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  • I liked the first one for the actual mis-en-scene, it was cleverly put together.

    Johnny Hardstaff’s Dark Room and Hi-Sim’s Jun & the Hidden Skies [Parallel Lines] | /Film 2010

  • More about mis-en-scene than the mystery at hand, Détective ostensibly follows the intersecting–but not necessarily connected–stories of a collected group of people ensconced in the Hotel Concorde St. Lazare in Paris.

    Buzzine » Jean-Luc Godard Boxed Set 2008

  • What follows is a meaningful dialogue about sexual repression in our society, using mis-en-scene, and music cues from Mozart in his “blue” period.

    Zombie Strippers (2008) 2008

  • RICH: I feel that it is somewhat fair, because I think that a lot of decisions that are made at Fox have to do with what is allowed to be reported, the spin that's put on it, even the mis-en-scene in terms of flags draping everything, and the use of language.

    CNN Transcript Sep 26, 2004 2004

  • So this was a palazzo of power... we started with this idea of a mis-en-scene of the people in the palace.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2012

  • So this was a palazzo of power... we started with this idea of a mis-en-scene of the people in the palace.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2012

  • Here Stein itemizes the domestic mis-en-scene of spoons and saucers also found in Letinsky's prints, cryptically rhapsodizing: "Light curls have no more curliness than soup" and "Sugar is not a vegetable."

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • There's an obvious tension from the outset but there's also a sense of constant dread, evoked both by the score and by Petzold and cinematographer Hans Fromm's ethereal mis-en-scene.

    Filmcritic.com Movie Reviews 2009

  • There's an obvious tension from the outset but there's also a sense of constant dread, evoked both by the score and by Petzold and cinematographer Hans Fromm's ethereal mis-en-scene.

    Filmcritic.com Movie Reviews 2009

  • There's an obvious tension from the outset but there's also a sense of constant dread, evoked both by the score and by Petzold and cinematographer Hans Fromm's ethereal mis-en-scene.

    Filmcritic.com Movie Reviews 2009

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