Sentences with phrase «bergman chamber piece»

Even when things take a breather in the third act — which becomes an enclosed, clearly budget - cut chamber piece that's closer to an episode of «The Walking Dead» than the giant scope we've seen before — we're not any clearer to understanding who he actually is as a person.

Even more than most versions of Anna Karenina, this chamber piece is heated by two combustible characters, not by the winds of war and peace.

This is a finely suspenseful and mysterious chamber piece until we leave the bunker and the movie officially connects into the Cloverfield universe.

Marjorie Prime is a contemplative, intimate and poetic chamber piece, superbly told and nimbly acted, with equal parts nuance and empathy.

DENIAL serves as a passionate and talky chamber piece which examines both sides of the Holocaust debate, and while it's done very well, there's no question whose side we're on.

An intimate chamber piece for two, superbly acted by Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn, this is a mature, well - crafted movie.

In parts almost a tract for medical students, «Amour» is a chamber piece, one which takes place almost completely in the home of Georges (Jean - Louis Trintagnant) and his wife Anne (Emmanuelle Riva).

Jazz trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire (pictured) and rapper Kool A.D. will present the world premiere of their new chamber piece in St. Paul, Minn. in February.

plays out as an absurdist chamber piece: a single - location thriller constructed out of tightly - observed social interactions.

AVC: A lot of the film is a chamber piece.

Here he's made a chamber piece of quiet scenes, acutely heard dialogue and subterranean emotional shifts.

And yet it is worth seeing as a chamber piece, an exercise in which two great actors expand their range and work together in great sympathy.

It's a loose adaptation of British novelist Sarah Waters» Fingersmith; it's a milestone of LGBT cinema in conservative South Korea; it's an unapologetically kinky slice of erotica Tinto Brass at his most florid would be proud of; it's a Byzantinely structured tale of con and counter-con that makes real demands of its audience to keep up; it's a stirring narrative of women escaping from bastard men; it's a vividly sketched chamber piece; and — most importantly — it's a damn good yarn.

Adapted by Almereyda from Jordan Harrison's 2014 play of the same title, the film is a seamless, unshowy weave of chamber piece and speculative fiction; at times it suggests a lo - fi companion piece to Spike Jonze's «Her» or perhaps an unusually soothing episode of «Black Mirror.»

A chamber piece that perfectly orchestrates stellar character work, razor - wire tension and some shocking twists and turns, 10 Cloverfield Lane reinvents the modern thriller with a dark, science - fiction - friendly twist of the knife.

The film becomes a chamber piece as the merry trio settle in, cook dinner, and play board games to the poppy tunes on Harold's cool jukebox.

But every taste of the magical, the spiritual, keeps her pushing, and Gavin's ending is worth enduring this lush - but - intense chamber piece.

I judged too quickly, thinking him one of those actors who prides himself on making the big bad movies in order to fund the small good ones — a kind of vanity tax upon the audience, whereby the pointless shoot -»em - up is the price we supposedly pay for the chilly little chamber piece about divorce.

Even a chamber piece like Two Girls and a Guy, filmed in one apartment, appears straightforward, until it swerves entirely off the road into a ditch that you never saw coming.

As a Studio Ghibli production, Arrietty is a more minor work, a chamber piece as opposed to the towering Wagnerian heights of Spirited Away.

Released: September 15 Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffer Director: Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan) Why it's great: Relentless, morbid, and empowered like an Adderall - fueled, all - night Philosophy final prep session, Aronofsky's chamber piece is not for the weak of heart (or anyone who flinches at the sight of a weak human heart, for that matter).

The prank part has to do with the movie that's being offered up in such extravagant trappings — when you think of Tarantino shooting a Western in 70 mm, you picture sweeping shots of cowboys and cattle stampeding across big sky country, rather than the rather intimate chamber piece he's made here.

However, the less successful Closed Curtain (2013, directed with Kambuzia Partovi) was a claustrophobically self - referential chamber piece, and suggested that Panahi's plight was getting the better of him.

