Sentences with phrase «certain sections of the film»

Certain sections of the film were really laboured and overdone, and for me the highlight of the film was the main character's hilariously OTT facial expressions.

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Knaggs» character, a mute seaman, narrates the film's key sections with an internal voice - over monologue that is more hissed than spoken, leading the audience down all manner of strange psychological paths around the script's action; Knaggs» seaman ultimately rescues the hero from near - certain death.

His new film, screening in the Un Certain Regard section of the festival, combines his skills at narrative and documentary filmmaking to create a brutal mockumentary of loosely connected vignettes about the propaganda - and conflict - riddled Donbass region in eastern Ukraine.

The smooth jazz score which punctuates the film gives certain sections the feeling of a silent movie, while the long awkward silences in the second act are like a lighter, less absurdist variant on the work of Samuel Beckett or Harold Pinter.

The pacing is good, but the film also comes with many obvious markers of rough editing and recuts, which makes the middle section feel muddled and disjointed; it's hard to see certain scenes as sequential and purposed, rather than stitched together from parts of what was seemingly a deeper (and longer) character study.

The Camera d'Or, which is given to the best first film from any section of the festival, went to Leonor Serrail's «Jeune Femme,» which screened in the Un Certain Regard section.

A slot in the experimentally inclined Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival seemed like a strange fit for this new film by David Mackenzie (Starred Up), with its starry cast and seemingly commercial intentions.

Other films from Cannes making their US debut at Telluride include the Russian «Loveless,» directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev, about an unhappy couple searching for their son, and winner of Cannes» Jury Prize; «A Man of Integrity,» by Mohammad Rasoulof, set in corrupt Iranian society, which won the Grand Prize of the Un Certain Regard section; «The Rider,» by Chloe Zhao, about a badly injured young South Dakotan rodeo rider, which won the top prize, the Art Cinema Award, of the Director's Fortnight; «Tesnota (Closeness),» about a Jewish family forced to try to ransom their son and his new bride, also in Un Certain Regard, by Kantemir Balagov; and Barbet Schroeder's documentary about a Buddhist monk, «Le venerable W.»

Although there's a certain skeeziness in the discussion of getting young girls to be naked for your picture and in a moment where Soisson (I think) compares part of the film to Salvador Dali's artwork (both sections reminding of how quickly these things can descend into ugliness or arrogance), it's otherwise a relatively painless track.

It's that middle section where a certain Hungarian filmmaker wins the foreign language film award or the director of a little - seen short injects mania and uncompromising glee into an evening full of been - there - done - that Meryl Streep stares.

By accident or by design, today's films premiering at Cannes, whether in competition, in the «A Certain Regard» section, or in special screenings out of competition, revolved around relationships, good, bad, or worse.

The filmmaker's second feature, «Taxidermia» made quite a splash at the festival back in 2006 as part of the Un Certain Regard section, and he was back at the festival with collage film «Final Cut» in 2012.

And now that the work the filmmakers are calling the «Them» version of «Eleanor Rigby» had its world premiere on Saturday night in the Un Certain Regard section, I can report that the new version is a wonderful film, touching and amusing and in the end deeply moving.

15) «The Dark Knight Rises» /» The Avengers» There seems to be a certain disproportionately noisy section of the internet that seem to think that picking between the hit superhero films of 2012 is like following a Glasgow football team or an American political party — you're either with Marvel or DC, and as such, you either like «The Avengers,» or «The Dark Knight Rises,» with the other automatically becoming the worst thing in the history of mankind.

The parallel Un Certain Regard section also opened, and the Kenyan film «Rafiki» from director Wanuri Kahiu was one of the first films screened.

As the movie takes place around the festive season, decorations were kept up as late as March in certain sections of the town to assist with filming.

The introspective, soft - spoken actor will be interviewed in an onstage Q&A at A Tribute to Viggo Mortensen on Saturday, June 11 at the Egyptian, followed by a screening of his latest film Captain Fantastic, which premiered at Sundance earlier this year and was just honored with the Best Director prize for writer / director Matt Ross from the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes.

Grisebach sat down with Film Comment during the Cannes Film Festival following the premiere of Western in the Un Certain Regard section to discuss the film's protracted genesis, the pressing influence of an increasingly corporatized Europe, and the search for a present - day equivalent of the iconic Western male.

The production was filmed at Shepperton Studios in mostly one location, but never bores, because director Duffell knew to take advantage of the «old dark house» and set each story mainly in a certain section of the house.

Audiences coming to Alain Guiraudie's Cannes Competition entry Rester Vertical after his break out hit Stranger By the Lake (which played in the Un Certain Regard sidebar in 2013 and won best film of the section) are likely to be puzzled, perplexed and possibly peeved; long time supporters will likely...

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