storyteller

It’s the idea that maybe — just maybe — we writers and storytellers can chip away at this.

He’s not only the show’s tragically doomed protagonist but also its storyteller, and he anchors the production with a handsome ordinariness.

This is Ruizpalacios’ fourth feature film in roughly a decade and feels like a big step forward, a move from being a promising talent to someone truly coming into their own as a storyteller.

An extremely private person, Steiner lived the nightmare without fanfare, without telling anyone outside of his inner-circle, the loquacious storyteller keeping his most important words to himself.

A vital storyteller, he thrillingly illustrates Maurice Maeterlinck’s original play, as thoughtfully used surtitles made especially apparent.