Sentences with phrase «allegorical tale of»

The brilliant Ettore Scola is to be credited for his feminist critique of women under fascism, his modern understated treatment of homosexuality, and his successful examination of fascist politics — through the lens of a seemingly simple, human story that turns into an allegorical tale of immense significance.

The simple love story set on a pastoral landscape becomes a profound allegorical tale of harmony and discontinuity, love and hate, hopes and fears, and good and evil.

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The keepers of those myths that you probably have the most issue with, somewhat successfully changed the meaning of the word myth to the word lie... to make their own myths (which they called parables and which were presented more in allegorical than historical form), to in their minds be perceived more as truth... and in God's own poetic justice, now have their cherished tales of perceived morality thrown into the same category by those who make the same efforts at understnding the meanings.

Spanning his nation's history through a series of heavily allegorical tales, Gomes's epic does nothing less than capture the soul of a battered but brilliant country.

On the surface, Anton Corbijn's film is a pared down tale of a professional gunsmith - for - hire adrift in Europe, but in Joseph Natoli's allegorical reading the film also has its finger on the pulse of a conflicted and disorientated nation.

Religion and politics get a scathing scrutiny in a Man vs. State tale, told through allegorical fashion of the biblical Job story.

The Shape of Water, a tale of a mute woman (Sally Hawkins) who falls in love with an amphibious being trapped in a government lab, has been praised for its allegorical import by critics and is positioned as a potential frontrunner at the upcoming Oscars.

Douro, Faina Fluvial was followed by more documentary shorts, from 1932 to 1941, until he made his feature debut with the aforementioned Aniki - Bóbó in 1942, an allegorical tale shot in a spare, direct manner, with a cast composed for the most part of children.

Telling the story of a boy's search for his missing dog, this allegorical tale revisits the stop - motion techniques that made Fantastic Mr. Fox such a huge success.

Written in 1973 and 1974 and inspired by the classic opera «Tales of Hoffman» by Jacques Offenbach, Barbara is one of Tezuka's most psychological and personal manga, an allegorical look at the difficult choices and torturous doubts every artist must face.

For the first nine years of his career, he focused on the creation of an epic, allegorical tale, shaped, in part, by the Biblical stories with which he grew up.

Another crucial text in Taoism is the «Chuang Tzu», an often funny collection of allegorical tales and poetry.