Sentences with phrase «broad farce»

Though elements of the Zhang style are readily evident — chiefly the ravishing cinematography (by frequent collaborator Zhao Xiaoding) and a color palette so rich you could eat it for dessert — the movie, entitled A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop, is a less harmonious hybrid, one that shoehorns elements of broad farce and slapstick into the Coens» meticulous tale of lust, deception, and murder.

I was suitably impressed that they were able to switch successfully from broad farce to an insightful, even sensitive, comedy about a man who refuses to grow up and a boy who had no choice in the matter.

The film attempts to juxtapose extremely heightened, broad farce with social satire in a period setting along with dark subject matters such as cannibalism and incest.

But Bier never forgets the comedy either; indeed, she often approaches broad farce as the big day nears, amid growing concern about the groom's sexuality and the arrival of Philip's voluble and long - infatuated sister - in - law, who is convinced that this is the moment she finally gets her sister's man.

The film is adapted, very well, by Robert Carlock from a memoir written by the real - life American TV reporter Kim Barker, but given that Carlock is one of the main writers on 30 Rock and Fey is the star, this could easily have descended into broad farce — a sort of Liz Lemon (the screenwriter she plays in 30 Rock) Goes To War, if you like.

The plot has the makings of a broad farce, but even the broadest requires subtlety to deliver much of the humor, and if there is anything that Dumb & Dumber isn't, it's subtle.

The filmmakers can't decide if they're making a teen romance, a wry look at suburbia, or a broad farce.

The plot has the makings of a broad farce, but even the broadest requires subtlety to deliver much of the humor, and if there is anything that

His most celebrated feature, Yoyo (65), is a clever — at times brilliant — comingling of Keaton's physical comedy, Chaplin's pathos, Tati's gentle social observation, and the broader farce of Frank Tashlin.

Just Go with It should have been a funny, broad farce, but instead it's merely a fluffy «Sandler - ized» romantic comedy from the tired mills of Hollywood.

The timing playfully alternates between expansive and manic, just as the comedy lurches from dumb puns to cinematic in - jokes to broad farce.

And it is a comedy, although placing it alongside drunken revelry, broad farces, and even quirky offbeat indie types seems to sell it short.