In most Mészáros features the films are open-ended, lack a conventional plot, and dialogue is sparse.

The music, however, takes a back seat to a rather conventional plot.

It is without any hint of melodrama, without any conventional plot, really.

In short, there's a lot more conventional plot.

They remain that way even when treated as part of a fairly conventional plot.

For instance, the three acts are not connected by a conventional plot, but instead by literary themes.

I was mesmerised and, probably for the first time, happy to commit to a film that didn't have a conventional plot to carry me through.

The writing was criticized as "ponderous", and having "familiar, conventional plots".

If the film could be said to have a conventional plot, this would presumably refer to the four "character" scenes.

Mendès' libretto, with its conventional plot, offered rather less encouragement to his creative abilities.