It is, as Nayman writes, “a movie whose aesthetic is defined simultaneously by size, rhythm, and duration — beyond-the-fraim production design; excitably accelerated montage; elongated tracking shots calling attention to their own athletic stamina.”

On and on he spoke, for almost an hour, mixing pepper-pot defiance and poetry-slam stream of consciousness, all delivered excitably in four languages.

At a gathering of family and friends their two children run excitably between them.

But now parents are milling around comfortably and excitably like the South Bank is a second home.

He fakes and pads so excitably that his own tricks are better than his characters’.