Profoundly mysterious, erotic, funny, gentle, playful, utterly distinctive, it is the work of the Thai director and installation-artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who now has a claim to be approaching the league of Kiarostami and Haneke, one of modern cinema's great practitioners.
Synopses were apt to say that it was about a woman who was a free spirit, spontaneous, playful and utterly bewitching, who loved two men.
Taken together, the concert films show the full panorama of Pryor's moods: brilliant, boring, insecure, demanding, misogynist, racist, playful, and utterly empathetic.
It is simultaneously utterly serious and entirely playful; physical jokes abound in Mr. Ratmansky's endlessly inventive dances, with ballet steps turned on their head (sometimes literally) and pushed off balance.
While his novel has the vast sweep of pure tragedy, it is also at times playful, and utterly engrossing; it is filled with original and unexpected detail about domestic life, about the shapes and shadows that surround love and memory, and about the sharp and desperate edges of loss and fear.
This lucky fellow, clearly delighting in his soaring stunt, is not the only performer to go airborne in this playful but utterly inane new adaptation of Georg Büchner's landmark drama "Woyzeck," created by the Vesturport Theater of Iceland in collaboration with the Reykjavik City Theater.
Luiselli's second novel -- her first, Faces in the Crowd, published in English last year, won a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" Award -- is hotly anticipated and promises to be playful, sharp, profound and utterly unusual.
Playful and clever, it's utterly compelling.
But when I did see him, his behavior with me -- playful, sometimes cruel, a voice of utterly inconsistent and capricious authority -- confirmed my uneasiness, my ever-growing sense of being an imposter, outside life's laws".
What especially appealed to me - and still does - was this poet's wonderfully playful delight in poetic form, and the fact that his poems are, at the same time, utterly serious.
