Toward the end of the aria, the "throbbing" figure comes back in the minor mode, and it is reinforced by winds in unison.
The final, far from traditional hymn of praise, with seemingly endless repetitions of "laudate" to the quiet urging of a constant, six-note throbbing figure in timpani and two pianos, was tenderly achieved by players, singers and the conductor Ryan Wigglesworth.
He stabs the soundtrack amusingly with Italian-horror synth: throbbing chords for the scary stuff and tinkly xylophone figures for the little-girl corruptible innocence moments.
"Instead of delivering buckets of guts and gore, this ghost story offers a strong sense of time and place, along with the kind of niceties that don't often figure into horror flicks, notably pictorial beauty, an atmosphere throbbing with dread and actors so good that you don't want anyone to take an ax to them," Manohla Dargis wrote in The New York Times.
(Holden) 'Mama' (PG-13, 1 49) This ghost story starring Jessica Chastain offers a strong sense of time and place, along with the kind of niceties that don't often figure into horror flicks, notably pictorial beauty, an atmosphere throbbing with dread and actors so good that you don't want anyone to take an ax to them.
Instead of delivering buckets of guts and gore, this ghost story offers a strong sense of time and place, along with the kind of niceties that don't often figure into horror flicks, notably pictorial beauty, an atmosphere throbbing with dread and actors so good that you don't want anyone to take an ax to them.
(Stephen Holden) 'Mama' (PG-13, 1 49) This ghost story starring Jessica Chastain offers a strong sense of time and place, along with the kind of niceties that don't often figure into horror flicks, notably pictorial beauty, an atmosphere throbbing with dread and actors so good that you don't want anyone to take an ax to them.
Because involvement with our personal desires and concerns prevents us from paying close attention to anyone else, those around us -- even family and friends -- can become unreal, two-dimensional cardboard figures, not humans with wants and fears and throbbing hearts.
By the early 80s, Haring's drawings and paintings were full of twitching, cartoon figures, dogs and TV sets, whizzing flying saucers and throbbing phalluses in Day-Glo colours - the favoured palette of punk and new-wave graphics.
My artworks were on their own, standing among things already throbbing with historical, religious and social significance, a Russian icon, a mud and blood power figure from Mali, a badge from the 1961 Aldermaston march.
Even in the more restless songs, like "Stehe Still," with its bolts of rising figures in the violins, her singing was gently urgent and understated, with throbbing vibrato in sustained high notes.
