Sentences with phrase «chamber drama»

Brilliantly structured as a contemporary chamber drama about loving your neighbours in the first part and, in the second, as a dreamy silent film re-imagining of their heretofore unknown histories, this is the rare critical darling that's as warm as it is intelligent.

Those willing to enter The Club will discover an original and brilliantly acted chamber drama in which Larrain's fiercely political voice comes through as loud and clear as ever.

The film is like a landlocked Bergman chamber drama divested of any ambivalence regarding human relationships.

But those willing to enter «The Club» will discover an original and brilliantly acted chamber drama in which Larrain's fiercely political voice comes through as loud and clear as ever.

Sieranevada Directed by Cristi Puiu Romania, 2016, 173m Romanian with English subtitles U.S. Premiere A decade after jumpstarting the Romanian New Wave with The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, Cristi Puiu returns with a virtuosic chamber drama set largely within a labyrinthine Bucharest apartment where a cantankerous extended family has gathered forty days after its patriarch's death (and three days after the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris).

Ingmar Bergman's intense, character - based chamber drama Through a Glass Darkly has always seemed like it would make for a great, intimate theater piece.

It's like a landlocked Bergman chamber drama divested of any ambivalence regarding human relationships.

There were many parallels in this film to your previous chamber dramas like The Dreamers, Besieged, even Last Tango.

Not a horror film or thriller, nor exactly a ghost story, it is a deeply uncanny portrait of a home, most effective in its close attention to domestic spaces and its moments of intimate chamber drama.

Both are arguably best understood as chamber dramas, and while

Director Andrew Wagner draws topnotch work from a pro cast in Starting Out in the Evening, a wise, carefully observed chamber drama.

A film of two distinct halves, like Wong Kar - wai's Chung Hing sam lam (Chungking Express, 1994) and Gomes» previous feature Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto (Our Beloved Month of August, 2008), Tabu begins with «Paradise Lost», a domestic chamber drama in which a group of women come together in and around an apartment in present - day Lisbon as the elderly Aurora's (Laura Soveral) life slips away in the days before the arrival of the new year.

His new film, a chatty 18th - century chamber drama, reunites the stars of his 1998 masterpiece Last Days of Disco: Kate Beckinsale and Chloë Sevigny.

Unfortunately, the narrative frequently diverts the story away from the gripping chamber drama at the heart of the film.

Olivier Assayas is about as protean as today's great filmmakers come, but the last thing I expected from the mad genius behind the globe - trotting, gorgeously kinetic Boarding Gate is a Chekhovian chamber drama whose mantra could be essentially reduced to: posterity cares.

Gorgeously photographed in creamy sepia tones and driven by two virtuoso central performances, this tender, daring chamber drama is a more - relevant - than - ever look at fascism's human cost.

Half chamber drama, half dark dramedy of errors, director Miguel Arteta (The Good Girl, 2002 Sundance Film Festival) discerns his characters by showing their most telling reactions, such as the subliminal determination of Hayek's face, while spinning an indelible wickedness onto this tale of a fateful encounter.

«Blue Jay» (Alex Lehmann) The official synopsis: «Meeting by chance when they return to their tiny California hometown, two former high - school sweethearts (Mark Duplass and Sarah Paulson) reflect on their shared past through the lens of their differently dissatisfied presents, in this tender, wise and affecting chamber drama from first - time feature director Alex Lehmann.»

As befits its reclusive heroine, it's largely a claustrophobic chamber drama, and arguably Davies's most uncompromisingly austere film since The Long Day Closes (92).

T.I.F.F. also hosted the two likeliest first - time best - director nominees this year: Joe Wright, whose World War II chamber drama Darkest Hour has largely earned raves for Gary Oldman's lead performance but stands well on its own, and Christopher Nolan.

The rest of This Is the End functions as a surprisingly basic chamber drama, with principal leads Rogen, Baruchel, and Franco barred inside the house with Jonah Hill and Craig Robinson as they hoard food supplies and fight over water and sleeping arrangements.

And it's a shame that misgivings about its final scenes threaten to overwhelm what is otherwise an undeniably satisfying and suspenseful chamber drama bolstered by punishingly effective sound design, an often menacing score from Bear McCreary and excellent leading turns from Mary Elizabeth Winstead and John Goodman.

