They partner well with the gentle, playful tone of the narrative, which is almost entirely dialogue.
It falls down too when it comes to the narrative which is all over the place.
Perhaps it is what's missing from the narrative which leaves the biggest impression.
Endlessly, infuriatingly, she takes charge of the narrative which is supposed to be used to denigrate her.
Their interrupted courtship bookends the narrative, which is set, Ms. Svich's script informs us, in the "present, past and future".
The narrative, which is split between the third person and Esther, concerns moral disposition as much as social criticism.
Connolly's love of period detail can have a dragging effect on the narrative, which becomes painfully slow at times.
The narrative, which can sometimes seem confusing, is admirably clear, and the erotic complexities are nicely teased out.
The narrative, which unspools through flashbacks, discursions and Perón's chronic public self-mythologizing, straddles the terrain where memory, history and legend collide.
For Ahmed Shafik and Mohamed Morsi represent the two faces of the narrative which Mubarak always used to maintain his power: stability or the Islamist nightmare.
In the film, the development of the attack, not of the characters, guides the narrative, which is limited to the day it took place.
