apart from

"We got elected in July and of course nothing had been done, nothing for 18 months apart from warm words."

"Everybody was being sick, apart from one man who kept calmly coming up the bar and ordering large whiskies."

Yet it was a tricky line to walk, and, in hindsight, perhaps even naive to believe the attraction could stand apart from a film that has long been out of circulation.

There are powerful moments, to be sure, surrounding the human drama, but, though moral questions are duly considered, the political drama registers less intensely — apart from it all seeming more than a little mad.

Some abandoned vehicles that look pretty much intact, apart from a dented bonnet here or a flat tyre there, are not spared either.