Unlike the found - footage monster mayhem of Cloverfield, Trachtenberg's film (his first) is an intimate chamber piece set in an underground bunker, played out with only three characters.

Following the disappointment of Kim Jee - woon's The Last Stand and the lukewarm reception of Park Chan - wook's meticulous chamber piece Stoker, Bong Joon - ho has created with Snowpiercer the most accomplished overseas work of any Korean filmmaker to - date.

Garland's science - fiction chamber piece — his first film as director, and fifth as screenwriter, after 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Never Let Me Go and Dredd — starts from the premise that no one knows us better than our internet browsers, then turns that queasy intimacy inside out.

Unlike the orchestral Boogie Nights and Magnolia, Phantom Thread is a chamber piece, featuring three instruments.

But The Dreamers isn't about Paris's 1968 cultural revolution in a literal sense, choosing instead to use its setting as the backdrop for a chamber piece about Matthew, Theo, and Isabelle, left alone in the siblings» parents» flat.

It's a sort of chamber piece, while he has made his name with great ensemble casts and epic stories, but he's still looking for the epic.

And there's Coppola's Civil War - set gothic chamber piece, The Beguiled.

Emerging director JC Chandor's debut, Margin Call, was a wordy chamber piece featuring an all - star cast, but for his second effort, All is Lost, he takes a refreshingly approach, shrinking his cast to a sole lead (the legendary Robert Redford) and giving him a mere three lines of dialog.

Staged as a three - handed chamber piece between Winstead, Goodman and Gallagher Jr., the film hinges on the performances of its cast.

It Comes at Night is a film of tense gradations, a chamber piece set at the twilight of humanity.

With the help of Bergman's natural talent for scriptwriting, she's directed Private Confessions and Faithless into compelling and potent chamber pieces.

A film which begins as a chamber piece set in a very specific period suddenly begins to lurch forward in time in disconcerting fashion.

Then there is Brock Norman Brock and Nicolas Winding Refn's «Bronson,» a brilliant, mad chamber piece of a sort that is more a showcase for Tom Hardy's blistering portrayal than anything else.

I think for Chris Nolan, the interesting thing about Chris was that even though «The Dark Knight» was as large a movie as it was, I always felt like I was doing a chamber piece in the sense that the scenes were always involving a small group of people.

Not only is «Violent & Daisy,» a mostly three - person chamber piece, suited more for the stage, but the dialogue between Violent and Daisy and between the two girls and a depressed man dying from pancreatic cancer is banal.

This looks like a return to the moodier, intense fare of Kill List along with the chamber piece quality of his terrific debut Down Terrace (which largely took place in a house).

If this is indeed a chamber piece, Ava's a femme fatale, as beguiling and innocent as some of her best human counterparts, but with a disconcerting twist.

Luca Guadagnino assembles a very intimidating quartet for this chamber piece of sexual tension.

Naturalism is second nature to us these days, at least in indie chamber pieces like The Seagull.

Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Cannes Palme d'Or winner is an epic chamber piece by a contemporary great.

A chamber piece.

It's a chamber piece with an obvious villain pegged straightaway, and an ending that's aloof instead of artful, and pedantic instead of climactic.

Russian Ark is a bracing tonic, a generous, and endlessly inventive adventure through a museum, with a cast of hundreds, where as Victoria almost feels like a cramped chamber piece by comparison.

The movie could have stood to be slightly shorter to give its terrors more potency, but Don't Be Afraid of the Dark is still a nicely effective chamber piece that should please audiences tired of all that paranormal activity.

In Darkest Hour, Wright manages to find the power in restraint, though his film is still far more mannered and art - directed than your standard political chamber piece.

With his signature shrewd repartee and gleefully OTT violence, Quentin Tarantino's latest film, The Hateful Eight, is a grisly and gratifying ensemble article that doubles as chamber piece.

It's quite a small piece — a chamber piece of a movie — basically centered around three characters and the experiences they go through.