Sentences with phrase «bittersweet life shot»
by Walter Chaw Essentially a remake of Kim Jee - woon's A Bittersweet Life shot through with oodles of late -»80s John Woo gunplay, stuntman - turned - director Chad Stahelski's John Wick is, damnit, really just so much fun.
http://www.filmfreakcentral.net/ Not exact matches
Fruitvale Station (Unrated) Bittersweet biopic recounting the serendipitous events which transpired during the final hours in the life of Oscar Grant (Michael B. Jordan), a young black man shot in the back on New Year's day by a white police officer while being detained on an Oakland train platform.
Wrote Eric Kohn at Sundance, «Intimately shot and almost exclusively focused on the two characters» daily lives, «The End of Love» maintains an effectively bittersweet atmosphere that works its quiet spell throughout, although it aims too low to leave a particularly strong impression.»
I have a hard time believing that someone like Kim, who makes films like A Bittersweet Life and I Saw the Devil, films so eloquently about the consequences of violence both real and cinematic, doesn't see the irony in a vintage gun - fetish shoot -»em - up starring the aging poster - child of homoerotic manmeat wielding cold, hard, gunmetal dicks in defense of his adopted land.