Word: seamlessness
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...advantage to creating a film with close to no dialogue. The dynamic between Aya and Temelko is genuine and convincing. Their sincerity and playfulness carry the movie.The interweaving of the two storylines—that of the pipeline and that of young love—is also seamless. The village must have water for the lovers to unite, but they must love each other for the quest for water to be worthwhile. The absolute purity of their love provides a compelling parallel to the sex-driven dynamics between the village’s other couples. The screenplay, though it pushes...
...soprano and tenor voices created a chorus of classical lines that conveyed a dialogue of teasing questions and indignant retorts. Raising a finger to his lips as if to silence the piano, Lang Lang physically signaled the dreamy transition into a barcarolle-like segment, which he executed with seamless tempo changes and delightful subito pianos. The distorted, showy embellishments critics have used to label Lang as a talented but immature pianist were completely absent from this piece, for Lang’s use of rubato was liberal but never stretched to the point of mannerism. The pianist swept the sonata...
...seamless system. Pat gets confused navigating between Smolens, who prescribes tests and medications, and CareLink, which must approve them. "The fact is, for guys like Pat, it requires a lot more work to do the same sorts of things" that would be a snap if he had insurance, says Smolens, sighing...
Balancing school and music is still a work in progress. When he talks about the difficulties of fitting both in, he cuts a sharp contrast to Albright and Koh. There’s no talk of regular hours, of rigidly regimented days, no mentions of seamless, play-it-by-ear heroic time management...
...until he meets Yu that he learns about an aspect of his wife’s life that had previously eluded him. Thus, Butoh’s dancing becomes a means through which Rudi can honor the memory of his wife while abandoning his own personal inhibitions.This seamless melding of contrasting personalities and viewpoints is also manifest in the film’s varied dialogue of English, German, and Japanese. To communicate with each other, Rudi and Yu must abandon their native tongues and speak English, thereby intimating that language is no communication barrier for this ostensibly odd couple. What...