Sentences with phrase «when wonderstruck»

When Wonderstruck opens, it's easy to be tricked into believing you're watching a production logo.

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So when another regular collaborator, Todd Haynes, asked him to score the earnest and decidedly un-ironic «Wonderstruck,» Burwell wrote something that, «in terms of things like earnestness, just raw emotional sincerity, it is probably as far as I've gone,» he said, «because that's just not the genre that I'm typically asked to assay.

When Haynes is telling his story without words, you can see the wonder inherent in Wonderstruck.

While Wonderstruck is so very much more than this one incredible landmark metaphor, you understand what Selznick means when Ben, the boy from 1977, played by the very talented Oakes Fegley, opens the door in Port Authority Station to the blinding daylight of sketchy, un-Disneyfied Times Square.

Their children Regan and Marcus, played by Millicent Simmonds (Wonderstruck) and Noah Jupe (Suburbicon) respectively, have learned to interact with this new world, adapting to its challenges by using sign language, staging noisy booby - traps and establishing other means of visual communication like a red light - white light warning system to communicate when monsters are in the area.

Another outsider with a shot at a nomination is deaf actress Millicent Simmonds, who received praise for her performance in «Wonderstruck» when it premiered at Cannes, but has gotten less attention in the onslaught of the season's awards contenders opening at theaters.

Wonderstruck's narrative and thematic elements coalesce towards the end, when Ben and Rose's stories merge in revelations about his father's identity and his connection to a particular exhibit in New York's Museum of Natural History.

We see flashes of that same synthesis in Wonderstruck, when Haynes reveals the heartbeat behind all these beautiful pictures.

But as it burrows into the story minutiae, it loses focus — for all the period detail, Wonderstruck fails when it strives for simpler emotional truths.

But Wonderstruck is too concerned with the process of laying everything out; the film gets bogged down in the particulars of the plot when it could have easily engrossed me in its mood and atmosphere alone.

For there are surely few contemporary painters as romantic as himself: in an age when the medium is freighted with irony and anxiety and self - justifications, Doig's pictures are silent, wonderstruck, contemplative affairs which have prompted comparisons with the likes of Munch, Bonnard, Beckmann, Van Gogh and, yes, Gauguin.