lived-in

The proceedings are deftly staged by Huston, here making his final work, and the cast, featuring his daughter Anjelica but otherwise mostly Irish, has a lived-in warmth that relaxes what might have been a stiff period drama.

The four of us enter the cabin to see a small space that looks very … lived-in.

The film feels, in part, like the work of theater artists challenging themselves to enliven a script, devising minor bits of behavior around the set to give the proceedings a lived-in feel—eating peanuts, getting up to shut a window, dancing to a country-western record.

The production design by Alexandra Schaller and costume design by Dakota Keller and Malgosia Turzanska feel appropriately lived-in and evoke the period without feeling precious.

Props and costumes — Quint’s battered jacket, Hooper’s rucksack, Brody’s Amity police patch — evoke the lived-in feel of Amity Island, alongside iconic objects like the “Beach Closed” sign and the fiberglass dorsal fin rigged for surface shots.