Sentences with phrase «mexican auteurs»

If you think it's high time that Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro joined fellow Mexican auteurs Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity) and Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman, The Revenant) in the Oscar winners circle, The Shape of Water just may be the movie to do it.

Genre thrills of a much tamer, more virtuosic variety arrived in the form of Gravity (Grade: B --RRB-, which proves what the Mexican auteur Alfonso Cuarón can do with an enormous budget — and also that he may need a better writing partner than his son, Jonás.

Meanwhile, Mexican auteur Amat Escalante's The Untamed was also cited as not complete in time for Cannes, so there's a likelihood one of these will show up in Venice.

Mexican auteur Carlos Reygadas picked up the coveted best director award for Post Tenebras Lux, an experimental drama about a couple on a high - end sex holiday, whose children experience strange dreams.

But it's The Shape Of Water that may well prove to be his masterpiece, with the Mexican auteur crafting a magnificently twisted tale that is somewhere in between Beauty And The Beast and The Creature From The Black Lagoon.

His last, 2013's Pacific Rim, offered blockbusting robots vs. monsters thrills, but only after the Mexican auteur had stumbled around Hobbiton for two years before exiting without a movie to show for it — small wonder he then almost lost his marbles At The Mountains Of Madness, a project that's still in limbo.