infelicitous

It is impossible to extrapolate a single, definite point of view from them: they seem to demand that we look everywhere at once, be everywhere at once.

By choosing melodrama over realism, Chabrol is able to make use of the genre's outrageous coincidences, extreme emotions, and sudden psychological reversals, giving his film the texture of a distorted, subjective experience-the

as Robert Preston performs it, it's a tinglingly joyous moment, the only drag act in film history that is not humiliating, but genuinely expansive.

Ruiz's images shake our security.

He has gained his art, but he has lost his life.

As Andre Bazin once said, all films are created equal. Whether they play at the Biograph (as will Violette) or the Chicago (as will Halloween), we owe them the same consideration, the same right to succeed or fail on their own terms.

Eijanaika.

Eijanaika