The March sisters live in what we might call genteel poverty, with the Civil War as a vague, distant backdrop.
Mr. Barratier takes this fraught and interesting moment of strikes, factory occupations, rising fascism and mass unemployment and turns it into the vague and gauzy backdrop for a nostalgic and improbable tale of music-hall shenanigans.
We cut to Robinson, wearing a dark suit, in front of a fat microphone, against a vaguely official-looking backdrop.
Like Christopher Nolan's "Batman Begins," Mr. Singer's effort reworks the legend against a vaguely modern, timeless backdrop that blends the thematically old with the technologically new.
Given the revenge-porn backdrop, it makes vague thematic sense that the women should so recall sisters in looks as in arms, but replacing the amenable Haasan with the brooding, muscular Devgn has a peculiar effect.
Their island destination is a scenic backdrop, misty and vaguely Mediterranean.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's portraits show black women and men set in vague surroundings or against a dark backdrop.
Behind it, the backdrop shows a vast, vague mountainscape against the sky depicted in gloriously colored, modulating daylight.
Twenty years on, and given the ugly backdrop to this game, anything vaguely resembling entertainment would have been welcome.
