Sentences with phrase «dark character study»

In the narrative competition was Christine, Antonio Campos's dark character study, featuring a largely unrecognizable Rebecca Hall as the tragic figure.

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.

Not exact matches

This is a dark, character study, dramedy.

This dark comedy from writer / director Martin McDonagh, the Englishman who made «In Bruges,» is a bitingly told character study that goes beyond Southern stereotypes to delve into rape culture, cover - ups, grief and criminality on all sides.

The film by the Zellner brothers is initially just an odd character study but it becomes something darker and more philosophical as it progresses, ending on a surprisingly resonant note.

As well as being a laugh out loud slapstick comedy rendered in gorgeous Lego visuals and crammed with DC Easter eggs and visual jokes, The Lego Batman Movie is one of the best character studies of the Dark Knight out there.

It may not be Wright's best film (that honor likely goes to Atonement) nor is it his most exciting (I'm a huge Hannah stan personally) and it's very far from his lower - tier material (The Soloist, Pan) but Darkest Hour sees the English auteur flexing his muscles in new and exciting ways, turning historical nonfiction into a calculated character study, an intoxicating courtroom drama and an electrifying thriller in its own right.

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.

The film's trailer hints that film will be a dark satire, lush period film and a complex character study of Zama's paranoia - fueled descent, all mixed up into one, which is what is to be expected of the Argentinian director who has perfected walking a tightrope in terms of tone and genre in her not - always - easy to categorize body of work.

Dark, efficient character studies that play out with this level skill are few and far between.

Done differently, Mr. Brooks could have been a more serious film, perhaps a character study, with hints of dark humor thrown in for good measure.

Ultimately, Thoroughbreds proves to be an odd character study, that's also a dark and edgy, yet somehow fun, ride.

FANNY AND ALEXANDER (1982): Ingmar Bergman's return to childhood and farewell to cinema masterfully balances lightness and dark amid a poignant tapestry of character studies that highlight the transformative power of art and the realization that to live life fully one also must accept death.

Instead, he arrives at a state of profound indifference, as «Winter Sleep» shifts from a restrained character study on the darker ramifications of affluence as its solitary protagonist eventually finds himself too rich to care.

INTO THE WATER can be considered a character study, where the «character» is a town with a dark past.