“Laughter is the stubborn reward of grim times.”

“Laughter is the stubborn reward of grim times.”

“Laughter is the stubborn reward of grim times.”

“It is a quintessential example of the whirling kinetics that drive a Keaton film, in which not just the medium but the human body- the permutations of the sinews, the shock of the limbs -seems infinitely elastic, an unruly instument to be wilded with a cheeky kind of grace.”