Sentences with phrase «class malaise»

This doc about bile - spilling anarcho - rockers Sleaford Mods is also an encapsulation of working class malaise.

In Travis one finds the seeds of Schrader's obsessions: penitence, sin, tortured veterans, working - class malaise, men with complicated relationships with sex.

A taut, involving drama centered around the mysterious disappearance of a young woman, About Elly confirms director Asghar Farhadi as a major talent in Iranian cinema whose ability to chronicle the middle - class malaise of his society is practically unrivaled.

He spoke for 15 minutes and 30 seconds, beating up on Republicans who, he said, played on division and blamed immigrants or some other for the current middle - class malaise.

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Italy's political class has struggled to deal with the underlying causes of the country's malaise, including a loss of international competitiveness and the stagnant productivity of its business sector that began well before the European financial crisis of recent years.

In Haneke's formally rigorous, narratively minimalist «Happy End,» multiple generations of a French industrialist family have almost become blind to the working man, a malaise that the two - time Palme d'Or winner suggests creates disconnection not only toward the North African immigrants and other working - class people who wait on them but among each other.

The film teases the audience with clues and foreboding hints at the causes of the malaise, but never offers anything concrete or literal, instead creating a rich allegorical framework from which an endless array of fascinating questions are raised as to how power may be intermingled with issues such as history, education, class, family, gender, sexuality and ultimately the impossibility of human communication and understanding.

Over the course of several weeks, Elizabeth and Jamie — who has no interest in education and wandered into Elizabeth's class out of sheer malaise — develop a tenuous bond, forged over diner food and Elizabeth's complaints about her four - hour commute.

These include the varying comforts and malaise of the «urban haute bourgeoisie» in Metropolitan (1990); how certain class cultures clash with political realities abroad in Barcelona (1994); and the collapse of the utopian ideals of disco in The Last Days of Disco (1996).

Though once upon a time seeing Ben Stiller star in a serious - ish film about middle - class, middle - aged malaise was a refreshing rebuke to his broader work in studio comedy, the novelty has begun to wear off in recent years following his repeated — and arguably, repetitive — collaborations with bourgeois angst maestro Noah Baumbach (Greenberg, While We're Young, The Meyerowitz Stories).

We just hope that Ford avoids a repeat of the malaise that kept the current Focus from remaining world - class.