For most of the album she lets her big, smoky voice rip into songs of all-out romantic strife.
She applies the same spirit on-stage, bouncing and bending, trying to rev up and let her appealingly unhistrionic voice rip.
All the way through, there are quotes from the movie that come flying out of the screen to try and subliminally attract us: "The wait is over," says a voice, undoubtedly ripped from somewhere in the film where it refers to something incongruous, like someone walking in with a nice hot cup of tea.
Tom Waits has a voice that rips into the soul.
On stage, unlike her grandfather and aunt, famed for their tub-thumping speeches, Maréchal-Le Pen takes the mic off its stand and walks around like a friendly compere, talking in a soft voice and ripping apart her opponents with barbed jokes.
Like my voice was being ripped away from me.
But, had the BBC not suspended him, those same voices would have ripped it apart for pushing allegations of physical assault under the carpet, proving it has learned nothing from the past, etc.
In one case, in 1974, Ron Rosenbaum at The Village Voice approached his new boss, ripped up a paycheck, declared that no amount of money could keep him at the paper — and stormed off.
But his most memorable screen moment is in an almost mute scene in Distant Voices, when he rips the tablecloth away from an uneaten Christmas dinner.
"We get new thieves regularly; Shaleesh and Maher and Rami, they ripped off my brothers and uncles," the boy's voice went on.
