Mind you, even the Iron Curtain couldn't block out all Eurovision influences.
" Best of all is the choice of Melody Gardot's delicately jazzy "If the Stars Were Mine" to accompany the last scene, which ends with the most enigmatic of all Shakespeare's curtain lines: "The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.
It is rather like peeking under the curtain to see a play for which all the tickets were long since sold.
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And in the past few months he has seen the curtain of professional sports fully pulled back, in all its coldhearted clarity.
And so now it is I - a professional, educated, independent woman - who is standing behind a curtain inside the trauma centre in Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences, as a nurse makes me undress and examines my injuries.
No lack of rigor here nor in a glowing, half-length, posthumous portrait of the hero of the battle of Lepanto, Agostino Barbarigo, all gleaming armor and brushy highlights, against a crimson curtain.
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But Kumble, who is likely to be succeeded by Mahendra Singh Dhoni, took the decision into his own hands and brought the curtain down on his Test career at a ground where he took all 10 wickets in one innings against Pakistan in 1999.
Most of the greatest glass boxes were designed by Mies, who realized the potential of suspending a "glass curtain" on a steel frame as early as 1928 with his Barcelona Pavilion: Since all the support needed was provided by the metal, the architect could use walls to sculpt space, as Mies did brilliantly with a delicate balance of transparent and reflective surfaces.
On a narrative level, the picture is refreshingly patient, slowly peeling back the curtain to reveal its grand designs, with neither the need to rush into action or spoil all of its major story beats at one time.
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All set was he to grant his necessary imprimatur when one wee issue peeked out from behind a curtain.
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