Word: shadowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...four-term councillor doesn't live inthe shadow of her husband. Instead, the WestCambridge resident devotes her time to helpingsenior citizens, beautifying neighborhoods andfighting crime...
Actually, it's pretty hard to see him at all. In literally every scene, every character's face is half covered in shadow, creating a veil effect. In one or two places this device might have made a clever comment on Gallimard's (and everyone else's) culturally induced blindness. Instead it just seems like nobody has enough sense to switch on a light bulb...
White House lobbyist Howard Paster, meanwhile, has drafted Cabinet officers into a "shadow whip" system aimed at turning the undecided around. On "even" weeks, agency chiefs meet with three undecided members; on "odd" weeks, they are deployed to at least one fence-sitter's congressional district to make speeches, attract local press and provide "cover" for the lawmaker to vote...
...brilliant opening scene, appropriately set in a movie theater, sets up the strange dialectic between fact and fiction when Dr. Petiot, unimpressed by the evil of the vampire on screen, mutters his disapproval: "This is ridiculous and clumsy." As the camera freezes the doctor's shadow, the viewer is invited to compare the distorted figure of the bug-eyed vampire to the well-groomed physician. Castles and cauldrons are not the doctor's style. He jumps on to the stage and into the screen to show us how real evil works...
...stage, John Dexter's sumptuously stylized production transformed tabloid headlines into a potent truism: the heart sees what it sees. Onscreen, the opera singer's gender is never in question; his 5 o'clock shadow gives him away to everyone but the diplomat. Jeremy Irons tries manfully, and John Lone womanfully, to give real life to the characters, but the close-ups defeat them. So do some unlikely plot points: the defendant and his accuser are put alone to undress and wrestle in a police wagon; the diplomat daubs himself as Madama Butterfly before a rapt audience -- of French convicts...