Sentences with phrase «character studies about»

Both films are character studies about men who are driven by a duty to a higher calling that exceeds their own personal lives.

By the time Anderson's done, you'll realize there's an answer embedded in those funky detours, the same way that you can pick out a family drama in his porn - industry epic, Boogie Nights; an old - fashioned romance in Punch - Drunk Love; and character studies about the self - made man in There Will Be Blood and The Master.

Gerry is the yin to Curtis's yang in this often adroit character study about losers on the brink of becoming winners, not so much on the craps table or at the roulette wheel, but in their journey to some measure of self - realization.

The film works as both a character study about two men trying to manipulate the system for personal gain, and as a thriller in which the line between heroes and villains isn't all that clear - cut.

Director Bennett Miller has produced a warm and generally agreeable character study about the pratfalls of athletic institutions and the willingness to think outside the box.

For the most part, Gloria is a day brightener of a character study about finding someone new and making the same old mistakes.

An off - kilter and slyly funny character study about Derek, a thirty - something loner who tries to keep the world at arm's length.

(In English, French and Cantonese with subtitles) You Won't Miss Me (Unrated) Seriocomic character study about a 23 year - old misfit (Stella Schnabel) recently released from a mental hospital.

Before seeing this, I was considerably curious to see how filmmaker David Cronenberg (of A Dangerous Method most recently) would handle a philosophical character study about a billionaire taking a limo across New York City.

Hands Of Stone, a biopic about the Panamanian prizefighter Roberto Durán, can't decide whether it wants to be a portrait of the athlete as an independent hero of his times (like Ali), a character study about machismo (like Raging Bull), or just an underdog sports movie.

In the grand scheme of it all, this is a fairly minor quibble in an otherwise notable character study about coming to terms with difficult situations.

The film is a quietly simmering character study about an immigrant named Abel Morales (Isaac) and his wife, Anna (Jessica Chastain), who attempt to grow their business under the shadow of an imminent criminal indictment and physical assaults on the company's drivers, presumably orchestrated by Morales» rivals.

Though it's a bit of a wobbly mess at times, Hacksaw Ridge ultimately winds up being a deeply moving character study about an unlikely American hero.

After writing the script for Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler, Robert Siegel makes his directorial debut with Big Fan, a dark character study about an obsessed football fan who gets beaten up by his favourite player.

Cloying sentimentality threatens to overwhelm this quiet character study about a widower trying to reconnect...

Shot on 16 mm, Bronstein's film is a bleak but unforgettable character study about a New York door - to - door salesman, played with compassion and ferocity by Dore Mann.

American indie debuts don't come much more accomplished than Krisha, in which writer - director Trey Edward Shults casts a bunch of family members (including his aunt, Krisha Fairchild, who's like a rawer Gena Rowlands) in a disquieting character study about an absentee mother coming home for a supremely awkward Thanksgiving.

Underrated Dark Horse Todd Solondz has played the game of button - pushing provocation for so long that when he made a humane, empathetic, relatively straightforward character study about loneliness and entitlement, few seemed to notice.

Surprisingly, though, this trailer for Clint Eastwood's Sully almost makes it seem like the famous emergency landing is just backstory for a character study about Tom Hanks as a guy who suddenly finds himself thrust into the national spotlight.

These portraits summarise the film: it is a minor tale in its scale and cinematic form, but the performances and the writing are so intimately drawn that it becomes an unexpectedly moving character study about welfare and painful upbringings.

Her university thesis film, The Forest For The Trees (2003), is a cringe - comedy character study about a young woman, new in town, who's eager to make friends and completely indifferent to societal standards regarding personal boundaries.

Though it boasts a strong performance from the always reliable Tom Hanks and good supporting turns by Alexander Black and Sarita Choudhury, the movie is a somewhat bland and uneven character study about a middle - aged white guy getting his groove back in the Middle East.

The American is actually an arty little character study about a lonely assassin for hire who has become a target and hides out in a picturesque Italian village.

The Last Movie Star (R for sexuality and partial nudity) Burt Reynolds stars in this poignant character study about an aging matinee idol forced to face the fact that his glory days are way behind him.

Brazilian writer and director Anna Muylaert delivers this darkly comic character study about a 17 - year - old exploring his gender identity to his family.

Please Stand By Details: 2018, Magnolia Home Entertainment Rated: PG - 13, language The lowdown: Dakota Fanning stars as Wendy in the charming character study about a very independent and brilliant young woman with autism.

