There is a sense that the darkness could be darker — at times it is almost tainted by
the dreamlike beauty — but then not all dreams are nightmares and it does give the feeling of being mid-state between the waking world and whatever lies beyond.
From the epic grandeur of Big Sur to the Mediterranean style stretch of Santa Barbara coastline, nicknamed «the American Riviera,» this region of picturesque hamlets, jagged sea cliffs and rolling wine country has long attracted, not surprisingly, writers and artists mesmerised by
its dreamlike beauty.
It's with brute savagery and
dreamlike beauty that director / co-writer Alejandro González Iñárritu (director of last year's best film, Birdman) brings this familiar tale roaring to life.
Not exact matches
Classic films like Carol Reed's 1949 film - noir masterpiece The Third Man and Jean Cocteau's
dreamlike interpretation of
Beauty and the Beast from 1946 have been sublime highlights of my festival roster so far, as has the German / Polish family film Winter's Daughter.
Blood's stunning centrepiece — a newly struck oil gusher that erupts into a fountain of flame — echoes the hellish
beauty of the locust holocaust in Terrence Malick's just - as -
dreamlike Days Of Heaven.
- Publishers Weekly «Barry's prose has a
dreamlike quality... The raw elegance of his storytelling has its own
beauty.»
Accompanied by a musical score by composer Miguel d'Oliveira, Falling explores the
beauty and unexpected drama of our everyday surroundings, transforming aspects of the natural world into a
dreamlike state.
Ross Bleckner is a highly influential New York artist whose
dreamlike paintings hover between representation and abstraction and explore issues of loss, change, memory, and the fleeting
beauty of life.
Hovering between the mundane and the
dreamlike, Winstanley's images tease out
beauty from the generic spaces of modern life.
The
beauty of his work, its
dreamlike, almost theatrical rationality, lies far beyond the reach of accuracy and the simple demands of representation.