Sentences with phrase «half chamber drama»

«A Ghost Story» David Lowery reunites with his «Ain't Them Bodies Saints» stars Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck for a chamber drama about a man who dies, and is forced to watch his loved one grieve over expanses of time.

The film is like a landlocked Bergman chamber drama divested of any ambivalence regarding human relationships.

Those willing to enter The Club will discover an original and brilliantly acted chamber drama in which Larrain's fiercely political voice comes through as loud and clear as ever.

An unexpected knack for the chamber drama is revealed as a talent of Haneke's, whose films tended toward the expansive, existential, and sometimes deliberately esoteric.

Brilliantly structured as a contemporary chamber drama about loving your neighbours in the first part and, in the second, as a dreamy silent film re-imagining of their heretofore unknown histories, this is the rare critical darling that's as warm as it is intelligent.

His new film, a chatty 18th - century chamber drama, reunites the stars of his 1998 masterpiece Last Days of Disco: Kate Beckinsale and Chloë Sevigny.

Unfortunately, the narrative frequently diverts the story away from the gripping chamber drama at the heart of the film.

Olivier Assayas is about as protean as today's great filmmakers come, but the last thing I expected from the mad genius behind the globe - trotting, gorgeously kinetic Boarding Gate is a Chekhovian chamber drama whose mantra could be essentially reduced to: posterity cares.

There were many parallels in this film to your previous chamber dramas like The Dreamers, Besieged, even Last Tango.

Gorgeously photographed in creamy sepia tones and driven by two virtuoso central performances, this tender, daring chamber drama is a more - relevant - than - ever look at fascism's human cost.

Half chamber drama, half dark dramedy of errors, director Miguel Arteta (The Good Girl, 2002 Sundance Film Festival) discerns his characters by showing their most telling reactions, such as the subliminal determination of Hayek's face, while spinning an indelible wickedness onto this tale of a fateful encounter.

Paul Thomas Anderson's 1950s London chamber drama was expected to receive at least three of those six, for Jonny Greenwood's score, Mark Bridges» costumes and Daniel Day - Lewis» lead performance as a petulantly exacting couturier named Reynolds Woodcock.

«Blue Jay» (Alex Lehmann) The official synopsis: «Meeting by chance when they return to their tiny California hometown, two former high - school sweethearts (Mark Duplass and Sarah Paulson) reflect on their shared past through the lens of their differently dissatisfied presents, in this tender, wise and affecting chamber drama from first - time feature director Alex Lehmann.»

But those willing to enter «The Club» will discover an original and brilliantly acted chamber drama in which Larrain's fiercely political voice comes through as loud and clear as ever.

As befits its reclusive heroine, it's largely a claustrophobic chamber drama, and arguably Davies's most uncompromisingly austere film since The Long Day Closes (92).

The rest of This Is the End functions as a surprisingly basic chamber drama, with principal leads Rogen, Baruchel, and Franco barred inside the house with Jonah Hill and Craig Robinson as they hoard food supplies and fight over water and sleeping arrangements.

That's where you'll find curiosities such as best supporting performance votes for Ray Romano, who takes a surprisingly dramatic turn in «The Big Sick» as the father of a coma - stricken woman (Zoe Kazan), and support for Salma Hayek's turn in Miguel Arteta's politically - tinged chamber drama «Beatriz at Dinner.»

And it's a shame that misgivings about its final scenes threaten to overwhelm what is otherwise an undeniably satisfying and suspenseful chamber drama bolstered by punishingly effective sound design, an often menacing score from Bear McCreary and excellent leading turns from Mary Elizabeth Winstead and John Goodman.

Compared to this essential drama of man's fate, Clouzot's Diabolique is almost a chamber drama.

It's like a landlocked Bergman chamber drama divested of any ambivalence regarding human relationships.

44 Inch Chest (Image)-- A chamber drama of a tough guy movie, a reunion of former crime partners, but the occasion is personal vengeance: get the guy dating the estranged wife of Ray Winstone's hopelessly in love bastard.

Sweet songs of sad thought: Kore - eda's latest understated chamber drama gets to the heart of sibling dynamics

After all, he had just produced a one - two hit of moody, studio - funded chamber dramas featuring big - name leads (Nicole Kidman, Ben Stiller) who seemed intent on stripping away their movie - star vanity to revel in warts - and - all portrayals of unglamorous, perhaps even mean - spirited, broken characters.

Ingmar Bergman's intense, character - based chamber drama Through a Glass Darkly has always seemed like it would make for a great, intimate theater piece.

We mentioned last April that Ingmar Bergman's intense, Oscar - winning chamber drama Through a Glass Darkly, about a young woman's emotional crack - up, was being adapted for the London stage.

