Sentences with phrase «between farce»

Conlon captures the herky - jerky nature of a policeman's daily routine as it swings between farce and tragedy, all the while detailing the way cops talk, joke, and stress.

It's a mazy, unexpected trajectory which zig - zags between farce and seriousness in a way that never quite feels fully controlled.

Niall Heery's film treads a fine line between farce and pathos, looks very nice and is full of fine acting.

Not exact matches

If we can regroup after the international break with Mustafi, Welbeck and Ospina back in contention for first team places and our winning streak at the Emirates we'll close the gap between top to what it was before this farce of a match ever happened.

To me, I think, what it does, it highlights just what a farce it is to have these owners interpose between the public and the teams.

There is no credible science that can, without descending into farce, establish equivalences between different job roles in different settings.

This energetic, anarchic and droll — it's full of great one - liners, especially from Alan («It's not illegal, it's frowned upon, like... masturbating on an airplane»)-- Vegas farce benefits from a convincing chemistry between the four men.

A climactic encounter in a swimming pool, underscored by «Total Eclipse of the Heart,» provides arguably the film's most iconic kill, while an exceptional, near - wordless scene between Henderson and the Man in the Mask dances delightfully along the border between dread and farce.

Tom Vaughans farce is a tonal misfire, its soft - focus satire marooned between outdated, offensive British bawdiness and banal Californian self - help platitudes.

Fujimoto's shadowy visual sensibility was a unifying factor, and without it, «Ricki And The Flash» — which was shot by Declan Quinn, Demme's go - to cinematographer in recent years — swings wildly between different conventional camera styles, turning into a small - club concert doc for The Flash's regular gigs at The Salt Well or into stagey, locked - down farce during the restaurant scene that introduces Ricki and Pete's sons, Joshua (Sebastian Stan) and Adam (Nick Westrate).

Yet another ensemble comedy / drama from director Garry Marshall that is based around a holiday, Mother's Day alternates between broadly obvious farce and overly sappy melodrama with lumbering sloppiness.

The rapport between Parham and St. Clair has been well developed over a decade - plus of working together, and even though the stories in «Playing House» rely on fairly typical domestic farce, the quality of the dialogue and performances makes even the weaker episodes a treat.

Hytner's adaptation is a modest farce generally concerned with the struggle between two main characters as one fights for their right to be and the other fights for their right to be in peace.

Pin - balling between tragedy and farce so fast that it can be hard to follow, «Norman» unfolds like a Coen brothers comedy that has too much chutzpah and not enough charm.

Alas, Binder tries to tread the line between philosophy and farce, satire and slapstick, and with so many contrasting story devices, the imbalance of mood finally does the film in as a potentially intelligent piece of entertainment.

Perhaps if Mazursky could decide between satire, farce, or romantic comedy, things wouldn't prove as uneven as they do.

The timing playfully alternates between expansive and manic, just as the comedy lurches from dumb puns to cinematic in - jokes to broad farce.

It alternates awkwardly between shrill, borderline misogynistic sex farce and desperately gory, pun - rife creature feature.

The films he made between these animated efforts — Moonrise Kingdom (2012) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)-- were among his better works, as the former evinced a real sense of poignant feeling that sometimes gets lost in his penchant for irony and pastiche, while the latter was a marvelous screwball farce with a fantastic central performance by Ralph Fiennes.

If you re-read the final scenes between Winston Smith and Julia from Nineteen Eighty - Four and then watch this scene, you can have your own version of Marx's dictum about history as tragedy, then farce.

Another burgeoning romance between Madame Emilie (Frances de la Tour) and Monsieur Frick (Richard Griffiths) is repeatedly stopped in its tracks by her dog, and the two ancillary love stories offer bits of whimsical farce and screenwriter John Logan (adapting Brian Selznick's novel) the chance to flesh out the sense of kinship among the station's denizens.

[6] In this respect, Sullivan continually moves between the extremes of theater's original excesses, tragedy and farce, the orgiastic ritual and comedic feast, Aeschylus and Aristophanes.