melodramatics

The acting in “Riot and Reckoning” loses a bit of discipline as the ranting grows louder along with the melodramatics.

And in a running gag, the old Tamil movies playing on a blind woman’s T.V. echo throughout the village, ironically inflecting Pellissery’s deadpan drama with their high-strung melodramatics, and lovingly pastiching a culture fed on stories that belie belief.

And in a running gag, the old Tamil movies playing on a blind woman’s T.V. echo throughout the village, ironically inflecting Pellissery’s deadpan drama with their high-strung melodramatics, and lovingly pastiching a culture fed on stories that belie belief.

If you want macabre melodramatics to watch one night with wine and friends, this film will assist.

The ride up with Fanny in Act 1 is gleeful, but the climb back down in Act 2, after the shine has worn off the marriage, plunges the show into dreary melodramatics.