like an extension of thought.
THE 24 directors who oversee the International Monetary Fund need supple minds.
Clark is undoubtedly best known for her Tony-winning appearance in the brilliant Adam Lightel-Crain Lucas Lighthen the Piazza, but she's also a director and vocal coach and just happens to combine a supple soprano with girl-next-door likability.
(Lumumba's fate is here anticipated by a cunningly envisaged, and highly physical, Last Supper of sorts in which the co-director, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, himself a noted choreographer, displays his supple hand).
In Kinema Junpo, Tokitoshi Shioda called Departures a turning point in Takita's career, a human drama capturing both laughter and tears, while in the same publication Masaaki Nomura described the film as a work of supple depth that perhaps indicated a move into Takita's mature period, praising the director for capturing a human feeling from Motoki's earnest encoffining performance.
