But there's no denying the visual eloquence of the work (the re-creation of Schiele's painting a portrait of his wife is a coup de theatre) and its affecting sincerity.
Praised by some reviewers for its unmannered visual eloquence, the movie cannily uses actors in street clothes to elucidate Chekhov's universal themes.
If the world according to Antonioni is a spiritual wasteland, the visual eloquence of his films consistently transcends the despairing mood.
First and last, it is the visual eloquence of Felix E. Cochren's setting that says more than Karimah's words.
At such moments, Mr. Angelopoulos inspires awe for his profound visual eloquence and constitutional inability to think small.
Besides its cornucopia of splendidly interpreted songs, "Blues" is a potent blend of visual eloquence and historical sweep that engages the eye and touches the heart.
But in "Enduring Love" the confrontations are staged and the characters revealed with a visual eloquence missing from Mr. Michell's earlier work.
Less an actors' film than a series of elaborate tableaux, it has a visual eloquence that extends well beyond the limits of its story.
If these walls could speak, as he intends them to, with visual eloquence, they might tell the tales that were responsible for the building genres Mr. Casebere chooses to represent.
There is no question that Mr. Abdoh, who owes heavy stylistic debts to Richard Foreman, is capable of great visual eloquence.