Sentences with phrase «avoids sentimentality»

In the case of Inside Llewyn Davis, this consistent pull toward bad luck gives the film a rare sort of melancholy, one that avoids sentimentality and pity, as well as outright cynicism, to find a strange, unmistakable truth about the emotional bruises and physical suffering of life as a human or, even worse, an artist.

But it's to the credit of director Jason Reitman — who co-wrote the screenplay with Sheldon Turner based on the 2001 Walter Kirn novel — that the movie for the most part scrupulously avoids sentimentality.

But beyond its fascinating informational aspects, «Megan Leavey» is a powerfully emotional film that somehow — unbelievably, considering the subject matter — avoids sentimentality altogether.

By taking a sensitive, honest approach to this true story, breakthrough filmmaker Lewin both avoids sentimentality and keeps the focus on the inner lives of the central characters.

A vérité style narrative featuring professional and non-professional actors, and produced with a crew made up largely of women, Newman offers a new take on the sports film which wisely avoids sentimentality and melodrama.

And the most impressive thing is the way it avoids sentimentality at every turn, even when things...

In his usual austere style, Haneke avoids sentimentality and even outward displays of...

In his usual austere style, Haneke avoids sentimentality and even outward displays of emotion to present a carefully controlled, almost clinical picture of devoted caregiving, concentrating on Georges day - to - day support for his fading companion: Convincing her to take food and drink, helping her go to bed, to walk, go to the toilet and countless other mundane tasks.

It is necessary on the one hand to avoid sentimentality, and on the other sterility.

Energetic acting and filmmaking help this likable Argentine comedy - drama avoid the sentimentality that intermittently threatens it.

He influenced John Lees, who doesn't always avoid sentimentality as sharply and clearly as Brodie does.

Glaser: You seem to be after an economy of means, rather than trying to avoid sentimentality.

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Niebuhr held that Augustine's value for the Christian political thinker lay in the interpretation of human selfhood which enabled Augustine to «view the heights of human creativity and the depths of human destructiveness, which avoids the errors of moral sentimentality and cynicism, and their alternate corruptions of political systems of both secular and Christian thinkers.

(b) The Bible gives the authoritative content of the faith which provides substance for the small group experience, helping members avoid the «self - centeredness and sentimentality» of many prayer groups.

An attitude which avoids both sentimentality and cynicism must obviously be grounded in a Christian view of human nature which is schooled by the Gospel not to take the pretensions of men at their face value, on the one hand, and, on the other, not to deny the residual capacity for justice among even sinful men.14

The documentary style approach avoids soap opera style melodrama, unnecessary sub plots and sentimentality to show a truthful and unbiased picture of what happened that day and it's all the more powerful for it.

A deeply touching movie about loss, guilt and uprooting, it manages to address complex issues with elegance and subtlety, while avoiding the trap of sentimentality.

It's very hard to make a film about «underprivileged» individuals without resorting to clichés, stereotypes or mawkish sentimentality, and The Arbor deserves credit for steadfastly avoiding any of these.

Directing her first feature, screenwriter Caroline Thompson adopts a level - headed tone, avoiding the twin traps of sentimentality and sermonising.

Dunkirk's technical mastery is undeniable, but del Toro's Shape of Water infuses all that same care and precision with a lot of big, gooey feeling, a sentimentality that Dunkirk scrupulously avoids.

(The conclusion, in particular, feels artificial and tacked - on, guilty of the sort of mawkish sentimentality that Hitchcock avoids when he's not using it like a satiric weapon.)

There's a neat final twist up his sleeve — and by casting paraplegics, he avoids the easy sentimentality that subjects such as this often invite.

While the film's title screams warm nostalgia, Chan avoids channeling the familiar sentimentality that makes indies with similar themes too cloying, telling a more understated, refined story of a tense sibling rivalry and shared regret and reflection.

Position the conversation in a way that removes the sentimentality of the asset so that they do not feel obligated to say they want the cottage, just to avoid hurting the feelings of their parent.