Sentences with phrase «european art house films»

The concept of the musical willdelight anyone who loves European art house films, but requires no specialknowledge to follow the story.

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While names like Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette, Eric Rohmer and Francois Truffaut may not be familiar to even film - buffs without an extensive education in European art house (though most would certainly recognise the name of Jean - Luc Godard) they have gone on to influence filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorcese and Michel Gondry.

Duournau has set up an aesthetic of European low - budget art - house film, a sense of verisimilitude, to further drive home the allegory, and this extends to the effects and sound, with a score by Jim Williams that evokes both the generic French countryside, and the ongoing discord of Justine's mental and emotional state.

Hollywood action meets European art house in Luc Besson's first American film.

Like Tangerine, Baker films with a sun - dappled luminosity that's all but anathema in the European art house tradition of films about poverty.

Such meticulous, fashionable naturalism belongs to many European art films and not a few Sundance products (Carpignano, gifted cinematographer Wyatt Garfield and editor Affonso Gonçalves all worked on «Beasts of the Southern Wild,» whose director, Benh Zeitlin, co-wrote the score of «Mediterranea») and it's not always fortunate, resulting in films often destined to reach only elite audiences in festivals and art houses.

Perhaps more than any other art - house European film of the 1960s, Ingmar Bergman's striking 1966 masterpiece Persona embodies the period.

From a novel by Harlan Coben, Guillaume Canet directed the 2006 film that became a European hit and an art - house success in the US.

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Capitalism and its promise of a better life is explored through paintings on luxury fabrics whose patterns acquire a neo-classical painterly quality; Orientialism and a subtle critique of European values are explored in the films of his roadtrip to Pakistan and Afghanistan with shocking neutrality; and conceptual art is mocked in Potato House (1967) and paintings of absurd mathematical equations, while the series of self - portraits — Polke as astronaut, Polke as drug — confront the contemporary individual in the mire of history.