“A decade passes, and the scene shifts back indoors, and from athletic nubility to the vampish languor of the Bohemian.”
“We notice, above all, the constriction of female opportunity: how brief was their nubility, and yet how slowly and deadeningly time passed within it.”
“Films that attack our nerves tend to rely on nubility, providing sacrificial flesh even when there are no vampires on set, but Bayona bucks the habit.”