1.   As a result, scenes go on too long, especially in the Ecstasy part.

2.   As deathbed scenes go, the last gasp of Chateau de Groussay was particularly lively.

3.   As two armed men run into the street, the scene goes into slow motion.

4.   At times the early scenes go by almost too fast to register.

5.   A few scenes early on go nowhere and do very little in the way of developing the story.

6.   A few scenes go soft in the wrong places.

7.   But one drawback is that some scenes go on too long before requiring a decision.

8.   Gemignani remains on his feet, watching so he can sense where a scene is going and ensure that the song becomes a natural extension of it.

9.   In less than five years the arts scene here has gone from invisible to explosive.

10.   It was no big deal as far as city scenes go, but it could have had an uglier twist.