Sentences with phrase «fantastic woman the film»

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He was superb company, a fantastic gossip and married to a wonderful woman in Jill Craigie, the film director.

Suffused with fantastical elements, dreamlike sequences and hallucinatory images, A Fantastic Woman stars Daniela Vega, a trans actress, and her performance roots the film in a kind of intimate verisimilitude.

Lelio, who also directed the excellent «Gloria» and last year's Oscar winner for best foreign film, «A Fantastic Woman,» never shortchanges the desire or the faith, a neat balancing act between the competing elements at the heart of Disobedience, and the success of which makes it so compelling and worthwhile.

Everyone in Disobedience is representative and every scene is declarative, and up to a point it feels as if the film is entirely following in A Fantastic Woman's footsteps.

The question of whose disobedience, and what kind of disobedience it is, are at the heart of this absorbing and moving love story from Chilean director Sebastián Lelio, his English language debut, following very quickly on the heels of his film A Fantastic Woman which has been a festival - circuit hit this year.

In «A Fantastic Woman,» a trans woman fought to be allowed to grieve for her dead lover, and Lelio's focus on the cruelty of the surrounding world pushed the film into a nightmare - sWoman,» a trans woman fought to be allowed to grieve for her dead lover, and Lelio's focus on the cruelty of the surrounding world pushed the film into a nightmare - swoman fought to be allowed to grieve for her dead lover, and Lelio's focus on the cruelty of the surrounding world pushed the film into a nightmare - scape.

The 2018 Academy Award nominations also include another transgender entry in the Best Foreign Language Film category with the Chilean / German co-production, A Fantastic Woman, a film about a trans woman who faces transphobia while mourning her lover's dWoman, a film about a trans woman who faces transphobia while mourning her lover's dwoman who faces transphobia while mourning her lover's death.

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM BPM (Beats Per Minute) A Fantastic Woman First They Killed My Father In the Fade - Winner The Square Thelma

We don't accept or like each other or ourselves enough,» I believe that there is a light that shines through these films, whether it's told through satire («The Square»), through fantasy («A Fantastic Woman»), hope («The Insult») or humor («On Body and Soul»)

Though it's evident that Marina comes from a different class than most of the film's other characters, A Fantastic Woman is withholding about her background and family — and this would be less of a problem if Lelio and co-screenwriter Gonzalo Maza offered her much in the way of motivation or aspirations.

This is after all a story featuring teenage characters called Mr Fantastic (special power: stretchy limbs), The Invisible Woman (special power: take a guess) and the villainous Victor von Doom, adapted from a lightweight 1960s comic strip and given a twenty - first century makeover by a guy whose first film, 2011's «Chronicle», was an ugly, noisy found - footage mess.

In a prolific filmmaking burst, the Argentinean - Chilean director Sebastián Lelio («Gloria») will bring two films to TIFF, both in a feminist vein: the lesbian romance «Disobedience» (a fall festival debut), and the trans drama «A Fantastic Woman,» which premiered in Berlin.

The best international film trophy went to the Chilean drama A Fantastic Woman and director Sebastián Lelio.

Perhaps the best transgender film we've seen to date, on a whole other level of excellence above even the Academy Award - winning A Fantastic Woman.

Participant's more than 80 films, including Spotlight, Contagion, Lincoln, The Help, He Named Me Malala, The Look of Silence, CITIZENFOUR, Food, Inc. and An Inconvenient Truth, have collectively earned 56 Academy Award ® nominations and 12 wins, including Best Picture for Spotlight and Best Foreign Language Film for A Fantastic Woman.

Disobedience marks the first English - language film for Chilean director Lelio — whose transgender romance A Fantastic Woman recently won the Academy Award for best foreign - language film — and it is also his most affecting work.

Larraín also produced Sebastián Lelio's 2013 movie Gloria, as well as his latest film A FANTASTIC WOMAN, also nominated for an Oscar.

Chilean director Sebastian Lelio's recent string of films, Gloria and A Fantastic Woman, portray unique, intimate experiences of women characters who are disarmingly genuine and authentic.

A Fantastic Woman flirts with magical realism, as that bending - against - the - wind scene suggests, but Lelio generally keeps the film in touch with everyday, mundane matters.

Best foreign language film «A Fantastic Woman» «First They Killed My Father» «In the Fade» «Loveless» «The Square» IMMEDIATE REACTION: Who would have thought that Angelina Jolie would one day end up in the best foreign language film category?

The Chilean star of Sebastián Lelio's A Fantastic Woman offers her take on the film's powerful message.

An openly trans actress presented for the first time, and her movie, A Fantastic Woman, won best foreign language film.

It's obviously too early to tell, but if Poland submits this film for Oscar consideration next year (which is a big if since Pawel Pawlikowski, Oscar winner of IDA, should have new film COLD WAR ready this year), it could be a big player à la ON BODY AND SOUL and A FANTASTIC WOMAN.

