Sentences with phrase «drama out of the festival»

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The liturgical churches, with their drama of the church year and their abundance of symbolic rites and festivals, have a great deal to teach the symbol - poor Protestant groups who, in their zeal for pure religion have thrown out the baby with the bathwater.

This three - part drama looking at the childhood, adolescence and adulthood of a gay black man from a tough part of Miami has been getting rave reactions out of the Telluride and Toronto film festivals.

Östlund came to international prominence at Cannes with his 2014 drama, «Force Majeure,» which premiered in the festival's out - of - competition Un Certain Regard sidebar.

Elsewhere there's a Hungarian superpower drama called Jupiter's Moon that could be something out of the box for this often more earthbound festival.

By the end of the festival, both companies had secured the rights to multiple titles, with Amazon paying out a whopping $ 10m for Casey Affleck drama Manchester By The Sea, beating off interest from Fox and Universal.

Director Andrew Haigh (whose earlier relationship drama, Weekend, swept up twenty wins on the festival circuit) beautifully teases them out, encompassing both significant and trivial life choices in moments of warm conversation and lonely meditation.

Martin plays Elliot Teichberg, an interior designer who offers to help out the promoters of Woodstock when they lose their permit to have the concert (more...) Demetri Martin stars in this historical comedy - drama about the celebrated 1969 festival of peace and love.

One of the sleeper hits of the fall - festival season has been Noah Baumbach's «Frances Ha,» which in a climate of serious award - season dramas has stood out as a lighter but still thoughtful look at twentysomething life.

Perhaps the biggest surprise of the festival so far has been Craig Johnson's The Skeleton Twins, which from movie stills ostensibly appears to be a star vehicle for SNL all - stars Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig, but actually turns out to be an unexpectedly affecting sibling drama peppered with funny moments for the comedians to please loyalists.

CANNES, FRANCE — One of the most generous juries at any recent edition of the Cannes film festival handed out prizes Sunday night to 9 of the 20 films in competition, topped by the Golden Palm for Michael Haneke's period drama, «The White Ribbon.»