Word: mises
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...Resnais's efforts to give his film grave historical significance, Stavisky remains first and foremost a mood picture, an evocation of a sensibility. Stavisky's mise en scene is more important than its philosophical point. Its characters are only skin deep, if they go even that far--usually they stop, on purpose, at the make-up. Talleyrand said of those who were born after 1789 that they could never really know how good life could be. The same feeling--a combination of nostalgia, snobbery, and contempt for the newfangled present--permeates Stavisky. The final value judgement on this feeling, though...
Brel writes bombastic ballads about love and loss and even larger issues, such as old age, war and redemption. Brel is not modest, and neither are the people who honor him here. The songs have lots of volume but no energy or pith. The film's notion of mise en scène is to have one number-about sons-staged in front of a trio of crosses from which dangle three uncomfortable youths...
ANOTHER TENET of Artaud's theater dictated that the mise en scene is more important than the language. And his relative indifference to words is reflected in the play; even in the original French, speeches are full of stilted, awkward phrases, heavy-handed metaphors, and non sequiturs But if Artaud meant to avoid the conventional limitations of language, he certainly picked the wrong method. Other surrealistic authors, like fonesca, have successfully given words new impact but only by exercising careful control, not be ignoring them...
...Chabrol's self-appointed mission to heighten our awareness" of these struggles by presenting them in an admittedly exaggerated, stylized manner, a manner that deliberately jars against his utterly realistic mise-en-scéne. There are moments in his movies in which be lief in what one is seeing threatens to dissolve into laughter, but there are many more in which we are shocked into a new awareness that beneath the surface of ordinary-looking lives, high dramas of genuine moral dimensions are being played...
...these lapses are insignificant next to Peter Yates' overall handling of the mise en scene. He uses the Boston setting with a realistic understatement that subtly characterizes the life of its underworld. The camera follows the actors to alienate them in Boston City Plaza, or attune them to the low-life sleaziness inside Hayes Bickford; and at a Bruins game, Dillon, the man who murders Coyle, says to Eddie, "there's fifteen thousand people rooting for the Bruins out there, and nobody gives a fuck about...