Sentences with phrase «bleak drama»

This unrelentingly bleak drama about a desperate man in search of his stolen vehicle in the middle of the sprawling Australian Outback has as much to do with environmental sustainability as Twilight has to do with vampires sucking blood.

Lindon beat the likes of Michael Caine (for Paolo Sorrentino's Youth), and Tim Roth, who plays a traumatised palliative care nurse in bleak drama Chronic.

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It's a very bleak drama, full of ambiguous characters and disturbing turns of events, but done with exceptional finesse.

They're frequently used to great comedic effect, though the archness of their scenes occasionally threatens to throw off the delicate balance between Barry's broader elements and increasingly bleak drama.

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.

Reliability can be tough to come by during the overstuffed holiday film season, if serious, sometimes bleak dramas dominate the screen.

Marketed as a horror - thriller, this sharply well - made film is actually a bleak drama with a strong message about bullying.

One of the most powerful entries in competition had to settle for the jury prize, effectively third place: «Loveless» («Nelyubov»), a bleak drama about a couple's divorce that morphs into a brutal indictment of modern - day Russia.

In January Dunst starts another indie adapted from the stage, Adam Rapp's bleak drama «Red Light Winter,» which the NYT called «a frank, graphic story of erotic fixation and the havoc it can wreak on sensitive souls.»

** 1/2 (out of four) How twisted to release a bleak drama of family members treating each other terribly within shouting distance of the holidays, when families are inclined to head to the movies together.

Campos has talent to burn, and even though this film lacks the squalid subtleties of Afterschool, it's still makes for a bleak drama about the practice of looking for love in all the wrong places.

Though this is exactly the type of project that Carell has been actively seeking lately (one that allows him to flex both his comedic and dramatic muscles), it's surprising to see someone like Knightley stray so far from her comfort zone of bleak dramas and stuffy period pieces.

The bleak drama (IFC) got a boost from its berth in the Cannes Directors Fortnight.

«The 11th Hour»: This bleak drama from Danish director Anders Morgenthaler takes a serious look at the power of a woman's biological clock and the drive to be a mother at any cost.

Martin McDonagh explores the darker side of the stories society tells itself in his bleak drama The Pillowman.

A lot has been said about the show's too - close - to - home portrayal of reproductive control and silencing women, but there were bright moments in this ever - bleak drama.

That was followed by Sundance entrant «Everything Put Together» in 2000, before he broke through with «Monster's Ball,» a bleak drama about the romance between a death row inmate's widow and a racist prison guard that won Halle Berry an Oscar, and proved commercially popular as a result.