Sentences with phrase «bleak comedy»

The character was reprehensible and the filmmaking electric; somewhere around the midpoint, you might start realizing this is a great bleak comedy and that everyone involved is walking a high wire you didn't even know was there.

Wiener - Dog is an unrelentingly dark, bleak comedy peppered with unlikable characters and some sequences that are just begging for animal rights groups to petition and denounce Todd Solondz» work à la Heaven's Gate.

As characters bicker over Stalin's body and banter about allegiance to the state, the corresponding performances prove a masterclass in devilishly, hysterically bleak comedy.

Foster has been a regular presence at Cannes throughout the decades and presented her last directorial effort — the bleak comedy «The Beaver,» starring Mel Gibson — in an out - of - competition slot in 2011.

2012's Sightseers is a vicious and bleak comedy that is as hilarious as it is gory.

Briefly: Director Jody Hill and actor Danny McBride made the bleak comedy The Foot Fist Way before collaborating on multiple seasons of HBO's comedy series Eastbound and Down.

If you couldn't tell, this is a rather bleak comedy, and the situations just keep getting bleaker.

Not exact matches

The movie is bracing, bleak and funny, assuming you can appreciate the comedy in a story full of lowlifes, lushes and losers.

Since his debut performance in director David Gordon Green's bleak rural drama George Washington (2000), actor Paul Schneider has appeared alongside Sarah Jessica Parker and Diane Keaton in The Family Stone (2005) and co-starred in the comedy drama Elizabethtown.

His name is Richard E. Grant, and his first big movie role was last year in the bleak, knife - edged comedy «Withnail and I.» He played a dark - eyed, lantern - faced, intense loner with spite for everybody.

They have made a film that is both bleak and frothy, a tale of despair told with glee, a melodrama delivered with camp panache, a tragedy that is also a comedy.

Considering how that film was not exactly a commercial success, this may not sound like a big deal to many of you but as someone who believes that bleak and bruising comedy - drama to be one of the great unsung movies of the decade — the kind of film that the great Billy Wilder might have made once upon a time — I went into the screening with the kind of over-the-top sense of anticipation that many felt as they walked into «Avengers: Infinity War.»

MIFF delivered many other memorable movies, from the giallo scares of Berberian Sound Studio to the bleak, black comedy of certain English hit Sightseers.

Hitting that sweet spot between comedy and tragedy, this faith - restoring German film conjures moments of surreal hilarity out of a somewhat bleak situation: an estranged dad adopts a jokey new persona in an effort to connect with his miserable, corporate - slave daughter, with increasingly unpredictable results.

Cristi Puiu «s black comedy started the buzz on what everyone considers the Romanian New Wave, and echoes of this film are still felt in its bleak, oppressive worldview, comically overwhelmed protagonist, and exceedingly flawed mortality.

SARAH SILVERMAN, «I SMILE BACK» Silverman may not get enough credit for her work in this bleak family drama; it's an impressive departure from the outrageous comedy that has defined her career, but stands on its own as a study of subtlety and vulnerability.

With the exception of «Juno,» the indie comedy about a wisecracking pregnant teenager, the films leading the Oscars race tended to be long on grandeur and bleak in outlook.

Gilliam instead delivered a merrily bleak portrait of amoral dysfunction, mixing absurdist comedy with nightmarish imagery in truly unsettling ways.

Hader's character is more allowed to embrace comedy (the subject material is so dark and bleak that the script does need the actors to tell jokes just for the audience's survival), his character using dry sarcasm as a shield against the gritty reality of life.

At best, we might say that Fargo offers «a white and a funny side, too,» with its bleak, blinding snowscapes and pervasive, though dry and still very dark, comedy.

A few days after Carrey gave a bizarre, existentially bleak interview on the red carpet at a New York Fashion Week event, The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that Carrey will star in a Showtime comedy series cal... Read more

Sure, it's based on a stage - play and betrays its origins, it features a stunning performance from Jason Robards and, as far as I remember, was a bleak, black comedy set in a pre-gentrifiied NYC.

Staking out bleaker territory is another debut, Jordan Peele's «Get Out,» a horror - comedy (but more the former) with its finger squarely on the pulse of racial tensions.

Charlie Chaplin plays shockingly against type in his most controversial film, a brilliant and bleak black comedy about money, marriage, and murder.

The way in which McDormand delivers her lines or expresses so much emotion and humanity without even uttering a single word is as good as your going to see and her and McDonagh seem like a match made in movie making heaven as they collaborate together too make this heavy bleak drama / comedy a cut well above average.

Expect that and more from the writer / director's latest stinging triumph «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,» a bleak, all - out brilliant pitch - black comedy that taps the raw nerve of America's revenge - fueled zeitgeist with its unpredictable narrative about how a mom's quest to avenge her murdered daughter upends a town.

Instead, it is marketed as a kind of middle - of - the - road comedy - romance with horror elements, and while it does contain some rom - com and sitcom elements, the increasingly bleak nature of the storyline will probably turn off audiences for that kind of black material.

Some other memorable moments that emerged while compiling this: Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep (both Oscar - nominated) and Tom Waits on the downward spiral in Hector Babenco and William Kennedy's bleak «Ironweed»; John Huston's lyrical direction of the posthumously released adaptation of James Joyce's «The Dead»; the joyous Cajun -, zydeco -, R&B and gospel - flavored soundtrack of «The Big Easy,» gumbo for the ears; the consummate character actor John Mahoney breaking out (at least for me) in «Tin Men,» «Suspect» and «Moonstruck» and and Hunter delighting in «Raising Arizona,» «Broadcast News» and just about anything that came after; plus two British indies: Emily Lloyd as a cheeky 16 - year - old in David Leland's delightful comedy - drama «Wish You Were Here»; and one of the great cult films of the decade, Bruce Robinson's savagely witty «Withnail and I» with Richard E. Grant and Paul McCann.

In order to grind his axes, he has abandoned his history as the director of aggressively bleak films like 21 Grams and Biutiful and made Birdman, a comedy of sorts.

He gives this mousy little clerk the hapless expression and submissive body language of the resigned patsy in a bleak human comedy, happy to toiling in the backrooms of city hall until he's hauled out to record an official meeting.

The comedy elements could help soften the bleak nature of the story, but when the jokes come and go and the audience is left with a story that is not that interesting to follow.

While the comedy is dark and the drama is as bleak as the searing desert, what sets this AMC show apart is how it deals with the moral compromises a man makes for a good cause.

Though the narrative is rather bleak, The Parking Lot Attendant contains surprising moments of comedy, thanks to the whip - smart and charming narrator, and her capacity for loving someone (even though he is the book's villain) is touching.