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He left his 8,000-square-foot penthouse apartment in Greenwich Village and hopped into a waiting Mercedes-Benz van, which whizzed him a mile uptown to his helicopter, propellers awhirl.

Granted, it’s Christmastime, but on this particular evening the warm palette awhirl over the swirls of architect Moshe Safdie’s performing arts center was in tribute to the artist and philanthropist Jeff Hanson.

As the characters travel from 1980 to 1957, the actors grab props and costumes, the stage awhirl with movement; they’re often literally and figuratively rolling along, with an energy that encourages us to roll along, too.

Throughout, Ophüls sets the camera and the action awhirl, packing the frame with foregrounded hustle and bustle that lends the teeming, rustic events added romantic urgency.

His mind was awhirl with thoughts and memories, and, at the center of everything: the mystery of himself.