Through half the movie, we have no good reason to care for him, but buried inside McDonagh's caustic comedy is a character study about someone who might just possibly take a turn for the better.

Other selections include «Wanda» (1971), a character study about loneliness and personal isolation written and directed by actress Barbara Loden, and a collection of home movies of the Fuentes family in the 1920s and 1930s in Corpus Christi.

The film — a character study about two road workers who bicker and banter with each other as they tediously paint road lines in a burned down Texas state park — is a notably weightier comedy than most Rudd vehicles (this isn't one), striking some beautiful, poignant notes along with the funny dialogue.

Jason Schwartzman anchors this amusing character study about an irrational, uninspired alcoholic.

As with The Station Agent, The Visitor is a low - key, naturalistic, beautifully observed character study about the quiet angst of the buttoned - down soul.

But as the film progresses, Vigalondo reveals the wild card up his sleeve: this is less a monster movie and more a character study about the so - called «nice guy» in town (Jason Sudeikis) becoming unable and confronting the failure of his hapless dreams and choosing to wreak havoc instead.

More than anything, Dogman is a character study about the «dog man» and this moment in his life, and it's a superb one at that.

Michael Douglas shines in this intelligent and refreshing character study about getting older.

One minute a fiercely honest character study about a man coping with bipolar disorder, and the next minute a charming rom - com revolving around an amateur dancing competition, the film performs such an amazing tightrope act that it's really to Russell's credit that it doesn't come crashing down like a house of cards.

What the film lacks in narrative coherence and momentum, rookie director Jerome Reybaud compensates with a layered character study about sexuality and fulfillment, an incisive glimpse into its bucolic setting, and a sometimes playful examination of technology's influence on relationships.

«Shifting smoothly from Heloise's past to her present, Lippman delivers an intense character study about a strong, complex woman whose love for her son compels her to make some desperate choices.»

Not exact matches

It is our civic duty to study the candidates: their past performance and what you have learned about their specific character — not what you think you know about their religion.

This is why Jehovah's Witnesses talk to people about the Bible and offer free home bible studies with material in over «in 659 languages, using 29 alphabets and character sets.

When my new acquaintance discovered that I was a theologian and that I was particularly interested in studying how Romanesque art and architecture illustrated the Augustinian - Anselmian character of the faith of the early Middle Ages — with its profound pessimism about the human condition apart from grace — the conversation sent him into a mood of self - reproach and even to consideration of abandoning his dissertation topic.

I would, however, ask about their studies regarding business plans using other characters as a replacement centerpiece.

The studies of Dweck, Duckworth, and others support conservative claims that individual character should be an important part of policy discussions about poverty.

The methods introduced in this paper, Levitin says, «can be used to study all sorts of things: how athletes organize their thoughts about body movements; how writers organize their thoughts about characters; how painters think about color, form and space.»

It adds a reliable character, increases the utility of available samples, identifies the sex of the turtle without the need to sacrifice imperiled species, and does not make assumptions about the relationship between incubation conditions and the sex ratio,» said Jeanette Wyneken, Ph.D., co-author of the study and a professor of biological sciences in FAU's Charles E. Schmidt College of Science who collaborated on the study with Boris M. Tezak, first author and a FAU graduate student, and Kathleen Guthrie, Ph.D., associate professor of biomedical science in FAU's Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine.

In brief, Price concluded that the groups he studied maintained good health not simply because they were limited to a more primitive environment and lacked industrial foods, but because they had accumulated wisdom about how to select important nutrient - dense foods and possessed the strength of character necessary to procure those foods even when doing so proved difficult.

The level of information about the characters and the story is incredible and is a great case study for anyone wanting to study this and other movies of this genre in general.

director Xavier Beauvois uses the investigation of one crime... to string together a character piece that is as much about the character of a Parisian homicide squad within a police department as it is a study of some of the individuals who comprise it.

This modest film falls into the category of «character study», which generally means there there isn't a real plot or story follow, so much as a brief peek into a life of someone for a while, perhaps in the hope of learning a thing or two about a different mode of life, or as a reflection of our own.

This isn't simply about one man's struggle with society but an astute, psychological character study that ambiguously treads a fine line between redemption and damnation while leaving us to question our interpretation of events.

Back in the»50s, an addicted character study like «The Man With the Golden Arm» was dealing with new, dangerous subject matter (neighborhood church groups got up in arms about it) and it packed a wallop.