coyness

He wouldn’t call it coyness but rather a type of creativity.

It seldom stops trying to convince you how sensitive it is, even as its mix of coyness and overstatement, its clunky tonal seesaws between humor and pathos, and its pride in its own good liberal conscience suggest that it hasn’t begun to think through its characters and their circumstances at all.

It’s a tough call, but for my money Vincent zur Linden gives the evening’s most indelible turn: Playing both the aspiring actor Adam and the hustler Leo, zur Linden shifts between coyness, arrogance and twitching brokenness.

But Curl’s coyness about the situation didn’t mask the fact that the 24-year-old is in the final year of his contract and appears to be taking a page from teammate Daron Payne’s playbook — the defensive tackle sat out a portion of team drills last offseason over the lack of contract talks.

That coyness persists through the second half, with a series of suspended conversations and delayed reckonings that strain for honesty, only to bog down in the familiar language of art-house mannerism.