As a director, Peirone is especially fluid, possessing a sensibility in which stylistic galumphery is less its own reward than a means of expanding narrative possibilities.
What is most captivating about the author’s approach is that he keeps history and biography in play, unsettled, open to possibilities that engage every thinking person in the rewriting of history and biography.
Similar to the work of Alfred Hitchcock and Fritz Lang, director Kiyoshi Kurosawa draws on genre to examine cultural norms and aberrations.
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