The dungeon is more like a catacomb, linking a series of tableaux that expose the grisliest entrails of York's history. |
The film is composed of a series of tableaux, with scenes reminiscent of detailed paintings. |
There's a quaintness in these tableaux that's at first charming but eventually slides into overkill through sheer grating repetition. |
However, the real focus of the show was a set of recent paintings in which collage and paint are mixed in riotously colorful tableaux. |
He occasionally arranges his characters in artfully staged tableaux or still photos. |
Gone were the artificial and outmoded divisions into three or four acts with scene changes and elaborate tableaux. |