Sentences with phrase «central characters through»

A bracingly fresh approach to the coming - of - age genre, this French drama gives remarkable insight into its central character through detailed observation rather than overt plotting or dialogue.

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Digital Gold charts the rise of the Bitcoin technology through the eyes of the movement's colorful central characters, including an Argentinian millionaire, a Chinese entrepreneur, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, and Bitcoin's elusive creator, Satoshi Nakamoto.

Through all the «scenes» what we see and hear is a moving mosaic of many scenarios, schemes used and discarded by both central characters as they try to explain the causes of their misery and the forms of their salvation.

The central premise of EL schools is that character is built not through lectures or direct instruction from teachers but through the experience of persevering through challenging academic work.

Gravity becomes a character study driven by a riveting central performance and a radical thrill ride delivered with near real - time urgency which thrusts you through its implausibilities.

The stretched - out action set piece that takes up a majority of the middle section is a work of fine filmmaking craft and design, and it is seen mostly through the eyes of the central characters.

The characters are living through a thriller, but a major component of the central joke is that they're either completely unaware of it or totally unprepared for what the reality of their situation entails.

(His latest, which also happens to be opening this month — «Golden Exits» — also features a central character who's an archivist sorting through the letters, photographs and documents of his late father - in - law's life.)

The central gimmick allows the film's modern - day stars to, through clever editing, interact with scenes and characters from actual period thrillers.

William Shatner is clearly not an experienced director, but the pacing is fine and the enduring friendship between the central characters that forms the core of the film shines through.

Our central characters move through several emotional thresholds, passing from room to room of their lives before our eyes.

Through the central image of the frontier, the meeting point of wilderness and civilization, Ford explores the divisions of our national character, with its search for order and its need for violence, its spirit of community and its quest for independence

Perez's screenplay sets up gags and pays them off all the way through to the very end, and its core of well - established central characters allows us to follow them through some dangerous situations, laughing all the way.

Namely its central performance from Mary Elizabeth Winstead, who carries this understated character study that rather uneventfully charts a workaholic woman's mildly difficult navigation through the denial that her marriage is over.

His harrowing journey is told through the international cast of characters who have been involved in Sudan's life, from when he was snatched as a calf from his mother's side in war - torn Central Africa, to his captivity as a prized exhibit in a cold, concrete zoo behind the Iron Curtain while poaching devastated his kind to extinction back home.

The film isn't about the central issue at stake; it's simply a character - study of one woman going through life who decides to make a specific choice when faced with a difficult situation.

Given the phenomenal success of HIMYM and the unexpected casting of Greta Gerwig as the central husband - hunting character (in this case, one who was also going through a divorce), HIMYD seemed like a...

Lionsgate debuted the central cast trio through two Entertainment Weekly covers, featuring Jennifer Lawrence in character as Katniss and Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth in character as Peeta and Gale.

There's nothing wrong with a little suspicious check on the downside of technology every now and again, but the way the movie dismisses its central technological conceit wholesale means that we're essentially watching characters go through the motions until events lead to a point where there's no room for any idea aside from the destruction of what mankind has wrought upon itself.

I get the central conceit, separating the public personae of Bob Dylan into distinct pseudonymous characters — Christian Bale as the folksinger Dylan, Marcus Carl Franklin as the pre-fame ramblin» Dylan, Heath Ledger as the international media star Dylan, etc. — and through them exploring the myth of Dylan by converting it into mythology.

It also went on to gross $ 4.1 million, (5) along with producing certain symbols and stock characters that would be central to Black imagery through the present.

Cregger's bland yet personable turn as the central character is certainly in sharp contrast to Moore's aggressively zany performance, with the actor's incessantly over-the-top work hitting the viewer like nails on a chalkboard and ensuring that the film becomes more and more of a chore to sit through as it progresses.

