Sentences with phrase «absurdist tale»

The absurdist tale of «The Misandrists,» about a lesbian separatist army cell threatened by the arrival of a lone male strains «The Beguiled» through a funnel of camp comedy, variably explicit sex and Godardian radical - politic sloganeering.

It is infused with much the same kind of twisted humor that can be found in some of their other absurdist tales, like The Big Lebowski, O Brother, and even Fargo and Raising Arizona.

Not exact matches

Anderson's 2001 film The Royal Tenenbaums cross-stitches familial ties with an absurdist P.O.V., knitting an oddball tale that swells with sadness and sincerity in kind.

Movie review of «Rams»: This tale of two Icelandic sheep farmers — brothers in their 60s who haven't spoken for 40 years — blends absurdist comedy with rural tragedy.

Rather, it's an absurdist, melancholy coming - of - age tale that jumps from odd comedy to striking violence to stirring reflection.

Instead, Maclean and company aimed higher: an absurdist send up of the genre, a coming of age cautionary tale, and a moralist adventure all in a simmering 83 minutes.

With Sorry to Bother You, the first - time filmmaker has taken the shopworn cautionary tale of the ambitious young professional who doesn't realize he's sold out until it's too late, and turned it into an absurdist sociopolitical satire that's by turns hilarious and horrifying.

Best defined by its sharp wit, absurdist violence and fairy tale qualities.»

Dystopian novels form a major category: Orwell's Animal Farm, William Golding's allegory The Lord of the Flies, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist comedy Slaughterhouse - Five, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, and McCarthy's The Road join Nineteen Eighty - Four here.

The influence of Marinetti, Italian editor and founder of the Futurist movement, is shared with Bas's appreciation for the absurdist theater of Alfred Jarry, specifically in the canvas Ubu Roi, in which Jarry's protagonist Ubu «leads a group of dancing followers through a scene reminiscent of Soviet Futurist stage design, flat cubist abstraction and the illustrated tales of Hans Christian Andersen.»

Nancy Davidson's Dustup offers a humorous, absurdist critique of the American cowgirl as a spectacle to admire, a tall tale fantasy of western legend.