Word: craftsmanly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This does not mean that he is a good craftsman who can use his stylistic means only for character descriptions. The visual style of La Femme Infidele is a consistent unity which he has developed beyond that of his earlier films. One notes the familiar traits of his camerawork: shots that track across a situation rather than into characters; telephoto lenses used at certain points to achieve selective depth of field, so that he can pull focus from a character in the foreground to the background. Beyond their narrative function, these techniques turn the background from a spatially articulated field...