Sentences with phrase «as intimate a character study»

It's as intimate a character study as you'll find, with Zhao reclaiming tried - and - true Western iconography in the name of her indigenous characters and Jandreau recreating scenes lifted partially from his own experiences.

Not exact matches

Films such as The Insider, Ali, and Public Enemies are intimate character studies even if the subject matter of each is expansive.

However, it couldn't have been a better fit for a festival founded in 1976, as it played like the kind of intimate,»70s - esque character study that Hollywood rarely makes anymore.

The beauty of this character study lies in intimate particularities: those of its internally riven, love - starved protagonist, Chiron, certainly, but also those of Jenkins's own tender, sensual gaze, coloured by such plainly cherished influences as Wong Kar - wai and Claire Denis.

Haneke's work to date has not only confronted audiences with intimate and uncomfortable character studies, but with questions as to how they watch, consume, and engage with entertainment.

Milk, directed by Gus Van Sant, is as much an historical account of the rise and sudden fall of a beloved cult hero as it is an intimate character study of a vulnerable, complicated soul.

Jim Jarmusch «s «Paterson,» and its star Adam Driver, deserve awards attention as well, though Jarmusch's intimate character study is so quiet and subtle that it may well get lost in the shuffle.

Not his most flashy picture, Davies structures the film as more or less a wordy, profoundly intimate character study that plays on subtlety in ways few directors truly can.

The brilliance of Lawrence of Arabia is that it looks like an epic with all the big sets and sweeping music and widescreen vistas, but at its center is an enigmatic character study of a man who lives bigger - than - life, but is as personally conflicted as any intimate drama has ever portrayed.

Knight is responsible for having scripted such well - received drama / thriller fare as Dirty Pretty Things and Eastern Promises, in addition to biographical dramas (Amazing Grace, Pawn Sacrifice) and intimate character studies alike (Locke).