On the whole, though, the flashbacks are clumsily integrated into the main action, and can't be salvaged by the staging. |
It is never a good sign when a film is told in flashbacks and the same actors are playing the same roles, back and forth. |
The story is intercut with flashbacks to earlier summers, when the sun shone and everything in the garden was lovely. |
In a series of flashbacks, the film dramatizes the unfortunate consequences of this belief system. |
Here, honor, freedom, love, betrayal and friendship are intermingled during a World War II drama through a series of flashbacks. |
Time is treated kaleidoscopically, whether in selective moments, flashbacks or offstage voices from the past. |