Sentences with phrase «between pathos»

Often claustrophobic and oppressive, his painting achieves a careful balance between pathos and aggression.

Often claustrophobic and oppressive, his paintings achieve a careful balance between pathos and aggression.

Often claustrophobic and oppressive, Aboudia's painting achieves a careful balance between pathos and aggression.

In this space, between pathos and irony, between fake and real, the Silver Surfer and Jesus Christ, the bodily event of death is endured — this death that we live.

Serkis directs with confidence and a nostalgic feel for old fashion Hollywood, finding a perfect balance between pathos and humour.

Not exact matches

In Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig reveals herself to be a bold new cinematic voice with her directorial debut, excavating both the humor and pathos in the turbulent bond between a mother and her teenage daughter.

Mr. Burger has a performer who can dart between stentorian self - assurance and cringing pathos, maintaining his character's ambiguity until the final sequence of this resourceful and ingenious entertainment.

This family drama is balanced between equal measures of dark humor and pathos so that Red Doors floats gently between sentimentality and cynicism.

Complete, in a rather contrived fashion, with his trademark quirks, Isle of Dogs is style over substance, just lacking somewhat in pathos and heart, and while featuring the occasional hilarious moment, they remain few and far between.

Isle of Dogs is style over substance, just lacking somewhat in pathos and heart, and while featuring the occasional hilarious moment, they remain few and far between.

Wallis here retains all the unaffected charm that she showcased in Beasts, skipping nimbly between comedy, pathos and show - stopping song and dance, lending credible heart and soul to a production that so often fails to find its feet.

A saccharine mixture of broad comedy and obvious pathos, Finding Your Feet switches between these two modes with consistent regularity.

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

At the center of most scenes, Josh Brolin walks that distinct Coen brothers line between absurdity and realism, sarcasm and pathos.

These days, every Arnold Schwarzenegger performance is a battle between the present and the past: To watch the Austrian muscleman play his advancing years for comedy (the Expendables series) or pathos (the recent Maggie) is to see a once - herculean action star acknowledge that he's not the perfect human specimen he...

Lady Bird: An artistically inclined 17 - year - old girl comes of age in Sacramento, California, in a film that excavates both the humor and pathos in the turbulent bond between a mother and her teenage daughter.

An artistically inclined 17 - year - old girl comes of age in Sacramento, California in 2002 in a film that excavates both the humor and pathos in the turbulent bond between a mother and her teenage daughter.

The movie, which Nanjiani wrote with Gordon, alternates seamlessly between gentle pathos and wry comedy, then back again.

Set in Sacramento, California in 2002, this brilliant drama portrays the humor and pathos in the turbulent but loving bond between a mother and her teenage daughter, Christine «Lady Bird» McPherson, and sharply observes the relationships and beliefs that shape and define us.

No comic filmmaker in America today works so hard to stay on the knife's edge between humor and pathos or is so eager to challenge his viewers emotionally.

There are surprises along the way and while there is little respite from the action, there is plenty of engaging banter between the protagonists and even genuine pathos as the heroes journey into ever more challenging situations.

As seen in this trailer, the film examines «both the humor and pathos in the turbulent bond between a mother and her teenage daughter.»

He writes of any famous artist's possible «distance between his true self and his public persona,» but distinguishes the pathos of the actor in terms of the extent of fame and relative lack of control over the artistic product itself.

In between, the woman, whose name is Laura (Celia Johnson), fills in the backstory, narrating events — solely in her imagination, thereby increasing the pathos tenfold — to her loving husband (Cyril Raymond).

Pic's late - reel conceit of filming the meeting between Mancini and the son of the man he beat to death in the ring may sound contrived on paper, but it plays beautifully on screen, adding to the pathos of a film whose heart is in the right place throughout.

A Terrence Malick school of cinema apprentice, there are certain parallels that can be drawn between the ethos, pathos or filmmaker conditioning of A.J. Edwards.

It would have been so easy to make a mess of Nelle Harper Lee's slender novel based on her Alabama childhood, but Robert Mulligan's film got the balance between sweetness and pathos exactly right.

- Helen Simonson, author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand «With a deft, sure touch, Ann Leary moves easily and confidently between comedy and pathos, painting a rich portrait of a wealthy, eccentric Connecticut family whose conflicts and loyalties are far more complex than they first appear.

In a franchise known for bombastic action and cheesy dialogue, moments of pathos are few and far between.

From the gaze of a young Susan Atkins standing trial for the Tate - LaBianca murders, to the martyr - like pathos of an injured United States gymnast, the portraits in White's new series create an arresting tension between the fictional and the recognizable.

On view from December 13, 2015, through March 20, 2016, the exhibition Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World features 50 works that survey the development of Hellenistic art as it spread from Greece throughout the Mediterranean between the fourth and first centuries BC.

Running like an open wound along the razor's edge between utter despair and blind rage, Raymond Pettibon has come to define alienation with such profound pathos and poetics that, for many, his art

A narrative around the emotional life of the artist is enacted through fictional characters, producing an in - between world filled with both humour and pathos.

His imperfect image had then to be «corrected by explicitly wounding the picture,» Mr. Storr observed, «and thereby exposing the anxiety that went into its creation and the pathos that attends any painful discrepancy between an imagined perfection and a flawed reality»

Kerlidou writes: «Bonnefoi's strategies seem to condense a few aspects of the work of his American contemporaries: the objectification and theatricalization of a gesture devoid of pathos of David Reed; the deconstructing strategies of Jonathan Lasker — even if Lasker's use of exaggeratedly thick brushstrokes seems closer to Dunoyer; the collaged elements in Philip Taaffe's paintings; and the interplay between the front and back in the work of Craig Fisher.

Like a slapstick comedian, he strikes emotional notes of humor and pathos in equal measures, alternating between moments of antic joy and Sisyphean futility.

The central theme becomes less about the immediate subject at hand; instead resonating more in the relationship between object and viewer, highlighting the pathos and inevitability of forces that are greater than both.

She examines relationships between subject and object, figuration and abstraction, color and form, and humor and pathos.

Kelley works with apparently discarded household items to examine the feelings of pathos and nostalgia and the psychological links between humans and their possessions.

Bonnefoi's strategies seem to condense a few aspects of the work of his American contemporaries: the objectification and theatricalization of a gesture devoid of pathos of David Reed; the deconstructing strategies of Jonathan Lasker — even if Lasker's use of exaggeratedly thick brushstrokes seems closer to Dunoyer; the collaged elements in Philip Taaffe's paintings; and the interplay between the front and back in the work of Craig Fisher.