Mr. Makine's version of this scene is made both grotesque and incredibly moving by the ways history itself had become grotesque since the days of Tolstoy.
When an American version of this scene sprouted, it was built on the traditions fostered mainly by English and Dutch musicians, with whom young American lutenists, harpsichordists and string players had studied.
In one version of this scene, happy music is playing, perhaps to suggest a romantic comedy.
In the movie version of this scene, Lévay might be overcome with emotion as he feels sensations from his fingertips for the first time in six years.
In the earliest definitely identified version of this scene, (a Corinthian vase c.580BC), Troilus is bearded and Priam is also present.
Instead of Don taking Megan to task for deciding on her own to ring in his 40th birthday so publicly, the '80s version of this scene would have played out far differently.
On the night of the annual Met Gala, it can feel as though gravity itself changes course to pull every celebrity toward Fifth Avenue, and in hotels around the city, versions of this same scene were playing out.
A Leica viewfinder shows two versions of the scene before you.
Two versions of the scene were then re-filmed without Alexandre, with Maslany playing each of the characters.
As the deities appear only in pictorial versions of the scene, their role is subject to interpretation.
