Sentences with phrase «bleak portrait»

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

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

The Jury Prize went to the «Loveless ``, a typically bleak portrait of Russian society from Andrey Zvyagintsev.

Coming off an excellent survey of Richard Deacon's sculptural works, San Diego Museum of Art's new exhibition focuses on Biondo's «Playground» series, composed of beautiful and often bleak portraits of dilapidated American slides, swing sets, teeter - totters and more.

The first is Complicity in the Holocaust by Robert P. Ericksen, a bleak portrait of capitulation and collaboration during the Nazi era.

The film's cold, apocalyptic final shots aptly conclude a bleak portrait.

Behind the façade of easy living and knockabout camaraderie is a bleak portrait of the mental and emotional scars left on a generation of men broken the meat grinder of the first modern industrial war.

Regardless of location, Inarritu paints a bleak portrait of society, where remote villages can be infiltrated by foreigners, and at the same time, in the middle of a bustling city, someone can feel very isolated and alone.

In painting a bleak portrait of a thankless job that's grown tougher with the influx of sometimes desperate immigrants, it turns one of the world's most beautiful cities into a daunting tableau of harsh survivalism.

It is entertaining, which is a challenge for a film that wishes to paint a bleak portrait.

He paints a bleak portrait of East Berlin in the 1970s, with its worthless currency, «sour - faced» military guards, secret police, and drab institutional architecture.

The Prague Post felt the film «paints a bleak portrait of an alternately beer - soaked, smut - infused and financially grim existence for Western transplants in Prague,» and «whether this is true of all ex-pats, it is certainly true of the four souls Longmire profiled.»

Among his works on view was Painting (1946), a bleak portrait of an unnamed figure, which is now part of MoMA's collection.