Screenwriter Anthony McCarten («The Theory of Everything»), director Joe Wright (who delivered a stunning single take of the beach at Dunkirk in «Atonement»), and Oldman (who has only been nominated once, for «Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy») turn what could have been a wordy chamber drama into something viscerally compelling and far more timely than anyone anticipated.

Stirred by the works of Anton Chekov, Eugene O'Neill, and Ingmar Bergman, September is one of Allen's most restrained chamber dramas, twisting and tying the varied threads within a developed single location.

Teinosuke Kinugasa's colorful (literally — not figuratively) chamber drama Gate of Hell (1953) took home a slew of awards from 1954 - 1955 from Cannes to the Oscars.

This technique turns the film's lengthy second act into a combination chamber drama and survival thriller, as dehydration, a vicious stray dog, and Jessie's vision of an unearthly «Moonlight Man» interrupt her dry verbal sparring with Gerald's misogynist mirage.

Not a horror film or thriller, nor exactly a ghost story, it is a deeply uncanny portrait of a home, most effective in its close attention to domestic spaces and its moments of intimate chamber drama.

Set against the heavenly hills of Sils Maria, Switzerland, this chamber drama traps an aging actress (Juliette Binoche), her raw and responsive assistant (Kristen Stewart), and an ingenue gunning for fame (Chloë Grace Moretz), as they swirl through each other's lives like a mist.

I confess to being a sucker for the kind of melodrama that writer - director Alan Hrsuka serves up in Reunion: a soap opera disguised as a serious chamber drama in the...

Married to the swooning, hypnotic camerawork that has been the hallmark of Park's collaboration with DP Chung Chung since Oldboy, it has about it the perversity of a Victorian chamber drama squeezed through the filter of a very Korean take on class and sex — attitudes partly shaped by living in the shadow of one of the two or three most unstable regimes in the world.

The last time Roman Polanski directed an adaptation of an acclaimed chamber drama, the result was the less than stellar

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) Year: 2017 Director: Noah Baumbach In maybe his most well - tuned chamber drama (let's use this phrase loosely) since Frances Ha, Noah Baumbach takes time to observe the ways in which his characters run, their ambulatory gifts (or lack thereof) representing both their struggles to express their innermost selves and the ways in which they can't escape the parents who must pass themselves — their failures, their quirks, their anger — to their offspring.

At its core, it's a chamber drama about obsession and self - possession, but the film nevertheless finds two young women making big decisions with weighty consequences.

Our hope that this would be a 90 minute chamber drama in which the characters trade bon mots and sip Dubonnet are duly dashed by this big, loud, business - as - usual trailer.

Sieranevada Directed by Cristi Puiu Romania, 2016, 173m Romanian with English subtitles U.S. Premiere A decade after jumpstarting the Romanian New Wave with The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, Cristi Puiu returns with a virtuosic chamber drama set largely within a labyrinthine Bucharest apartment where a cantankerous extended family has gathered forty days after its patriarch's death (and three days after the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris).

Allen never did collaborate with Bergman's muse Liv Ullmann, but a few of his actresses recreate her particular ethereal spell, including Rowlands and also Farrow, who suffers a nervous breakdown (a la pretty much any early Ullmann performance in a Bergman film) in 1987 chamber drama «September.»

Pablo Larraín's new feature is a psychologically complex response to the abuses of the Catholic Church, with a chamber drama, where four men and one woman embark on a spiritual journey of atonement.

A pot boiler of a chamber drama, Tarantino pushes the action and raises the tension through words for its first half and explosions of extreme violence for its second.

Both are arguably best understood as chamber dramas, and while

Ex Machina is essentially a chamber drama about the secrets held and the lies told by two men and a machine that might as well be human.

is essentially a chamber drama about the secrets held and the lies told by two men and a machine that might as well be human.

Though it's essentially an intimate one - act chamber drama, writer - director Sally Potter's The Party never seems like a filmed play.

Not exact matches

But whether or not you partook of the drama - filled echo chambers of online pregnancy boards or not, you still no doubt spent a lot of your time contemplating issues about your Future Baby and Future You that, you would find out later, was a completely misspent allocation of mental resources.

You see a lot more drama, back - room deals and blockades in the 150 - strong Belgian chamber than among the 600 members of the French Assemblée nationale or the German Bundestag.

Drama ensued on the floor of the red chamber on Wednesday as the motion for the payment of N5, 000 monthly allowance to unemployed youths in the country was opposed.

The City Council approved the mayor's affordable housing zoning proposals Tuesday, but not without drama, as some protesters got kicked out of the Council chamber.

Following an early burst of drama with the resignation of two members, the Senate reconvened Wednesday with a bipartisan show of support for the chamber's leader, who received a kidney transplant just 15 days ago.Senate President Pro Tem Martin Looney was...