Sentences with phrase «beautiful novel of»

Heartwarming and uplifting, Silver Linings is a beautiful novel of letting go of the past and embracing the unexpected.

The film owes a debt to the immaculate prose of Patricia Highsmith's 1952 source novel — not to mention her social daring in writing a sophisticated and beautiful novel of love between two women at a time when that love was defined legally and morally as «obscene».

Based on André Aciman's beautiful novel of the same name, the film illustrates a narrative of grueling desire and devastating passion.

One Community One Book - The «One Community One Book» selection for May 2018 is Ernest Hemingway's moving and beautiful novel of love and war in World War I Italy.

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Based on Marjane Satrapi's auto - graphic - novel, Persepolis is the simple and bracingly beautiful tale of Marjane growing up in 1970s Iran, where her curiosity, imagination and love of Western pop - culture trash gets her in trouble with the police state imposed after the revolution.

What the reader, or at least this reader, retains of the novel is not a pattern of Christian belief but descriptions of the three kinds of rational creatures who inhabit the planet and of the fantastic shapes and smells and pastel colors of the beautiful land.

A member of African society has a moral responsibility in regards to past generations to venerate the ancestors; a moral responsibility in regards to the present generation to consider the well - being of his / her contemporaries throughout the community; and a moral responsibility in regards to future generations to create conditions which serve the well - being of those who are called «the beautiful ones» by Ayi Kwei Armah in his classical novel — The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born.

This is very beautiful, but the Epilogue to the novel, set seven years after the conclusion of the main narrative, reveals an interesting complication.

More a beautiful character study than a plot - driven novel, Shine On is worth reading simply for hours spent with Colwin's exquisite descriptions of the physical and emotional world.

The iconic literary Tess is the beautiful heroine of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, the moral center of the novel.

The film is based on one of Thomas Hardy's warmest novels, focusing on the beautiful Bathsheba Everdene and her blossoming love stories with three suitors — but what is often overlooked are her idyllic surroundings.

For me Planet Books is the best bookstore I know, I have bought shelves of very heavy but beautiful art, fashion, design and photography books, as well as most recently a host of David Sedaris novels.

And after I spent almost 2 hours watching this movie, I must gave a big two thumbs up to Ang Lee for making a beautiful visualization of this novel..

Tom ends up marrying on of his beautiful students (Rosemary Forsythe) in this story from the Peter DeVries novel «Let Me Count The Ways.»

«Annihilation,» starring Natalie Portman, is a hypnotically beautiful and unsettling adaptation of the first novel in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy.

Mira Nair's film version of the classic novel by William Makepeace Thackery introduces a new audience to the beautiful, funny, passionate and calculating heroine Becky Sharp (Witherspoon).

We visit the set of the supernatural drama, «Beautiful Creatures,» to preview this stylish adaptation of the best - selling first novel in the «Beautiful» series.

These were a series of historical novels taking place during the time of the Napoleonic wars, following the exploits of Captain Jack Aubrey (Crowe, A Beautiful Mind) and his friend and companion, Stephen Maturin (Bettany, A Knight's Tale), surgeon and insatiable scientist.

March 7, 2018 • Director Ava DuVernay's adaptation of the classic novel is devoid of cynicism, full of beautiful images and deeply moving.

And that really began with reading The Price of Salt, Patricia Highsmith's beautiful novel, and the gorgeous adaptation of Phyllis's script that first came to me with Cate attached.

t seems like every movie that's based on a young adult novel about a supernatural romance is destined to be lazily compared to the «Twilight» series (and there are plenty more to come this year), but in the case of «Beautiful Creatures,» the comparisons are totally valid.

It's based on the famous scifi novel of the same name by Jeff VanderMeer and though it's not expected to hit theaters until next year, a few behind - the - scenes photos show the movie is going to be seriously beautiful.

Based on a novel by «Richard Stark» (aka Donald Westlake), the movie is steeped in its Los Angeles locale: a deadly city of noir that's also a surprisingly beautiful sunlit - vision of LA circa 1967.

Adapted from the bestselling novel by Norwegian author Jo Nesbo, this now BAFTA Award nominated film directed by Morten Tyldum concerns Roger Brown (Aksel Hennie), a corporate CEO headhunter living a life of luxury with his beautiful wife Diana (Synnove Macody Lund).

From acclaimed director Derek Cianfrance, (BLUE VALENTINE, A PLACE BEYOND THE PINES), and based on the extraordinary best - selling novel from M.L Stedman, THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS, is a beautiful yet heart - breaking story of love and sacrifice.

«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.»

On the fortress wall there are signs declaring this adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel «The Price of Salt» an important love story, a shattering and beautiful experience, featuring Oscar - worthy performances from Blanchett and Rooney Mara, etc..

While many are saying YA novels are failures — past failures this year include adaptations of «Beautiful Creatures» and «The Mortal Instruments» (which is getting a sequel anyway)-- «The Hunger Games» is a financial juggernaut.

