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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."
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.
Judging by the histrionic Columbine massacre coverage you'd think that children are by nature innocent, free of violent or sexual thoughts until corrupted by our culture.
Going to work for Mike Leigh is not just a job, it's a histrionic quest.
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.