“Past Lives” and “The Holdovers” are excellent original screenplays full of characters that feel real and uncontrived, which is funny considering the characters in “Maestro” are real but feel the most fake.

Street photographers — like news photographers — shoot life as it happens, natural and uncontrived.

“Dylan is — and I can say this in equal parts for my feeling about her as a person and as an actress — as uncontrived as it gets,” Penn says.

But quickly Wondratschek’s story reveals itself to be entirely original and uncontrived.

Spone, a trained dancer, proved especially nimble as Anis, with crisp lines and an uncontrived ability to convey emotions through mime.