Wilfrid Almendra unfurls a section of glimmering Arizonian desert, replaying in a drolly literal manner the poetic notion of the painted desert. |
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It's here that The Duke of Burgundy strikes an innovative note: the film is set in a fantastical world populated only by women, all of whom are rapt attendees of drolly dull entomology lectures. |
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The arresting title drolly indicates the almost Manichean worldview espoused by Ray Wylie Hubbard, grizzled veteran of the Texas singer-songwriter scene. |
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By contrast, the drolly philosophical title-track describes Adam's life as free from worry or fear, but wonders where, without danger and temptation, lies his nobility? |
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The disintegrating relationship is drolly handled, with a goofily idiotic Spall the highlight. |
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