Sentences with phrase «classical tragedy»

This first American movie by the absurdist Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos («The Lobster», «Dogtooth») sees him throw the full weight of classical tragedy at a suburban family.

Classical tragedy mixed with moderate sadism and Polanski - ish surrealism, upstart filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos» latest test of audience endurance plays like «Sophie's Choice» by way of «The Burbs».

The first American movie by absurdist Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, Dogtooth) sees him throwing the full weight of classical tragedy at a suburban family.

The film is clearly rooted in classical tragedy, and there's something noticeably Shakespearean about the manner in which the plot coyly unravels.

The burdens of the book are to establish that television and movies are nihilistic; they display the inherent tendency of democratic liberalism towards nihilism; they remove any possibility for classical tragedy or comedy; and they hold up «demonic antiheroes» such as Hannibal Lecter for our emulation.

The Turkish critic Atilla Dorsay has written of the director's films as classical tragedies.

Inventively structured, the documentary alternates between her early adulthood and her final months, her sad demise casting a shadow over the story and giving the film an air of classical tragedy.

Classical tragedy mixed with moderate sadism and Polanski - ish surrealism, upstart filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos» latest test of audience endurance plays like Sophie's Choice by way of the «burbs.

In a throwback to the classical tragedy, severe gift from Greece and Rome, the judiciary, suffused with sleaze and rumours of sleaze, is about committing institutional suicide.

Hubris — an excess of pride and confidence — is central to any classical tragedy.

And, true to the form of a classical tragedy, one of the hero's greatest strengths, a biological pedigree, may contain the seeds of the B. thuringiensis toxin's undoing.

By the time Thanos and Gamora's relationship truly comes into focus, the film has rather remarkably shifted from a mood of larky fun to one of classical tragedy, not an inconsiderable feat in a comic book - derived entertainment.

The filmmaker was a last minute edition at the 2015 edition of the Sundance film festival with her debut film (we called it «too convenient, and ultimately, not very provocative, Little Accidents feels like a dysthymic version of classical tragedy, with a bright streak of classism threaded throughout.»

In a novel whose title invokes the grand sweep of an epic, there shouldn't be any surprise when the domestic tale leaps into mythic territory: bouts of hubris, betrayal and thwarted power that spring from the pages of classical tragedies.

Ethel Schwabacher's big red Antigone I (1958), for example — the first painting seen upon entering the exhibition — is a riot of offbeat color juxtapositions and tightly wrought gesticulation that carries the dramatic conflict of the classical tragedy beyond its narrative and into the wide - open realm of abstraction.

This most recent decision quotes one of the many judges who have been involved in the case commented, as far back as 1980, as having described the parties as «figures in a classical tragedy, bent upon destroying that which surrounds them and especially their monetary inheritance».