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The New Yorker 's Anthony Lane says the movie imitates the medium it critiques, "pumping up the humdrum into the histrionic."
Going to work for Mike Leigh is not just a job, it's a histrionic quest.
Glenn Close plays Camille Orcutt, Cookie's histrionic niece and the director of the church theatricals (currently Oscar Wilde's Salome ), whose hysterical obsession with hiding the "disgraceful" truth throws the town into an uproar.
The histrionic scene, the stage effects of which might have arisen from Tiepolo's involvement in Venetian theater, suggests sex for pay, with the crone in the role of procuress.
Chambers, in other words, is one of the most controversial Americans of the last half-century, his life a story rife with histrionic tableaux, profound ideological warfare, and high-level scandal.