Sentences with phrase «authentic characters who»

His best films — The Devil's Backbone (2001), Pan's Labyrinth (2006)-- have married narratives that feel intensely personal with authentic characters who resonate culturally.

Not exact matches

«But we also need it to be authentic, to have deaf actors who are playing deaf characters.»

Unlike our sketch and improv brethren who work to create funny characters and situations, today's stand - ups draw upon their own experiences and viewpoints to create material that is honest and authentic.

Now a transient place full of hipsters, bond traders, and actors, as well as actors and hipsters who are the children of bond traders, all searching for an «authentic» place to replace the Midwestern suburbs and rural towns they came to Brooklyn to escape, Brooklyn for me will always be Flatbush Avenue and Rudy Giuliani, Bernie (Goetz, not Madoff), and Ed Koch, block parties, radios murmuring Yankees games on back porches (all of us too poor to afford air conditioning, which kept us outside in that great urbanist semi-public space), the blackout of 1977 and the blizzard of 1995, Mickey Rivers and Bucky Dent, not to mention the wild cast of characters appearing in the Daily News, a paper that practically taught me to read.

By conforming so perfectly to the desire of plain people — people who, at any rate, are willing to live out the authentic character of their inevitable waiting — Christ provides the small mark of God's presence.

So Cristina, who is supposedly living an «authentic life» is really just another immature character in the story.

Chilean director Sebastian Lelio's recent string of films, Gloria and A Fantastic Woman, portray unique, intimate experiences of women characters who are disarmingly genuine and authentic.

And while Evans is dependably warm and supportive (as well as a refreshing representation of a man professing the need for men and boys to learn how to respect women and the art of submission), Robinson's film draws considerable strength from Hall and Heathcoate, who dance a sometimes - impossible duet of presenting characters with authentic romantic trajectories and maintaining a fount of chemistry to boot.

«The film has a completely authentic voice and the kinds of nuanced characters who are distinctive and truly memorable.

Mary Magdalene is billed as «an authentic and humanistic portrait» of the title character, a Jewish woman who according to the New Testament became a follower of Jesus and was present at his crucifixion and resurrection.

It was not enough for him to shadow motel managers, he wanted «to participate in [their] world,» and working with Baker — who fuses his filmmaking with authentic real - life locations, characters, and moments — allowed Dafoe to do that in a way he never had before in his career.

To me, (my character) Uncle Tito's an authentic person because I know who he is and where he comes from.

Directed by Derek Cianfrance, who also co-wrote the script, the film allows its characters to develop as authentic people by providing foundations upon which the actors can build highly convincing emotions.

But it is veteran character actress Laurie Metcalf who makes the biggest impression, her lived - in, fearlessly unsentimental performance breaking my heart in two with its authentic, lovingly multifaceted authority.

It's a great performance by Stiller and I love Greta Gerwig as well who I would describe as playing a more authentic version of Natalie Portman's similar character in Garden State.

«I wanted to make this film for my directorial debut because the story is full of humanity with characters I felt were very authentic,» noted Holmes, who previously directed a short on Nadia Comenici for ESPN.

- Publishers Weekly «Kogan has crafted a cast of characters who are relevant, authentic, and very human.

I used to know a writer whose book was set in ancient Egypt, and who'd researched authentic names, whose editor said told her that it'd be better if the characters had more familiar names, like Jonathan and Tony.

Volponi's novel of two best friends — one black, one white — who face the consequences of armed robbery shares Monster's Manhattan setting, authentic teen guy characters, and provocative questions about racism, justice, and versions of the truth.

As someone who clearly knows what she's talking about, we asked her how she manages to create such authentic and convincing young characters and voices.

The promo encompasses a voiceover from Jeff Goldblum's character Dr Ian Malcolm, who featured in Steven Spielberg's authentic 1993 film Jurassic Park and its sequel The Lost World, and...

Freud, who owned many authentic antiquities, acquired this reproduction because it depicts a fictional character — the sculpted woman who obsessed an archeologist in a 1903 novella by Wilhelm Jensen.