Sentences with phrase «act of a wrenching»

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After the far right wing of the GOP out - rebelled the notoriously rebellious president, foiling his effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Trump now faces a wrenching choice as he tries to rule the fractious GOP: retrenchment or realignment.

45 minutes of outrageous situation comedy with hilarious consequences, 45 minutes of gut wrenching and heart felt emotional drama, 45 minutes of impeccable acting from its two leads, who's on - screen chemistry (excuse the pun) has garnered them with a total of 4 Emmy's, and 45 minutes (im about to come back full circle here) of impossible to predict story lines that make the twists and turns in shows like Lost and Fringe genuinely feel like amateur hour.

This may not be the cheeriest movie of the season, but it's so skilfully written, directed and acted that it's impossible not to be pulled into its powerfully wrenching drama.

And the stripped - down acting style echoes the way Mitchell approaches the material, dwelling on the plodding ordinariness of the situation by using sharp comedy, sudden emotional responses and wrenching anguish.

Guest director Joshua Oppenheimer, whose wrenching «The Act of Killing» debuted at TFF in 2012, has put together an eclectic program that includes Werner Herzog's 1970 «Even Dwarfs Started Small» (with Herzog in attendance), Jon Bang Carlsen's intriguing and obscure «Hotel of the Stars» (1981), an hour - long Danish documentary about extras who live in a shabby apartment hotel in Hollywood; the only movie directed by Charles Laughton, 1955's exquisitely - shot «The Night of the Hunter,» starring a brilliant, terrifying Robert Mitchum, and fortuitously playing in his centenary year; «Salam Cinema,» Mohsen Makmalbaf's 1995 record of auditions by aspiring actors; a new print of Frederick Wiseman's long - banned, corrosive «Titicut Follies» (1967), filmed in a notorious Massachusetts hospital for the criminally insane; and Jacques Demy's glorious, gorgeous musical, «The Umbrellas of Cherbourg» (1967), starring the glorious, gorgeous Catherine Deneuve.

The fear I had going into Stronger, the film about Bauman's recovery starring Jake Gyllenhaal, was that it would cram this genuinely wrenching material into the Hollywood «based on a true story» formula, resulting in a three - act movie of tragedy, love, and stirring achievement that exists primarily as a showcase for an Oscar campaign.

BPM, which draws on filmmaker Robin Campillo's own years as an activist, is a sprawling drama centered by the emotionally wrenching performance of newcomer Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, playing an ACT UP organizer in Paris.

Fine acting, stunning photography, and music by Alexandre Desplat support the heart - wrenching emotion at the heart of this skillfully - told medical drama about organ donation.

Shot with wonderful attention to detail, from the hands of the watch to the weight of a wrench, Glory is atmospheric and well acted and an awful sense of horrible inevitability leads to a surprising ending.

The emotionally wrenching tale of three brothers and the brutal act that irrevocably changes their lives.

With heart - wrenching power and suspense, Hosseini shows how a woman's love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self - sacrifice, and that in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival.

Dom's heart - wrenching confusion, grief and final act of mercy are heavy going, but the raw emotion hammers home Dom's love for his wife and is a surprisingly moving story beat in a series that is mostly about making things explode and yelling about giant worms.

The soundtrack is great, the voice acting is superb and the thunder of gunfire, roaring battle cries and gut - wrenching death knells all echo throughout the battlefield, emoting for all that in the 41st Millennium, there is indeed, only war.

Traveling with Yuna as one of her guardians, along with a unique cast brought to life through their character designs and voice acting, Tidus brought the player along on a heart wrenching and deep adventure.

With both Okumura and Takahashi putting themsleves in a vulnerable balancing act, this exhibition and its nesting - doll effect of mixed identities and mythical invocations cast an always welcome wrench into the sanctities of art history.

Love can bring out powerful forces in us such as intense hatred, extreme jealousy, and gut wrenching fears of abandonment that can make us act in seemingly irrational ways.