easy on the eyes

The meticulous and lush production design by Angelo Zamparutti, captured with practically dewy appreciation by the cinematographer Laurent Dailland, makes the movie easy on the eyes, but every so often its prettiness edges over into souvenir-shop kitsch.

It’s not for nothing that the nurse attending Dot describes him as “easy on the eyes” when she thinks Roy is Dot’s devoted husband, waiting for her to wake up.

But I respectfully request the version of Bosch portrayed by Titus Welliver on the Amazon series, because he’s easy on the eyes and escape room has “meet cute” written all over it.

In this day and age, when dating app failures are a common tale and misandry is a kind-of social media trend, seeking out men who are caring, respectful, in tune with their emotions and easy on the eyes is like searching for a needle in a haystack.

And the production, filmed on location in France and Hungary, and involving a lot of nighttime battle special effects, is easy on the eyes.