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Rather too much time is spent repeating staged close-ups of a left hand sketching in ink or applying paint, or else executing inscrutable mirror-writing on parchment — Leonardo’s secretive signature method — coupled with explanatory voice-over.

It also serves as an MRI into the inner life of Didion, who has been somewhat of a frustratingly inscrutable presence.

“Bill got to the core of Johnny as much as anybody was going to, but he was in many ways an inscrutable guy.”

“Grotesquerie” may have been inscrutable to most of us when it began, but its star and executive producer, Niecy Nash-Betts, knew exactly where it was going, and the importance of staying mum about it.

A good opera “speaks to something specific about the human condition, and isn’t just some dull, remote, inscrutable museum piece,” he told Salon.