Sentences with phrase «chamber drama about»

is essentially a chamber drama about the secrets held and the lies told by two men and a machine that might as well be human.

Ex Machina is essentially a chamber drama about the secrets held and the lies told by two men and a machine that might as well be human.

At its core, it's a chamber drama about obsession and self - possession, but the film nevertheless finds two young women making big decisions with weighty consequences.

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.

«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.

Not exact matches

But whether or not you partook of the drama - filled echo chambers of online pregnancy boards or not, you still no doubt spent a lot of your time contemplating issues about your Future Baby and Future You that, you would find out later, was a completely misspent allocation of mental resources.

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.

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.

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.

Compared to something like A Fantastic Woman, Lelio's intimate, wrenching drama about a trans woman in Chile that is also screening at this festival, Disobedience is a distant chamber piece, a story about hidden passions without much of its own.

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.

These include Joe Wright's Darkest Hour, which portrays Winston Churchill scheming in darkened chambers during the same Battle of Dunkirk that Nolan depicts; Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which features a scorched - earth performance by Frances McDormand as a mother grappling with her daughter's murder; Phantom Thread, director Paul Thomas Anderson's largely unseen drama about a 1950s fashion designer played by Daniel Day - Lewis, in his final performance on screen; and The Post, which is directed by Steven Spielberg and stars Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep as Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee and publisher Kay Graham during the battle to print the Pentagon Papers.