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Nudity and fashion become virtual emblems here, signaling the purity, fragility and preciosity of the subject.

Since 2016, after a brief retirement from moviemaking, he has found a new auteurist groove with modest resources, fast shoots, boundless energy and a striking lack of preciosity about the medium.

She flirts with preciosity, particularly in her overbearing use of Keaton.

“Darkness Odyssey” doesn’t become boring, but it does become a willful exercise in preciosity, in artful effects.

At first, this kind of physicality is engaging, but soon a kind of preciosity sets in, as gamelike exercises are developed.