artifice

The movie star’s mask of artifice briefly vanishes, and all that’s left is a puppy dog look of yearning, a sad acceptance that it’s too late to change certain things.

Like Kogonada, I believe that artifice is a useful tool to dig up honesty.

“You can walk through the building and you can see that those surfaces are not really homogeneous. The material expresses itself with no artifice, and we wanted to preserve that.”

Generously, one might interpret this as a Brechtian nod toward the film’s artifice as an arch and knowing remake laden with references.

It deconstructs the artifice of a rock show, making The 1975 seem more human - but equally, it deflates the excitement of watching a band in full flow.