Sentences with phrase «as chamber dramas»

Both are arguably best understood as chamber dramas, and while

Not exact matches

Drama ensued on the floor of the red chamber on Wednesday as the motion for the payment of N5, 000 monthly allowance to unemployed youths in the country was opposed.

The City Council approved the mayor's affordable housing zoning proposals Tuesday, but not without drama, as some protesters got kicked out of the Council chamber.

Those willing to enter The Club will discover an original and brilliantly acted chamber drama in which Larrain's fiercely political voice comes through as loud and clear as ever.

An unexpected knack for the chamber drama is revealed as a talent of Haneke's, whose films tended toward the expansive, existential, and sometimes deliberately esoteric.

Brilliantly structured as a contemporary chamber drama about loving your neighbours in the first part and, in the second, as a dreamy silent film re-imagining of their heretofore unknown histories, this is the rare critical darling that's as warm as it is intelligent.

Olivier Assayas is about as protean as today's great filmmakers come, but the last thing I expected from the mad genius behind the globe - trotting, gorgeously kinetic Boarding Gate is a Chekhovian chamber drama whose mantra could be essentially reduced to: posterity cares.

Half chamber drama, half dark dramedy of errors, director Miguel Arteta (The Good Girl, 2002 Sundance Film Festival) discerns his characters by showing their most telling reactions, such as the subliminal determination of Hayek's face, while spinning an indelible wickedness onto this tale of a fateful encounter.

Paul Thomas Anderson's 1950s London chamber drama was expected to receive at least three of those six, for Jonny Greenwood's score, Mark Bridges» costumes and Daniel Day - Lewis» lead performance as a petulantly exacting couturier named Reynolds Woodcock.

But those willing to enter «The Club» will discover an original and brilliantly acted chamber drama in which Larrain's fiercely political voice comes through as loud and clear as ever.

As befits its reclusive heroine, it's largely a claustrophobic chamber drama, and arguably Davies's most uncompromisingly austere film since The Long Day Closes (92).

The rest of This Is the End functions as a surprisingly basic chamber drama, with principal leads Rogen, Baruchel, and Franco barred inside the house with Jonah Hill and Craig Robinson as they hoard food supplies and fight over water and sleeping arrangements.

That's where you'll find curiosities such as best supporting performance votes for Ray Romano, who takes a surprisingly dramatic turn in «The Big Sick» as the father of a coma - stricken woman (Zoe Kazan), and support for Salma Hayek's turn in Miguel Arteta's politically - tinged chamber drama «Beatriz at Dinner.»

This technique turns the film's lengthy second act into a combination chamber drama and survival thriller, as dehydration, a vicious stray dog, and Jessie's vision of an unearthly «Moonlight Man» interrupt her dry verbal sparring with Gerald's misogynist mirage.

Set against the heavenly hills of Sils Maria, Switzerland, this chamber drama traps an aging actress (Juliette Binoche), her raw and responsive assistant (Kristen Stewart), and an ingenue gunning for fame (Chloë Grace Moretz), as they swirl through each other's lives like a mist.

I confess to being a sucker for the kind of melodrama that writer - director Alan Hrsuka serves up in Reunion: a soap opera disguised as a serious chamber drama in the...

These include Joe Wright's Darkest Hour, which portrays Winston Churchill scheming in darkened chambers during the same Battle of Dunkirk that Nolan depicts; Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which features a scorched - earth performance by Frances McDormand as a mother grappling with her daughter's murder; Phantom Thread, director Paul Thomas Anderson's largely unseen drama about a 1950s fashion designer played by Daniel Day - Lewis, in his final performance on screen; and The Post, which is directed by Steven Spielberg and stars Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep as Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee and publisher Kay Graham during the battle to print the Pentagon Papers.

Our hope that this would be a 90 minute chamber drama in which the characters trade bon mots and sip Dubonnet are duly dashed by this big, loud, business - as - usual trailer.

Ex Machina is essentially a chamber drama about the secrets held and the lies told by two men and a machine that might as well be human.

is essentially a chamber drama about the secrets held and the lies told by two men and a machine that might as well be human.