naturalism

With rotating camera angles, disappearing figures and scenes shot in candlelight, Pietro says he wanted to walk the “line of naturalism, but with something strange going on.”

I loved the characters, major and minor, and how their eccentricities sit in a bed of naturalism.

It’s what gives this compassionate, cautiously hopeful movie’s open-eyed naturalism a wonderful, pulsating humanity.

The raw spontaneous energy and naturalism of Silver’s films result from close collaboration with his artistic team, including his writers and actors.

But contemporary treatments of Shakespeare’s texts — eschewing naturalism, foregrounding psychological elements and topical resonances — are more in vogue.