Sentences with phrase «compelling than fiction»

I decided it was proof the truth was way more compelling than fiction.

Proving fact is more compelling than fiction; Apollo 13 offers a great look at space history, sure to whet your family's appetite for this subject.

Proving that real life can often be stranger and more compelling than fiction, Wild Hearts is actually based on the true story of Sonora Webster.

Not exact matches

Critic Consensus: The Lovers and the Despot offers a compelling — albeit by no means comprehensive — look at one of the more bizarrely stranger - than - fiction episodes in cinematic history.

Critics Consensus: The Lovers and the Despot offers a compelling — albeit by no means comprehensive — look at one of the more bizarrely stranger - than - fiction episodes in cinematic history.

More than science fiction, this film is intriguingly spiritual, while being completely compelling as a film experience.

It's difficult to think of a modern documentary as complex and well put together — not to mention as morally confounding — as Cartel Land, a documentary whose «facts» are stranger, and more compelling, than most fictions about the drug wars.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

Truth is often more compelling to contemplate than fiction.