In the novel, Bathsheba is described as being so beautiful that it's almost a kind of curse, which drives sane men wild and plunges her into a maelstrom of conflicting passions.

Among the contenders are Ethan (Alden Ehrenreich) and Lena (Alice Englert) of Beautiful Creatures, Richard LaGravenese «s adaptation of Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl «s bestselling novel.

Deservedly winner of the Best Director gong at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Nicholas Winding Refn makes Los Angeles look as beautiful as it's ever been without using any tourist traps, and the adaptation from the James Sallis novel by Hossein Amini (who also adapted the dark Jude and The Wings of a Dove) is beautifully done, even if some of the music (largely an effective ambient / electro score) is a little on - the - nose.

«In The Bedroom» and «Little Children» helmer Todd Field is involved, presumably as a writer / director, though we hope he shoots his adaptation of Jess Walter «s brilliant novel «Beautiful Ruins,» set to star Imogen Poots, first.

March 9, 2018 • Director Ava DuVernay's adaptation of the classic Madeleine L'Engle novel is devoid of cynicism, filled with beautiful images and deeply moving.

Call Me by Your Name, based on the beautiful André Aciman novel of the same name, has been praised by critics ever since its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival back in January.

The River — Jean Renoir's beautiful adaptation of a Rumer Godden (Black Narcissus) novel (she wrote the screenplay as well) about a British colonial family in India is lushly romantic while managing to, for the most part, avoid the pitfalls of imperialism that drag down The Darjeeling Limited.

Based on a graphic novel and short film by co-directors Pedro Rivero and Alberto Vázquez, Birdboy: The Forgotten Children is a darkly comic, beautiful and haunting tale of coming of age in a world gone to ruin.

Beautiful to look at, well written by Christopher Hampton and based on the popular novel by Ian McEwan, and extremely well - acted by a superb cast — especially the two leads — Knightley and McAvoy — this film remains not only a haunting story of tragic love but of the terrible consequences of jealousy and regret.

First up, a press release from Alcon Entertainment reveals that they've found the leads for their hopeful «Twilight» competition, «Beautiful Creatures,» an adaptation of the novels by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, which is being written and directed by Richard LaGravanese («P.S. I Love You «-RRB-.

Lee says it was the language of Woodrell's novel that first attracted him: «It's a beautiful book, beautifully written.

The year lacked a single towering masterpiece, but this John Crowley film, based on the Colm Toibin novel, was a little treasure, with beautiful, invested performances and an air of enchantment.

After directing film versions of two novels, Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility (1995) and Rick Moody's The Ice Storm (1997), Taiwanese - born Lee and his producer - screenwriter James Schamus made a beautiful film from another novel, Daniel Woodrell's Woe to Live On, first published in 1987 (a very valuable first edition these days!)

Sofia Coppola's latest meditation on privileged femininity is an adaptation of Thomas Cullinan's novel of the same title, and it's a beautiful idea of a terrible time, stirringly acted and flawlessly shot.

Sebastian Lelio's sensitive, multifaceted adaptation of Naomi Alderman's novel is a beautiful exploration of the restrictive nature of traditional communities, anchored by a trio of -LSB-...] The...... Read more «New from Clint Worthington and Alcohollywood: Disobedience Review: A Mesmerizing Tale of Religion and Forbidden Love»

It's no surprise that Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger, writers and executive producers of NBC's emotionally charged drama This Is Us have done such a remarkable job at translating Becky Albertalli's beautiful novel, Simon vs the homo sapiens agenda for the screen.

Director Luca Guadagnino's adaptation of André Aciman's novel of a teen's memorable first romance is as languid and as steamy as the Italian summer in which it's set — and as beautiful as its breakout star, Timothée Chalamet.

Danish director Thomas Vinterberg's genteel adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic 19th century novel is beautiful to look at — filmed in bucolic Dorset, Somerset and Oxfordshire by cinematographer Charlotte Bruus Christensen.

From Phyllis Nagy's script (adapting the 1952 novel The Price of Salt) through the loving cinematography from Edward Lachman (not as flashy as the Mad Max: Fury Roads and Sicarios of the world, but no less impactful), from the shrewd editing of Affonso Goncalves to Carter Burwell's understated yet foundational score and Sandy Powell's beautiful costuming, Haynes has put together a professional crew that sets the tone with aplomb.

In Todd Haynes» unspeakably beautiful adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's semi-autobiographical novel about a 1950s Manhattan shopgirl (Rooney Mara) who is thunderstruck by a mutual infatuation with a well - to - do housewife (Cate Blanchett), the film illustrates — among other things — how falling in love is an act of looking, while being in love is an act of seeing.

Yet despite its obvious pedigree, it is all of itself, infused with the spirit of the now, suffused with author Ron Hansen's transcendental prettiness (the film is based on his novel), and, as framed by DP Roger Deakins's painterly eye, overwhelmingly beautiful.

Based on the young adult novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Creatures is a story of a young man named Ethan (Alden Ehrenreich) who falls for the «different» new girl in school, Lena (Alice Englert).