It sounds like a portentous literary conceit (and, indeed, Jacquot made heavy weather of a similar story in his prior film, "The Untouchable"), but here, seemingly inspired (or kept on his best behavior) by the actress and her quiet, drum-tight intensity, he sketches, lightly and briskly, yet revealingly, a memorable portrait of the inner depths of outer blankness.
Yet the tight-jawed intensity that was his calling-card in Casino Royale has morphed here into a one-note machismo, and a very humourless note it is.
The talk was empowerment, shared destiny, pulling together: the walk was increasing work intensity, tight performance management, risk offloaded on to the individual.
"I think the tight quarters and the intensity, particularly in the second half, are a huge dramatic asset," he said, citing his experience making the even more claustrophobic "Apollo 13".
Sometimes the band sounds like an Art Blakey group with a trumpeter of cool poise and insatiable confidence, gliding over the rest like Wynton Marsalis - as occurs on the bright, riffy swinger of the title track, where the dynamic contrasts between group intensity and tight, minimal drums, swinging under shapely breaks from Blanchard and Tyner, make you whoop.
He certainly conducted with passionate commitment, yet kept a tight rein on the febrile intensity so that the effect of the very last chords was all the more explosive.
Mott's story has a predictable ending but he does better than many before him in describing the nuances of the game and captures well the intensity of a tight matchplay competition.
Panjabi takes a genre cliche -- the combination of hard shell and tender interior -- and redeems it by maintaining a constant but perfectly poised intensity, one whose tight control only emphasizes its operatic force.
Based on the vector diffraction theory, the effect of phase modulation on the intensity distribution on tight focusing of cylindrically polarized Laguerre Gaussian beam in the focal region of high NA lens is investigated theoretically.
There was no difference between the basal barrier function of the BBB models from wild type and ApoB-100 transgenic mice, in concordance with the similarity of morphology and immunostaining intensity of transmembrane tight junctional proteins in brain endothelial cells from both groups.
Something about an alien environment makes you huddle a little closer, hold the corner of your father's coat a little tighter, ask questions with more intensity.
