Happily, Berlinale audiences are made of sterner stuff.
It is this tension between subject and delivery that makes his films even the bad ones so intriguing.
Seven Veilsfollows this established approach.
Amanda Seyfried in ‘Seven Veils’Amanda Matlovich/Headless Films Inc.
The two fictions Salomeand the story created around its production are equally complex.
Jeanines task as director is fraught by the fact that the companys executive manager is the dead directors widow.
There are more malicious motives at play here, however.
She has another past with one of the understudies, an unhealthy tow of emotion neither can acknowledge.
Meanwhile, he watches her from the stalls during rehearsal with the greedy adoration of Herod forhisSalome,.
They will cave in.
Nothing here is being done in good faith.
As in the theatre which is, after all, a temple to counterfeit emotion so at home.
Jeanine apparently lives in another city.
So tangled, so tawdry: the dreary weight of this failing marriage is palpable.
It is an unforgiving kind of stringency; his frigidity leaves many viewers cold.
