Word: minimalist
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...illusion is broken only when the subjects open their mouths; their dialogue is, to be tactful, minimalist. (Lauren's conversation with an ex-boyfriend: "I told you I'd be your friend again eventually. I just couldn't do it at first." "It's just hard to get over." "I know." And--scene!) The Hills is like a music video, an art-directed distillation of emotion that would only be ruined by too many words. It's life, if you were young, lucky and beautiful and had your own cinematographer and sound-track curator. If this is fake, maybe reality...
...MINIMALIST SUIT Patagonia's $530 wet suit uses less neoprene, along with recycled polyester, chlorine-free wool and PVC-free kneepads...
...fact, it's a shame Chahine's work isn't familiar in this benighted part of the movie world. He was no minimalist Sphinx; he believed less was never enough. Embracing a splashy masala of styles, he threw everything - ideas, people, whole nations and regions - up in the air for the viewer to try to catch. And beyond his movies' entertainment value, it wouldn't hurt for Americans to see the visions of a cosmopolitan filmmaker from the Arab world, who speaks for himself but reflects the dreams and fears of a people whose popular culture is nearly unknown...
...more than the unwise desire to spend someone else's money on special effects that are inherently antithetical to the antic. The phrase someone ought to be whispering in their ears is "Less is more." It's a concept that might have been catnip to a superb minimalist like Steve Carell...
...that effect with concrete is the ever charming paradox of his work. But in that way, his buildings bear the mark of two 20th century Modernists he admires, Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, who found in concrete an opportunity for blunt majesty and even a kind of lyricism. The minimalist Modernism that Ando practices may not be in vogue these days. But in the right hands, it still works wonders...