Sentences with phrase «bleak portrait of»

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

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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This portrait of motherhood is extremely blunt, bleak, gratuitous, and so funny it's painful.

Relentlessly bleak and hopeless, as well as grisly and gory, this well - made thriller nonetheless paints an interesting portrait of human nature and the divide between perceived strength and kindness.

Filmmaker Denis Villeneuve's bleak, taut thriller Sicario is one of the best films of the year (read my full review here), but it presents a stark and candid portrait of the U.S.'s response to violence with more violence, specifically in the case of the War on Drugs.

Inventively comedic, its droll moments of melodrama reflect bleak social commentary as well as a successfully mocking character portrait, Marguerite is Giannoli's strongest title to date and an excellent reflection of Ms. Frot's considerable talents.

Regardless of its flaws though, Ayer uses his admirable talents to paint a bleak and unforgettable portrait of a tank's crew suffering through the end of the war here.

Billed as an intimate portrait of her family, the exhibition features many of them — her sisters, nieces, husband, mother and her daughter — often pictured on a bleak seafront, bundled up against the searing wind, with assorted dogs in tow.

In spite of Auerbach's and Giacometti's denial of an emotional intent to their work, they nonetheless express a bleak, existentialist outlook, while Bacon's more overtly nihilistic series of self - portraits from the seventies emanate from the suicide of his lover, George Dyer, in 1971.

Mindful of that history, the photographer Katy Grannan traveled along the valley's Highway 99 for her latest body of work, which is a mix of close - up color portraits taken in glaring sunlight and bleak black - and - white landscapes.