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Blunt's Victoria both fresh and
restrained
throughout the film.
Though neatly laden throughout with nice moments, a fair amount of action and a little sleaze, the film does lose a little from a relatively
restrained
approach.
And is in fact better, more
restrained
and correct than, say, Blue Soldier.
As villified as the whites (particularly the Afrikaners) are portrayed in the film, any observant (non-casual) visitor to South Africa even now in 1999, not to mention 1977 when CRY FREEDOM takes place, will generally find white's attitudes towards blacks restrained, even understated.
It's a perfect role for Cuba Gooding, Jr., who's wonderfully
restrained
here.
The use of special effects was
restrained
making a more poetic rather than literal telling of the story.
I would have liked to have seen more vulnerability in Lucy Liu's portrayal, whenever she sees him in his various frazzled states, the man she loves and for whom she is performing a mission based on blind faith, some
restrained
vulnerability and flashes of genuine sympathy and concern would have made it a less one dimensional performance on her part.
The writing is crisp, realistic, nuanced, and even
restrained.
Anyway, this film is a fairly
restrained
affair, impeccably acted by its small cast, economically written, nicely photographed, and captured here on a pristine-looking DVD.
Joseph Cotton is brilliantly
restrained
as the out of his depth American writer.
Now the fact that William Shatner appears in DEVIL'S RAIN isn't much of a surprise, but it is surprising that his performance is rather
restrained.
First and foremost, it has a loopy, loony, don't-take-me-too-seriously quality, augmented by the music (one almost expects an accordion from some French cafe to be playing in the background, as in Delicatessen or Amelie, but it's a bit more
restrained
than that), which absolutely belies the seriousness of what's actually taking place.
Let's not hope so; for it would be an eternal sin to be, for lack of interest,
restrained
of these kind of movies in future.
It then "bursts into flames" when the overeager rescuing pilots have to be
restrained
from going searching for the Duke without any idea of what to do or where to go.
The film is
restrained
but powerful, which is why it has such a strong effect.
Jack is the one allowed to go over the edge throughout most of the film and Adam plays the more
restrained
straight man.
Chaney is no
restrained
and measured Dustin Hoffmann, and when he is playing someone retarded, he flaunts it, and blurts it.
Only slightly less impressive than Fuller's debut is this, his second film, with an excellent and slightly
restrained
Vincent Price as the eponymous title character, another true-life minor figure in the history of the Old West: James Addison Reavis, who in the 1880s concocted a grand schemed to defraud the United States of a large chunk of the then-territory of Arizona through forged documents showing a Spanish land grant handed down for a century and a half to the woman he was to make his bride.
Harvey Thew's screenplay has a decent number of double entendres but is surprisingly
restrained
with the homoerotic subtext--especially when Fay is discovered in bed with James Gleason! Nicely though somewhat statically directed by Michael Curtiz, The Matrimonial Bed also features some nifty set design and a few memorable shots in silhouette.
One comment here said, "They don't make 'em classy like this anymore" and he couldn't be more right: from the restrained, low-key performance of Streep (accent-free but looking perhaps more beautiful here than in any other film she's done; she nearly resembles those women in a Dutch Renaissance painting), balancing the "livelier" performance of Scheider, to the lovely muted blues, browns, greys and blacks of its cinematography.
That
restrained
but emotional performance.
Whoever suggested the making of this film, obviously was hampered by a limited budget and
restrained
by anything novel to include in the script.
The simple transport job gets more complicated when it turns out that people want the witness dead before he can testify--and those people are cops, led by Mosely's former partner, Frank Nugent (David Morse, who--as he always does--turns in a riveting performance that's marvelously restrained).
It was also exciting to watch the visions of the world in the 22nd and 23rd centuries but at the same time, the nuts and bolts aspects were deftly
restrained
(other movies set years in the future, such as The Fifth Element sometimes go gaudily overboard in depicting the future).
Debbie Reynolds is, as always, a joy to watch, and her
restrained
performance helps anchor the story.
The offbeat casting of perennial goofball David Arquette in one of the leads pays off with a surprisingly
restrained
and moving performance, and the rest of the cast is full of top-notch actors including Steve Buscemi, Harvey Keitel, Mira Sorvino, Natasha Lyonne, Daniel Benzali, and Topsy-Turvy's remarkable Allan Corduner as a Jewish doctor who assists the infamous Dr. Mengele in his horrific 'experiments.'
And the performances are remarkably restrained, yet lively.
Take a look at "The World According to Garp" where Williams worked with the great George Roy Hill to see a
restrained
and terrific performance.
Holden is
restrained
and easy, O'Neal very awkward, but the main culprit here is writer-director Blake Edwards (of all people), who sets the early pacing at such a slow drag that the picture never recovers.
First of all I love pretty explicit and audacious lesbian vampire flick "Vampyres"(1974),but more rare and obscure "Symptoms" is even better and certainly different in tone.It's a very subtle,calm and
restrained
horror film with plenty of mysterious atmosphere.Helen Ramsey arrives back from Switzerland to her old-fashioned family home,accompanied by a friend Ann West.It quickly becomes clear that Helen suffers from a nervous disposition.At night both Helen and Ann hear voices in the house and Helen seems convinced that there is something in the attic,a trap door to which is in the ceiling in a corner of her room."Symptoms" is a genuinely frightening horror film about a woman slowly slipping completely into madness.The cinematography is striking,the interior sets are terrifyingly dark and the acting by Angela Pleasence is fantastic.I fell in love with this film and can't praise it enough.
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