Sentences with phrase «age tale which»

The support cast also acquits itself quite admirably, the upshot amounting to a poignant coming - of - age tale which resonates as realistic from its heartbreaking beginning clear through to a satisfying resolution.

Not exact matches

It is a hamfisted cautionary tale about global warming (which, via the film's scientific hand - waving, produces an ice age), but it also functions as a powerful 9/11 allegory, celebrating the ability of New Yorkers to unify in the face of tragedy.

This was done because Jefferson believed that some Christian teachings were correct, however, being a man of reason, he rejected the supernatural portions which were pure iron age fairy tale.

Which brings me to my point: Why would any intelligent person take tales from the bronze age (or read out of a hat for that matter) for real?

Thirty is the age after which one should never be trusted, or so it was said during the era when this tale begins.

This old wives» tale has now been negated by research [v], which has shown that the main factors that contribute to breast ptosis are: age, history of significant (> 50 lb) weight loss, higher body mass index, larger bra cup size, number of pregnancies and smoking history.

They really are wiser, clever and also older than the normal ladies you meet therefore ensure that you share tales which is appropriate with their age.

In The Silmarillion there is a section called «Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age» and in Unfinished Tales «The Hunt for the Ring», which seems to deal with the elements they might be exploring.

Toni's no wandering naif in a fairy tale: She's an eager recruit, which means «The Fits» has more in common with boot camp dramas than most coming - of - age flicks.

The Dardenne brothers feature debut is a stunning achievement, an emotionally powerful coming of age tale, which shows that humanism can prevail in the harshest economic conditions.

At the film festival: Bruce LaBruce's subversive masterpiece, Gerontophilia, a lovely rom - com in which everybody fucks one another across all age and gender borders — desire shall bind us together; Juno Mak's Rigor Mortis, a touching albeit grim look at loss and damnation in the form of a Chinese hopping - vampire movie, with many a nod to the subgenre's clichés and conventions; Jealousy, Philippe Garrel's latest tale of love ground down by the mill of daily life, raw and naked even by his ascetic standards; Hayao Miyazaki's troublesome The Wind Rises, which frames the story of a fighter - plane designer as a grand romance of struggle and failure, with animation's supreme living master contemplating the price mankind can sometimes pay in the name of one dreamer's self - fulfillment, and the willful blindness and egocentricity it takes to realize one's vision; and finally to Yorgos Lanthimos's Necktie and Athina Rachel Tsangari's 24 Frames Per Century, their contributions to the Venice 70: Future Reloaded omnibus, not to mention the untitled pieces by Jean - Marie Straub, Monte Hellman, Amit Dutta, and Haile Gerima.

It is framed as a coming - of - age tale, in which case Grint's character feels like a younger, British version of a different Ben, The Graduate's Benjamin Braddock.

But it's also a coming - of - age tale that centers on her son Harrison Gilbertson who begins to date the sheriff's daughter (Roberts) which begins to affect his state senate bid.

While no information was divulged on the budget size for this rom sci - fi (which sounds like a nerdy cautionary tale for the tinder age a la I Origins), we're fairly certain that if Doremus has had time to insert any sci - fi special effects, it could land an acquisitions friendly slot.

The coming - of - age tale «Call Me By Your Name,» which topped the Gotham Awards on Monday, remained in very limited release — four theaters — and pulled in an excellent per - screen average of $ 67,000.

And while that doesn't really match with Murray's age, a) it's a movie, b) Wes Anderson's time periods have always been fluid (see the fairy tale New York in «The Royal Tenenbaums» which is set in «modern times,» but feels more like the 1970s).

Tying for second place (with five nominations apiece) were two definite dramas: Boyhood, Richard Linklater's coming - of - age tale filmed over 12 years, and The Imitation Game, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Bletchley Park codebreaker Alan Turing.

Rounding out my loose triptych of female - focused coming - of - age tales was Park Chan - wook's highly anticipated English language debut, Stoker, which was presented in precisely the fanciful, generously indulgent fashion that has become the norm for him.

Thus far the cast announced is a bunch of pretty new young faces — which misses the point as it is a tale of embittered middle - aged superheroes.

A coming - of - age teen friendship tale set against the backdrop of Cold War nuclear anxiety and the burgeoning sexual revolution in mid -»60s London, «Ginger & Rosa» tackles the idea of bonds shattered by ideological differences and examines the sobering cost of the newfound intellectualism, which often came at the expense of proper nurturing and guidance.

The coming - of - age tale, the on - the - run road movie, the buddy comedy, the boy's adventure story — all genres that require a steady hand and a singular sensibility, and all of which you'll find in Taika Waititi's goofy, giddy mash - up about two fugitives fleeing authorities in the New Zealand bush.

It's a singular style Anderson typically applies to subjects heftier than Moonrise Kingdom, which is little more than a sweet tale of preteen love in 1965, a more innocent age.

If you see one movie this weekend, it should be «Boyhood,» Richard Linklater's 12 - years - in - the - making coming - of - age tale, which has no precedent in film history.

The film premiered at Cannes to a warm reception thanks to its charactorially complex and mysterious tale of an aging actress and her personal assistant which coaxed a pair of stunning performances out of Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart in the leading roles.

A deceptively simple tale of the doomed love affair between an ageing cleaner (Mira) and a young Moroccan gastarbeiter (immigrant worker) which exposes the racial prejudice and moral hypocrisy at the heart of modern West German society.

Set in Gillan's own hometown of Inverness, the film uses the tragic history of the Scottish Highlands (which has the highest suicide rate in the U.K.) to spin out an intimate coming of age tale, bolstered by Gillan's dark sense of humor and a firm understanding of how to play with narrative conventions.

The story of the kids is good enough that the film works as a twisted variation on a coming - of - age tale, in which the fears and traumas of real life are juxtaposed with the fantastical terrors that have plagued this town since its founding.

In this pack are reading ideas for all ages: adventures, folk tales, stories in translation and non-fiction titles, which take you around the world introducing you to people and places, and their lives and experiences.

Viz will provide a number of titles, including Cross Game, a baseball / coming of age story; Dawn of the Arcana, a fantasy romance about a princess forced to marry the prince of a rival nation; Kekkaishi, a good - natured battle manga (Shaenon Garrity wrote the best article ever about Kekkaishi); Maoh: Juvenile Remix, Natsume Ono's indy - ish not simple, Sand Chronicles, and the thoughtful sci - fi tale Saturn Apartments, which is my favorite manga of all time.

«Ebony The Beloved, a title coming out in June, is a coming - of - age tale, which can be a really overdone topic, but this one hits you from page one.

We're in the age of games - as - art, which means many gamers feel the need to be immersed in a quasi-cinematic tale to feel...

In the majority, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote that the government can't regulate depictions of violence, which he said were age - old, anyway: «Grimm's Fairy Tales, for example, are grim indeed.»

In the end it will be a political fight for reason and science; a fight we must win or descend to a intellectual Dark Age in which our descendants might tell will tales of days in the past men who once walked on the moon, as they cower in caves.

The climate changes being visited on the Arctic are indeed tragic, but the loss is large, abstract, and difficult to grasp — one reason that the sad tale of the loss of Franklin and his 128 men has resonated through the ages, up to a point where the very forces which imprisoned them have now turned, topsy - turvy, to threaten us all not with a superabundance of ice, but its disappearance.