Sentences with phrase «cerebral world of film»
You can't reasonably look at Argento's work without bearing in mind the contradictory context from which he springs: one the one hand, the practical Italian film industry, with its relentless emphasis on genre and its quick and dirty production practices; on the other, the cerebral world of film criticism, with its inevitable emphasis on analysis and intellectual distance (1).
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Director Abel Ferrara applies his eccentric vision to the vampire genre with this cerebral «Art» film about graduate philosophy student Kathleen Conklin (Lili Taylor), who is bitten by an aggressive female vampire (Annabella Sciorra) and soon spirals into a nightmarish world of blood addiction and existential angst.
«Viewers who buy into the premise of the film's world will find a cool, cerebral and very disturbing film...»
A biopic that plays out like a cerebral thriller, this film traces the life of Alan Turing, the British maths genius who essentially invented the computer and won World War II before being driven to suicide by a cruel legal system.
The world of the film might be interesting for theater or literary buffs who dig the the movie's style of heightened language and philosophical pontificating - but for the average viewer, it's going to be a crude realization of misleading advertising and self - involved cerebral linguistics that are a hard and obtuse code to crack.