That's where you'll find curiosities such as best supporting performance votes for Ray Romano, who takes a surprisingly dramatic turn in «The Big Sick» as the father of a coma - stricken woman (Zoe Kazan), and support for Salma Hayek's turn in Miguel Arteta's politically - tinged chamber drama «Beatriz at Dinner.»

Sweet songs of sad thought: Kore - eda's latest understated chamber drama gets to the heart of sibling dynamics

After all, he had just produced a one - two hit of moody, studio - funded chamber dramas featuring big - name leads (Nicole Kidman, Ben Stiller) who seemed intent on stripping away their movie - star vanity to revel in warts - and - all portrayals of unglamorous, perhaps even mean - spirited, broken characters.

We mentioned last April that Ingmar Bergman's intense, Oscar - winning chamber drama Through a Glass Darkly, about a young woman's emotional crack - up, was being adapted for the London stage.

Screenwriter Anthony McCarten («The Theory of Everything»), director Joe Wright (who delivered a stunning single take of the beach at Dunkirk in «Atonement»), and Oldman (who has only been nominated once, for «Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy») turn what could have been a wordy chamber drama into something viscerally compelling and far more timely than anyone anticipated.

Thinly drawn characters and a three - hour - plus running time make this Western an inessential and interminable chamber drama.

Teinosuke Kinugasa's colorful (literally — not figuratively) chamber drama Gate of Hell (1953) took home a slew of awards from 1954 - 1955 from Cannes to the Oscars.

This technique turns the film's lengthy second act into a combination chamber drama and survival thriller, as dehydration, a vicious stray dog, and Jessie's vision of an unearthly «Moonlight Man» interrupt her dry verbal sparring with Gerald's misogynist mirage.

This intense chamber drama centers on an ambitious young industrial designer who is summoned home to help his father and sister.

I confess to being a sucker for the kind of melodrama that writer - director Alan Hrsuka serves up in Reunion: a soap opera disguised as a serious chamber drama in the...

Married to the swooning, hypnotic camerawork that has been the hallmark of Park's collaboration with DP Chung Chung since Oldboy, it has about it the perversity of a Victorian chamber drama squeezed through the filter of a very Korean take on class and sex — attitudes partly shaped by living in the shadow of one of the two or three most unstable regimes in the world.

The last time Roman Polanski directed an adaptation of an acclaimed chamber drama, the result was the less than stellar

Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal are excellent as the brother in this American chamber drama, but for all the intensity of their ordeal, I never got pulled into t heir lives or their story.

Our hope that this would be a 90 minute chamber drama in which the characters trade bon mots and sip Dubonnet are duly dashed by this big, loud, business - as - usual trailer.

The first scene of Michael Almereyda's graceful, enthralling chamber drama «Marjorie Prime» takes place in the well - appointed living room of a Long Island beach house.

How big of a crew you had on the set since the film uncoils frequently almost as an intimate chamber drama?

Interiors is about the best imitation of a Bergman chamber drama you could ask for, down to the spare set design, strained family relations, and a climax involving an angry sea.

Though it's essentially an intimate one - act chamber drama, writer - director Sally Potter's The Party never seems like a filmed play.

«A Ghost Story» David Lowery reunites with his «Ain't Them Bodies Saints» stars Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck for a chamber drama about a man who dies, and is forced to watch his loved one grieve over expanses of time.

An unexpected knack for the chamber drama is revealed as a talent of Haneke's, whose films tended toward the expansive, existential, and sometimes deliberately esoteric.

Does the marriage in Andrew Haigh's chamber drama have an unhappy center, or is there simply nothing there?

For a hot minute, as I stumbled out of the Palais and went (yes) to the newly - opened Cannes branch Steak»n Shake to honor Roger's favorite burger, I imagined an alternative movie universe: one in which Nuri Bilge Ceylan directs the new Spider - Man flick, and where Sam Raimi is given all the money he wants to make a chamber drama set in rural Poland.

A chamber drama combined with thriller elements and — well, I can't tell you that — is a lot to take on for a first feature film, but director Dan Trachtenberg does impressive work with a picture that will surely have Hollywood soon knocking on his door.

Logically, Niccol has fashioned from this subject matter a chamber drama that reflects the tight confines of the drone pilot's trailer.