Sentences with phrase «but bleakness»

It is one of the more original post-apocalyptic films to be released as of late and is a curiously thought - provoking at that, but its bleakness will not appeal to all audiences.

It is one of the more original post-apocalyptic films to be released as of late and is a curiously thought - provoking one at that, but its bleakness will not appeal to all audiences.

Nebraska is filmed in black and white, and in the earliest scenes the plain palette suggests nothing but bleakness — an impression heightened as David drives Woody through the empty country of the heartland with its open spaces and run - down towns.

But the bleakness of his existence unexpectedly brightens when a fiery redhead named Marie O'Donnell (Connie Nielson) appears and tells the boy she wants to adopt him.

Not exact matches

But a second Great Depression seemed quite possible in the bleakness of six years ago, and whether there were missteps or not, Mr. Bernanke successfully steered the nation away from one.

But his allegiance to the cause of Christ makes the bleakness of his life glow with glory.

At the very moment they experience the utter bleakness of abandonment, Powers's favored characters glimpse some benign possibility built into the universe, itself vulnerable, faintly but unmistakably detectable amid suffering and injustice.»

But «the reality of grief is the absence of God,» he noted, and we must guard against words offered «for self - protection, to pretty up a situation whose bleakness [we] simply [can not] face...» («My Son Beat Me to the Grave,» A.D., June 1983, p. 26).

Growing up during the Drought meant so much bleakness, but Freddy always found a way to make it bright again.

But unfortunately, he wasn't able to create anything of any note and almost withered into the bleakness of the game.

Gilliam re-edited and submitted a 130 minute version, but they still wouldn't show it, partly because of its bleakness and pessimism.

This is Schrader at his sparest; characters rarely look warm — the cinematography by Alexander Dynan («Dog Eat Dog») accentuates the wintry bleakness — the camera rarely moves during scenes, silences and awkward pauses abound, and the score by Brian Williams is used sparingly, but always effectively.

Over recent years, the film noir genre has largely served as a reference point for filmmakers, who dress up their movies with snappy dialogue and / or complex, violent stories but neglect the genre's bleakness.

The darkness of the drama becomes not just depressing, but overwhelmingly so in its approach, at which time the bleakness becomes all - consuming, and quite out of place in this drama about securing the rights to a beachside home.

Life is wild and chaotic out in the middle of nowhere, but the message is still clear — it can still be preferable to the bleakness of modern society.

Crimes and Misdemeanors, Cassandra's Dream, and Match Point, to name a few, but none of them compare to the bleakness of Irrational Man.

The performances aren't to blame, and the overall tone is light enough to offset the bleakness of the plot, but somehow Married Life doesn't get out of second gear.

Most notably, Scorsese's ending is bleaker, and in its bleakness, is indefatigably black and white: Violence is wrong, police are good, but nothing — including justice — truly matters.

This isn't to say that Haneke is a stranger to a smile — even Funny Games has some humour buried in the bleakness, its title not completely ironic — but with Happy End Haneke has come probably as close as he will to a screwball comedy.

Domnhall Gleeson gets a few good jabs of honor and dignity in to lighten the bleakness, but we know a showdown is coming and the anticipation is scintillating.

Performances are great, but for a film about emotions, the bleakness does not necessarily generate the heart - felt response it should.

Baker has made a surprisingly joyous film from this despairing situation, but even more difficult, he has done so without obscuring the inherent bleakness of the circumstances of this life or romanticizing them.

«The Revenant» sees him backslide to the bleakness of «Amores Perros» and «Babel» but without the detailed storytelling.

His descriptions are vivid even in their bleakness, but this story is much more romantic than I expected.

The developers have mentioned that there will be some humour throughout the game to contrast the bleakness of the subject matter, and of course at the centre of it all is a hopefully touching character - driven story, but I hope they don't stay too far away from the horror of the war.

The first had its goofily quotable hard - boiled dialogue, but it wore thin early on; MP2's unrelenting bleakness gets funnier as the game goes on, with just enough genuine pathos to keep the pain meaningful and darkly hilarious.

It may sound unfair, but it's also more real, and is perhaps Stoic's way of drumming into you the bleakness and hopelessness of trying to lead in the most dire of situations.

September 7 — October 14, 2017 The paintings in Gustavo Acosta's «Inventory of Omissions» may initially seem like discrete chapters in a visual essay on the oppressive bleakness of the modern city, but such a reading misses the point of his static but intensely hued portrayals of sites in Havana, Miami, New York, and Aleppo.

Recycled pieces of fabric, drapery, scraps of wood, wire, cut cardboard and paper, other photos, painted motifs, yarn, cord, ceramics, and stickers come and go, speaking not of Michelangelo but of a latter - day tween - on - a-budget twist on Giacometti's emaciated sickly figures — suburban sprawl and craft - store spree meet creeping apocalyptic bleakness on the one hand, and tenderness with a sweet attention to detail on the other.

The grayness of the installation reinforces the overall bleakness of the collapsing environment, but the flatness of tone signals that this is an entirely invented space.

But for any laid - off lawyer today who looks ahead and sees only bleakness, Pynchon's story provides reason to hope.

But that's not something Williams was capable of processing when it felt like the bleakness within his soul would never -LSB-...]

But that's not something Williams was capable of processing when it felt like the bleakness within his soul would never end.