Sentences with phrase «bedroom farces»

He's in the wrong, though he has reason to be incredulous: He's in a Claire Denis movie, after all, and «tacky bedroom farce» is about as far from her highly refined repertoire as it's possible to get.

«Like in a tacky bedroom farce?»

(At one point the banker informs Isabelle that she's conducting herself like «a tacky bedroom farce.»)

A bedroom farce where everyone is cheating on everyone else, Potiche's genial satire of the bourgeoisie's discrete charm is enlivened by Deneuve and Depardieu, whose sympathetic chemistry has lit screens since the»80s.

Cholodenko takes full tonal advantage of this richly complicated set - up, veering from confrontational dramatics to frisky bedroom farce without ever pushing her characters into territory that feels ill - fitting or unreasoned.

Its score is a schizophrenic grab at Quentin Tarantino / Wes Anderson hipster DJ credibility (without the record collection or the budget to be anything but irritating), and its existence is owed the overlapping fallacies that the French aren't the only ones capable of bedroom farce and that French bedroom farces are that lofty a goal to aspire to in the first place.

Her platonic cheek - smooching and embarrassed looks would be fetching in a seventeenth - century bedroom farce but seem socially retarded in a contemporary rom - com.

by Walter Chaw Closer in spirit to Mystery, Alaska than to the similarly Olympics - inspired Cool Runnings, Men with Brooms is an underdog sports intrigue mashed together with a bedroom farce — and neither dog - eared formula is handled with very much originality, while uncomfortable subplots concerning adultery, alcoholism, and healing father / son rifts (see also Hoosiers) vie for a level of pathos that always feels out of place in what is essentially The Bad News Bears (or The Replacements, or Slap Shot) for curling.

Active involvement in political and public life means that young people will not be constantly dealing with bad - mouthed politicians and newspaper headlines denouncing the credibility of our Prime Ministers, being caught either with their hand in the till, or in some ridiculous bedroom farce.

Not exact matches

The Government's decision to delay the implementation date of the Home Information Pack (HIP) by two months, so that it should apply initially to four bedroom properties and above, is destroying credibility in the HIP which is close to becoming a farce.

With «The Kids Are All Right,» Lisa Cholodenko interestingly courted mainstream audiences, playing gender roulette with classic rom and bedroom - farce formats; the result was arguably her most well - rounded film, but still not as sensual or electric a study of lesbianism as her 1998 breakthrough «High Art.»

And the bedroom and ballroom farce continues as Guinevere helps Delysia juggle her complicated social schedule and discover the meaning of love.