Sentences with phrase «chamber piece»

From there, the film evolves into a thrilling chamber piece with unpredictable outcomes.

Both movies are intimate two - person chamber pieces that take place over a limited span of time.

An expertly staged and edited chamber piece, the film fails only in its last - minute straining for significance.

It's a tense chamber piece taking place in a European forest 10 years after the fall of civilization.

This wasn't some bedroom chamber piece; this was a rich historical epic, and needed to look appropriately grand.

In many ways Killer Joe harks back to the low - budget chamber pieces of Friedkin's early filmmaking career, not just the aforementioned Pinter drama but also Mart Crowley's groundbreaking gay play The Boys in the Band (1970).

Strengths: Paul Thomas Anderson's elegantly wrought chamber piece set in the»50s London fashion world is beloved by critics and should play well on the arthouse circuit.

An intimate chamber piece for two, superbly acted by Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn, this is a mature, well - crafted movie.

Naturalism is second nature to us these days, at least in indie chamber pieces like The Seagull.

I judged too quickly, thinking him one of those actors who prides himself on making the big bad movies in order to fund the small good ones — a kind of vanity tax upon the audience, whereby the pointless shoot -»em - up is the price we supposedly pay for the chilly little chamber piece about divorce.

Russian Ark is a bracing tonic, a generous, and endlessly inventive adventure through a museum, with a cast of hundreds, where as Victoria almost feels like a cramped chamber piece by comparison.

Emerging director JC Chandor's debut, Margin Call, was a wordy chamber piece featuring an all - star cast, but for his second effort, All is Lost, he takes a refreshingly approach, shrinking his cast to a sole lead (the legendary Robert Redford) and giving him a mere three lines of dialog.

Unlike the found - footage monster mayhem of Cloverfield, Trachtenberg's film (his first) is an intimate chamber piece set in an underground bunker, played out with only three characters.

Marjorie Prime Superb performances by Lois Smith, Jon Hamm, Geena Davis and Tim Robbins are the center of this elegant, quietly haunting sci - fi chamber piece directed by Michael Almereyda, who adapted it from Jordan Harrison's 2014 play.

Jazz trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire (pictured) and rapper Kool A.D. will present the world premiere of their new chamber piece in St. Paul, Minn. in February.

Abrahamson, Oscar - nominated for Room, certainly has skill with intense chamber pieces.

In Steven Knight's experimental chamber piece Locke, we follow construction manager Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy) who, while driving on a...

In Steven Knight's experimental chamber piece Locke, we follow construction manager Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy) who, while driving on a highway late at night, has his whole world crumble around him as

This is a finely suspenseful and mysterious chamber piece until we leave the bunker and the movie officially connects into the Cloverfield universe.

Marjorie Prime is a contemplative, intimate and poetic chamber piece, superbly told and nimbly acted, with equal parts nuance and empathy.

DENIAL serves as a passionate and talky chamber piece which examines both sides of the Holocaust debate, and while it's done very well, there's no question whose side we're on.

plays out as an absurdist chamber piece: a single - location thriller constructed out of tightly - observed social interactions.

Although Romero generally claimed to be a Ford / Hawks / Welles type of cinephile and didn't often mention Cassavetes or Bergman as favourite directors, if at all, that's how a lot of this film plays — as an intriguing combination of the former's downbeat cinéma vérité style and the latter's more artfully - composed 1960s chamber pieces.

Joking aside, Sicario truly is a three - chamber piece wringing out arguably career - best performances in Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, and to a lesser extent, Josh Brolin.

Maybe there's not much meat on the bone of this hedonistic, Euro - flavored chamber piece, but my God, each bite is more succulent than the next.

Without Ms. Kidman's brilliantly nuanced performance, «Birth» might feel arch, chilly and a little sadistic, but she gives herself so completely to the role that the film becomes both spellbinding and heartbreaking, a delicate chamber piece with the large, troubled heart of an opera.

Twisting a tightly wound, detail - rich narrative into a superbly crafted, white - knuckle chamber piece, 10 Cloverfield Lane defies all genre expectations, including the generalisation that long overdue «sequels» are inherently inferior to their source material.

However, the less successful Closed Curtain (2013, directed with Kambuzia Partovi) was a claustrophobically self - referential chamber piece, and suggested that Panahi's plight was getting the better of him.

As a standalone chamber piece, which is how the majority of the film's 100 minutes are spent, 10 Cloverfield Lane works quite well.

Following the disappointment of Kim Jee - woon's The Last Stand and the lukewarm reception of Park Chan - wook's meticulous chamber piece Stoker, Bong Joon - ho has created with Snowpiercer the most accomplished overseas work of any Korean filmmaker to - date.

Garland's science - fiction chamber piece — his first film as director, and fifth as screenwriter, after 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Never Let Me Go and Dredd — starts from the premise that no one knows us better than our internet browsers, then turns that queasy intimacy inside out.

Like the scenes of Maurice's photo sessions, this character suggests other lives and destinies — trajectories leading away from the central narrative — that allow a bit of air into what would otherwise be a claustrophobic chamber piece.

Staged as a three - handed chamber piece between Winstead, Goodman and Gallagher Jr., the film hinges on the performances of its cast.

With the help of Bergman's natural talent for scriptwriting, she's directed Private Confessions and Faithless into compelling and potent chamber pieces.

A willfully muted chamber piece, «The Time Being,» co-written and directed by Nenad Cican - Sain, is a curious thing.

Then there is Brock Norman Brock and Nicolas Winding Refn's «Bronson,» a brilliant, mad chamber piece of a sort that is more a showcase for Tom Hardy's blistering portrayal than anything else.

An intriguing chamber piece that completely changes the game in the final minutes, Neil LaBute's Some Velvet Morning ends on a note that I'd never spoil, so I can't really explain it, except to just urge you to seek it out.

Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Cannes Palme d'Or winner is an epic chamber piece by a contemporary great.

In Darkest Hour, Wright manages to find the power in restraint, though his film is still far more mannered and art - directed than your standard political chamber piece.

The movie could have stood to be slightly shorter to give its terrors more potency, but Don't Be Afraid of the Dark is still a nicely effective chamber piece that should please audiences tired of all that paranormal activity.

A piercingly intelligent and flawlessly performed chamber piece, in which the video camera becomes a charged metaphor for the characters» isolation, the Palme d'Or — winning sex, lies, and videotape changed the landscape of American film, helping pave the way for the thriving independent scene of the 1990s.

The Unpolished (Pia Marais, Germany) In her slow - burning and moving chamber piece, Marais stays close to her 14 - year - old heroine, whose longing for the straight life puts her at odds with her addict mother and ex-con father.

Rachels Weisz and McAdams share a few charged scenes — too few — in this contemplative chamber piece.

comes on like an Ingmar Bergman chamber piece, or the early parts of Straw Dogs.

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.