The Foreign Language Film Oscar shortlist came out last Thursday with six of our predicted 9 films making the cut in addition to a 7th film we had pegged as an alternative also making the shortlist (A Fantastic Woman).

Latino talent triumphed again when the Chilean drama A Fantastic Woman, starring trans actor Daniela Vega in the lead, won best foreign film.

While the multi - layered / multi-genre A Fantastic Woman is «not a cause film,» Lelio has previously told me at its center «is a real beating heart, Daniela's heart.

The film stars Miles Teller as Reed Richards (Mr. Fantastic), Kate Mara as Sue Storm (The Invisible Woman), Michael B. Jordan as Johnny Storm (The Human Torch) and Jamie Bell as Ben Grimm (The Thing).

Making history, however, are the foreign film «A Fantastic Woman» and feature documentary «Strong Island,» projects with transgender voices, making it quite possible that the work of an openly trans person could earn one of the industry's top prizes in March.

Notable examples of people of color representation in the nominations pool come in the documentary category where the black male director of «Strong Island,» Yance Ford, is the first openly trans person to have a film nominated, and in foreign - language film where «A Fantastic Woman,» starring Chilean trans actress Daniela Vega, is a possible winner.

Chile's Oscar nominee for best foreign language film is a drama called «A Fantastic Woman.»

Monday, «A Fantastic Woman,» in which Vega stars as a trans woman, was nominated by the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. for the best foreign film Golden GWoman,» in which Vega stars as a trans woman, was nominated by the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. for the best foreign film Golden Gwoman, was nominated by the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. for the best foreign film Golden Globe.

Winner: Trans actress Daniela Vega's superb turn in «A Fantastic Woman» was widely noticed and praised, making the Chilean film the favorite here.

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Geographically, the five nominated titles in the foreign language film category stretch from the discos of Santiago, Chile («A Fantastic Woman») to the outskirts of Moscow («Loveless») with stops in Lebanon («The Insult»), Hungary («On Body and Soul») and Sweden («The Square»).

Not content to bring just one award - winning film («A Fantastic Woman «-RRB- to TIFF 2017, Sebastián Lelio doubles up this year with another engrossing female - led drama.

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM A Fantastic Woman (Chile) On Body and Soul (Hungary) The Insult (Lebanon) Loveless (Russia) The Square (Sweden)

The Square, Call Me By Your Name, The Florida Project, Mudbound and A Fantastic Woman are just some of the early announced films hitting the Mill Valley Film Festival The Venice and Telluride Film Festivals are just kicking off but the Mill Valley Film Festival, now in its 40th season, is set to show off some of the fall and...

Geographically, the five nominated films stretch from the discos of Santiago, Chile («A Fantastic Woman»), to the outskirts of Moscow («Loveless») with stops in Lebanon («The Insult»), Hungary («On Body and Soul») and Sweden («The Square»).

And, the nomination of A Fantastic Woman in the Best Foreign Film category is another first and a very positive sign for the future of film.

A Fantastic Woman is her second film, and the first in which she carries the movie.

The film, which maintained a quiet profile after its Toronto premiere last year so as to avoid diverting attention away from A Fantastic Woman, is another magisterial exploration of identity and sacrifice.

The films, listed in alphabetical order by country, are: Chile, «A Fantastic Woman,» Sebastián Lelio, director; Germany, «In the Fade,» Fatih Akin, director; Hungary, «On Body and Soul,» Ildikó Enyedi, director; Israel,...

We have a number of LGBTQ people / films up for Oscars tonight: Dee Rees and James Ivory (both in Adapted Screenplay), the Chilean nominatee A Fantastic Woman, and the Best Pic nominee Call Me By Your Name, and Rachel Morrison, the first woman nominated in CinematogrWoman, and the Best Pic nominee Call Me By Your Name, and Rachel Morrison, the first woman nominated in Cinematogrwoman nominated in Cinematography.

In honor of this week's release of «A Fantastic Woman,» the pick today is going to be another Academy Award nominated foreign film.

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A FANTASTIC WOMAN, along with IN THE FADE, are the likeliest contenders among female - led films (with better odds than ON BODY AND SOUL and FÉLICITÉ).

Certainly an overall impressive film, A Fantastic Woman straddles between the maturely realized and the melodramatic.

While the slower pacing in the beginning of the film, as well as the focus on the strength and empowerment of all three young women may not interest fans of «more traditional» westerns, the film is a fantastic look at the willpower and resolve of three strong capable women in the face of some of the worst conditions that war can bring about.

Before we dive in to this year's five foreign film Oscar nominees — «A Fantastic Woman,» «On Body and Soul,» «Loveless, «The Square,» and «The Insult» — we should probably dissect the category itself, one that probably remains an enigma for those who will tune in to watch the 90th Academy Awards March 4.