It is a bit contrived and stagy, but the music's nice and the images memorable.

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He has a stagy way of speaking out of the side of his mouth when he wants to share something possibly confidential.

NEWYORKER: Sheriff Joe

There is almost constant, often sublime talk, with extremely sharp inside-baseball of French politics and literature in addition to subtitles, the print should have footnotes yet the film is never static, stagy, or script-bound.

NEWYORKER: The Last Mitterrand