Word: tableaux
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Unusual camera angles, obstructed views-particularly of conversing pairs-and the division of the work into three tableaux all serve, among other things, to keep us conscious of our voyeur status. The characters themselves tease our distance from the film. "What's that music?" one will ask referring to the soundtrack after a particularly absorbing drama. Finally the improbable conclusion, and one of the film's few hackneyed moments: an elegant string ensemble in an alley-the soundtrack's players taking a bow? -stirs memories of similar Fellini incongruities, satirized here by the moment's harshness...