Word: denouement
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...best comedy ever made. It is certainly Renoir's best film. Renoir's work generally involves a search for a community to identify with in French society, whether aristocracy, bourgeoisie, peasantry or working class. This quest often leads to the sentimental conclusion that such an identification is possible--a denouement that marks such otherwise great films as "Grand Illusion." But in "Rules of the Game," Renoir rejects false resolutions. Though the film seems to identify itself sporadically with the aspirations of different characters--the eccentric aristocrat, his Viennese wife, the romantic aviator, and Octave (played by Renoir himself)--the movie...
...cynical, sordid goings' on between the lawyer, his berserk business partner and the aloof, gorgeous Hayworth. Welles, despite himself, gets caught up in the carnage, dragged in by unrequited adoration for Hayworth, a nose for adventure, a soul filled with romanticism and nothing particularly better to do. The denouement of the murder mystery is as subtle and complex as the one in "The Big Sleep," and hauntingly handled. But even more memorable is what Welles does with his peerless sense of theatrical cinematography; some of his South Sea and courtroom shots are dazzling, and, of course, the final scene...
...then the final act. The denouement. The tragic flaw that worked its will to overshadow a strong pressure relief job by McOsker...
...bestselling suspense writers concocts drama of genetic manipulation, incidental assassination, government machination and Russian marination. Bagley, 54, who knows his computers and test tubes, is equally at home with his locales (England and Sweden, in this book) and his personae, who can be both touching and tough. The Bagleyan denouement raises his novel from mere artifice to the artful...
...forced to squirm off stage in a clump, giving one mutual twitter with all the naturalness of a concerted burp. There are fewer transition problems in the second act, probably because there are fewer transitions. Once the background has been rather slowly introduced in the first act, the denouement melodically takes place at zany, breakneck speed. Even so, the second act, as a whole, is much better than the first...