We retain a link with the McCandless family through the intermittent narration provided by Jena Malone, as Chris» sister, balancing out the central character's journey of discovery by allowing us to glimpse the pain of those left behind (Malone has a great voice for narration, having earned her stripes in last year's Container).

Series co-creators Denis Leary and Peter Tolan continue to put the central character, Tommy Gavin (played by Leary), through a psychological ordeal.

Like a sunbaked Jules and Jim, the movie makes nimble use of its central love triangle, setting up conflicts between the characters as they move through the complicated political and social realities of Mexican life.

Flaws with the filmmaking could perhaps have been forgiven for a tour - de-force central turn, but there's little to learn about the character once the first couple of reels are through.

These characters are spliced into one another through their central emotional problems, and how they are fixed (or prolonged) to the other characters in Anderson's pictures, but it all culminates with Adam Sandler's terrific dramatic turn as Barry Egan in «Punch Drunk Love.»

We have no one to root for or care about — no emotional focal point — because the central character's motivation is hidden from us only to provide a cheap surprise midway through the movie.

This is tiresome stuff, and the movie continues its predecessor's central problem of not having a clear through line for its scenario or any of its characters.

As in his earlier film Gloria, Lelio demonstrates a solid, remarkable grasp of his central female character, capturing Marina's interior life through her exterior actions and reactions.

The fact that there aren't any other memorably rendered characters to truly bounce off of McConaughey, despite a talented ensemble, only serves to stress this cryptic deficiency in the screenplay, whipping as it does through many years, and the movie's central performance.

«The central premise of EL Schools is that character is built not through lectures or direct instruction from teachers but through the experience of persevering as students confront challenging academic work.»

My only complaint is that about two - thirds of the way through, the story loses track of the bomb threat plot for a while, focusing instead on the complicated relationship between the three central characters, Thanial, Grace and Mori.

With unforgettable characters stumbling through love and motherhood and dashed hopes, it's a tale about displacement and racial identity with universal appeal — the perfect inaugural book club pick for ALA's Book Club Central.

This is not as good as «Girl With One Pearl Earring» by a wide margin, and William Blake seems more like an extra character, not the central focus as the title would suggest, but the story and the characters kept me interested all the way through.

Ubisoft has released a new CGI trailer for Assassin's Creed Unity that shows Arno racing against time and through a dense and chaotic central Paris in order to prevent the beheading of Elise, a character central to Assassin's Creed Unity's story.

As most of you will probably know, all of the Pokémon games follow the same basic premise: a central character (controlled by the player) travels through a fantasy world capturing and battling Pokémon in order to level - up and achieve master ranking.

We remember Vaas and Pagan Min because when it comes to the Far Cry series, the central characters are really just ciphers for us as players, and lenses through whom we can come to view the games» explorations of their villains.

Driven by a central murder mystery in which the player character is said to be the killer, an unnamed victim narrates the dreamlike story as you make your way through Wuthrer's sketchbook-esque world.

Leafing through the menu, we also came across two special Final Fantasy VII parfaits, modeled after central characters Aerith and Cloud.

They're morality plays, fables, and often they're about a character who is going through an experience that's central to their life but also speaks to a larger part of the human condition.

But the central mystery — the location of the lost city of Ubar — is then essentially solved halfway through the game and it the game launches into a meandering sequence of events where character interaction is entirely thrown out in favour set - piece after set - piece after set - piece.

She will explore these ideas through a central female character.

Syms's 4 - channel installation — avaliable through VDB as a single channel video — follows the central character (an aspiring artist also named Martine Syms) on a journey home from the dentist after receiving «laughing gas.»

An ethereal blue painting with waterfalls of diaphanous white and pale pink has as its central character a little bear tumbling through space.

Total playing time to make it through the central narrative of each playset adventure is around four to six hours, and much of the experience consists of getting a mission from one computer - controlled supporting character, traveling to the mission location, fighting waves of enemies, and then seeking out another mission.

Through the six activity levels of the program, students are encouraged to communicate openly using the safety and anonymity of a central character.