Sentences with phrase «bleak film of»

But en route to the harshest, most unremittingly bleak film of his career, Solondz unleashes some of his sharpest commentary on human mortality and regret.

Not exact matches

Centered on a proud protagonist struggling with the revolting indifference of a state that doesn't care about those in need, this bleak and depressing film is also quite touching when showing the generosity of people even under horrible circumstances of poverty and despair.

It may be a bleak glimpse of humanity but I'll be damned if I ever find a film more honest than this.

The first of Ingmar Bergman's bleak but outstanding films from his trilogy of chamber plays about faith, alienation and the emptiness of life.

The film is, even by Paul Schrader's standards, a bleak endeavor, concerned with the durability of spirituality.

Despite the bleak - ness of the situation, the film vibrates with color, noise, music, ferocious arguments (both serious and teasing), and eye - catching snapshots of everyday life in Havana.

While the film does have a loosely Dickensian feel, it is not the Dickens of Lean, with its bleak shadows, striking expressionist angles and emphasis on social inequality.

The best part of Lars von Trier's fascinating, engaging and often didactic Nymphomaniac is that, despite the sometimes - grim tone and bleak color palate, it's an extremely funny film, playful, even.

Danny Madigan (Austin O'Brien) is a lonely 11 - year - old boy who escapes from his bleak reality by glorying in the action adventure movies of his favorite film character, Jack Slater (Arnold Schwarzenegger).

The film is, even by Schrader's standards, a bleak endeavor, concerned with the durability of spirituality, its susceptibility to corruption and radicalism, and its place in modern American life: with the slow decay of the planet, as well as with pain, penance, and the validity of suicide and murder.

As Schrader's hero takes a bleaker look at life, and considers committing an extreme act as a desperate attempt to find resonance and morality in the world, he stands alongside the protagonists of such Schrader - written films as «Taxi Driver,» «American Gigolo» and «Light Sleeper,» three works the filmmaker has connected as his «night trilogy.»

Although not exactly heartwarming, Amour has a more contained vision of human relationships than Haneke's previous films without sacrificing its bleak foundation.

Filmed in bleak green - gray hues, writer - director Peter Landesman's movie depicts D.C. as a nest of vipers, of conspiracies within conspiracies, of paranoia begetting paranoia.

This almost adds to the bleak vision of the film, no music, very little uplifting moments, as if to enjoy yourself is frowned upon.

A bleak and grotty film, turgidly stereotypical in its view of homosexual life - but it's exceptionally well - acted, and consistent in its point of view.

It's highly regarded (as are all of his films) which got me interested, on top of the sci - fi focus, but it also sounded like it might be the slowest moving and most bleak title of his oeuvre.

Colin Farrell took «five or six days off» after filming the thriller «Killing of a Sacred Deer» because he felt down due to the movie's «bleak core».

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.

A beefed - up Joaquin Phoenix dominates Lynne Ramsay's bleak and uneven new film with the most muscular role of his career.

Suffused with the bleak acidity of a time when films often ended with the hero (or heroine) going up in a ball of flame.

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.»

In common with a lot of Ferrara's films, The Funeral is a very bleak affair, full of unsympathetic characters which makes it a little hard going to watch.

This isn't an overtly political film, but Loznitsa's vision of Russia is bleak in the extreme.

A Single Man Tom Ford's adaptation of the Christopher Isherwood novel, about a gay man grieving over the death of his lover, is a bleak, intelligent film that serves as a showcase for what may be Colin Firth's finest film performance, the ultimate elucidation of the character he has been playing, in one form or another, for years: The man who feels too much to allow himself to show it.

Hall's bleak vision, his gift for working with darkness and rain, rivals classic film noir of the 1940s and»50s in its visual mastery.

Needless to say, this hyper - atmospheric art film is a little too reliant on its environment, but the deep snow setting of this lyrically bleak drama was always going to be instrumental in the establishment of both tone and aesthetic value, and sure enough, this film's beautiful environment goes complimented by cinematography by Bedřich Baťka which, while held back by a black - and - white palette, is playful enough in lighting and scope to attract you into this film's handsome world.

The film takes time to outline and explain Thanos» bleak worldview, as well as giving him moments of emotional depth involving daughters Gamora (Zoe Saldana) and Nebula (Karen Gillan).

«Onur Tukel's film presents an ultimately bleak portrait of humanity (that it's all bullshit).

In a bleak, almost dystopian version of 1984, Arthur interviews Slade's former friends and colleagues, allowing the film to dissolve into vignettes that explore Slade's life and career.

Fans of the cast may want to give this minor film a look, but I doubt even they will find much to enjoy about this bleak tale.

Her bleak working conditions in this effects - heavy film demanded physical dexterity and the ability to withstand long periods of isolation, but through it all her gift for connecting with an audience, so essential for this kind of film, never fails her.

The film certainly pushes a fairly bleak outlook on life, like most westerns, and is definitely not the kind of story you'd go along to see for «fun».

Out on Blu - ray December 17th is Elysium, Neill Blomkamp's sophomore film about class disparity in a bleak futuristic vision of Earth.

But instead of toning down the bleak misery of his rookie film, Iñárritu cranked the torment levels up to ten for an experiment in onscreen mourning.

That film and Blue Jasmine are two of Allen's more recent bleaker efforts, but Café Society appears tonally more similar to Magic in the Moonlight and Midnight in Paris.

In this film adaptation, the bleak streets of 19th Century London are recreated in dramatic detail, providing the perfect environment for us to observe the moral decay of Benjamin Barker, a barber who is sent to jail for fifteen years on false charges by Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman), who fancied his wife.

The film is a stylistically brilliant and relentlessly bleak illustration of the old chestnut about the infernal nature of our more internecine endeavors.

Though hardly a great film, Bryan Singer's ambitious adaptation of Stephen King's same - named novella * is nonetheless challenging, a bleak picture destined to be misunderstood by the masses.

The film is the finest balance yet of Martin McDonagh's bleak sense of humor and offbeat moral sincerity.

The film is beautiful and bleak by turns, with attention paid to every tiny detail, making this future world vivid and full of impace.

It's actually a sad film much of the time, but hopeful and affirming throughout, even in its bleaker moments.

Virtually devoid of comic relief and persistently bleak, Silence isn't a fun film to watch.

But the sum of those parts add up to a bleak, unfortunately hopeless film.

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.

This is a bleak film but also a potent one with a perspective that could not be relevant in the midst of the news story that has engulfed our industry.

ABOUT SCHMIDT Director Alexander Payne's film about a Midwestern widower on a journey of self - discovery is uncompromisingly bleak as well as cutting in its portrayal of the casual vulgarity of modern life.

This film would be intolerably bleak if its titular hero didn't have such a wry sense of humor.

At this year's Locarno Festival, (recently renewed) artistic director Carlos Chatrian similarly declared that he foresaw increasing numbers of women filmmakers in the competitions of major festivals and that he was especially proud to tout, in Locarno's main competition section (with 17 world premieres), eight women directors.1 And Locarno's outcome, amid an impressively deep competition pool, was unexpectedly different: although I, Daniel Blake did win the audience award of the Festival's mainstream Piazza Grande section, a female writer / director, Ralitza Petrova, took the festival's top prize for her brooding and bleak Bulgarian film Godless.

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.

Seven Days Sunday is a necessarily bleak retelling of an horrific real - life occurrence, that like many films of its nature raises several possible explanations without ever being able to settle on one.