Sentences with phrase «also poignant film»

Not exact matches

But the film's best scenes — including a haunting moment on the beach and a weirdly poignant encounter with a disfigured potential victim — also suggest a dawning moral awareness in the femme fatale.

Also, «It's the time of the season for loving» is a poignant lyric from The Zombies — «Time of the Season», which features in the film that assists the juxtaposition.

«We are thrilled to return to a country, place and festival that has always been so close to our hearts, not only because my first film, «Strictly Ballroom,» was screened there 21 years ago, but also because F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote some of the most poignant and beautiful passages of his extraordinary novel just a short distance away at a villa outside St. Raphael.»

It's a dizzyingly reflexive concept that could be too self - involved to really connect, but as our reviewer discovered, the fragmentary, impressionistic «Cameraperson» (often employing off - cuts of films she worked on) actually builds to «a surprisingly emotional and heartfelt film... Humanity permeates [the film], so as experimental as it is, it's also stirring and poignant, with a tangible sense of empathy intact in every frame...» [A]

The feature films nominated for Best Film this year are «Frank» which gives an insight into the weird and wonderful world of the enigmatic musician; the gritty urban family drama of «Glassland»; the raw, moving and honest «I Used to Live Here»; the feel good true - life story of «Noble»; the poignant and sensitive exploration of mental health in «Patrick's Day», and the beautiful Irish animated fantasy «Song of the Sea»; Three of the Best Films also get nominations for Best Director; Lenny Abrahamson for «Frank»; Gerard Barrett «Glassland» and Terry McMahon for «Patrick's Day», with John Carney also in that category for the musical drama «Begin Again».

You could take these earlier films, like the new one, as brilliant, unorthodox slide lectures, but they also work as poignant posthumous extensions of the friendships they recount and the careers they review.

«While it's a consistently entertaining and often poignant film which addresses a wide range of issues under the stealth cover of humour, I, Tonya also gives Robbie the chance — her first, really — to show her full range as an actress.

Other highlights from 2016 (and also must see films) have included the very informative and poignant documentary, «Maya Angelou and Still I Rise,» by Rita Coburn Whack and Bob Hercules; Mick Jackson's «Denial,» the gripping Holocaust denial tale with compelling performances from Rachel Weisz and Timothy Spall; Paul Verhoeven's «Elle,» with its great Isabelle Huppert performance; the remarkably thoughtful sci - fi film, «Arrival,» by Denis Villeneuve; Tom Ford's «Nocturnal Animals,» with its outstanding performances from Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Shannon; David Mackenzie's «Hell or High Water,» this summer's sleeper hit; Cristian Mungiu's «Graduation,» winner of the Best Director prize at Cannes; and Cristi Puiu's «Sieranevada,» winner of the top prize at this year's Chicago International Film Festival.

An endearing and diverting tale of friendship, creativity, and pursuing one's dreams, The Disaster Artist isn't just one of 2017's funniest films, it's also surprisingly one of the most poignant.

Fiercely affecting, the film is a poignant and thought provoking reminder of the artifice inherent in being forced to live one's life in public and also a reminder that there was a time that Jackie, one of the most famous women in the world, had to assume the role for the nation of grieving widow and do it with dignity, poise and grace while all the while having to struggle to privately deal with the violent dissolution of her own inner and outer reality.

Don't forget, the Golden Globes divide best film into two categories (drama and comedy / musical), so critical favourites (which also made the AFI list) such as the dark gem Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, the star - studded political thriller The Post and Greta Gerwig's poignant mother - daugther comedy - drama Lady Bird are also strong contenders.

This film is consistently hilarious but it's also very poignant too, I wasn't expecting this film to make me cry, but it did.