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Doyle

[doil]

noun

  1. Sir Arthur Conan 1859–1930, British physician, novelist, and detective-story writer.



Doyle

/ dɔɪl /

noun

  1. See Conan Doyle

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And those Berger hallmarks are certainly on display in the new one, a drama about a dandy named Lord Doyle, a down-and-out con man and gambling addict on the brink of a breakdown in the kitschy gaming hub of Macau.

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We first see Doyle, whose title, as you’d probably guess, is self-bequeathed, through a reflection off his stainless steel room service tray.

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Doyle’s opulent Macau hotel suite is in disarray and he isn’t in much better shape.

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But her heart isn’t in her work and for reasons we never buy, she takes pity on Doyle, recognizing in him a “lost soul.”

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Here, he seems as lost in the bright lights as Doyle, piling on disorienting camera angles and an overcooked sound design to create an unfocused fever dream about individual excess that exhausts the humanity from its story.

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