Sentences with phrase «less of a love triangle»

Not exact matches

Despite good performances, this attempt to intertwine a crime thriller with a love triangle never gels... Fans of Ulee's Gold, Ruby in Paradise, and A Flash of Green are likely to feel disappointed by this decidedly lesser effort.

Set in WWI Russia by way of claustrophobic sets transformed into Maddin's dreamland imagery, this story of a one - legged soldier (Maddin regular Kyle McCulloch) caught in a romantic triangle between his lovesick landlady and a married nurse (Kathy Marykuca) who resembles his dead lover is less a parody of silent cinema than a loving crackpot tribute.

That's a shame, since they prove to be a less - than - scintillating love triangle: Harris and Redgrave can't particularly hold a tune (at least Nero was dubbed by a professional singer, an uncredited Gene Merlino), and Joshua Logan's heavy - handed direction insures that the intensity of the romances gets muted at every turn.

In a lesser film, this bizarre love triangle might stumble out of the gate, but the actors and screenwriters (Shane Salerno, Don Winslow, and Stone) totally commit to it.

You can see it in Steven Soderbergh's experimental «Bubble» from 2006, a love triangle set in a small - town doll factory featuring non-actors, and in Zhang Yimou's 2000 drama «Not One Less,» about the struggles of schoolchildren in a rural Chinese village played by... schoolchildren in a rural Chinese village.

Even though Eclipse was a major miss for me, so far the films have made the love triangle much less of a farce than it was in the books (did anyone ever doubt she'd choose Edward?).