All of the men in this film feel completely incidental to the force of Michèle’s persona: momentary curiosities like birds hitting the window.

"Welcome to our little psychic gymnasium."

Came for the portrayal of addiction to prescription pain medication, stayed for the nihilism. After proclaiming the pointlessness of mediocrity and "petty domesticity," the scene where James Mason tries to murder his son with carnival music blaring from the TV in the background lends the title Bigger Than Life a sinister overtone.

"If I needs must glow, let me blush inward." Lady pirates seek revenge on an entire island in gorgeous, ahistorical, Shakespearean abstraction.