Sentences with phrase «almost archetypal story»

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It is a cyclical film (beginning and ending with the founding of a town) with archetypal characters (father / son aggressions, mother / daughter deceptions), and it is told like Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge, through image and an almost instinctual understanding of the stories inherently related by a time and a place.

Showing the film's canny admixture of a very modern, almost experimental sensibility with a sense of classicism in the period, location and fidelity to the text, the trailer gives a great impression of the enormous strength and boldness of Kurzel's fresh imagining of this archetypal, elemental story.

In Mercies in Disguise, acclaimed New York Times science reporter and bestselling author Gina Kolata tells the story of the Baxleys, an almost archetypal family in a small town in South Carolina.