Sentences with phrase «dreamlike quality»

Bereft of the eerie, dreamlike quality of Gans» film, this is just plain lazy filmmaking, which, when it comes to horror films adapted from video games, means: Expect a sequel.

Frequently employing the materials of heavy industry to house living ecological elements such as plants and grass, she presents transgressive architectural forms with dreamlike qualities.

In fact, the first half of the film (chronicling Ellis and Neckbone's meeting and bonding with Mud) has an almost dreamlike quality to its gorgeous iconography and mise - en - scene composition.

Variety's Peter Debruge applauded «the striking Steadicam lensing by gifted female d.p. Autumn Durald [which] buffers everything from harsh realism, allowing a slightly dreamlike quality into the proceedings.»

There is a light, translucent quality to Thien's prose that casts a certain dreamlike quality on the tale, and yet the magnetic plot will keep the reader's interest through the end.

The film uses dreamlike quality to evoke youth subculture of the 1970s, and Billy Crudup is perfectlt cast as a man who believes he possesses healing powers and wants to do good, but his attempts always end disastrously

Slow West, however, abandons in large part the grittiness of the Western in favour of a more dreamlike quality embodied in the narrative and the camerawork.

Some sequences, including an episode in a shopping centre where Christian's daughters go missing, have the same dreamlike quality as the deadpan tableaux of the Swedish master Roy Andersson, which helps pad the film's jabbier, more Haneke - like edges.

The only time she really comes alive is when Tully is around, and those scenes have their own dreamlike quality to them.

But the narrative's dreamlike qualities do not eclipse Barry's determination to scrutinise the less travelled byways of history and to give a voice to their buffeted, battered but nonetheless enduring victims.»

The beautiful, dreamlike quality of The Returned is down to two things: the stunning cinematography, including some majestic panoramic vistas, and Mogwai's tense and haunting soundtrack.

Employing a nonlinear narrative that shimmers with a certain dreamlike quality, Wolves interweaves the lives of these characters in complex and unexpected ways.

Bioluminescence plays a role in both, and the two share a dreamlike quality that gets stronger the further along you go.

In 1961, when President Kennedy declared that the United States would send a man to the moon by the decade's end, those words, too, had a dreamlike quality.

This hypnotic urban poem on masculinity, violence and wisdom may be Jarmusch's most likeable picture — as funny and dark as anything Tarantino has ever filmed, but with a surreal, dreamlike quality and a soul full of integrity.

Remarkably, it pulls off the difficult task of being a revisionist Western with ease, taking its audience along with a dreamlike quality unique in the genre.

Where his earlier films approximated dreams, Anticipation of the Night captures the dreamlike quality of raw experience, the world as it happens and is taken in and understood, willy - nilly.

Ironically, this visual clarity only exacerbates a dreamlike quality, as the outer world indicates the repressed inner world that truly concerns Certain Women.

The film's minimal dialogue and meditative images give it a mesmerizing, dreamlike quality, and yet images of the sinking ship and of Alec teaching the horse to eat out of his hand are also touchingly realistic.

The girls are in various states of undress; steam from the shower creates a dreamlike quality, shrouding the scene, fogging up the lens.

Volumes One and Two may have had viewers scratching their heads, and this portion of the film is by no means conventional, but there's a musicality and dreamlike quality to The Enchanted One which resonates long after a tremendous tracking shot of Chico Chapas draws this sprawling epic to a close.

Perhaps it's the attempt at the odd, dreamlike quality that makes Passion Play so weird and off - putting.

All these faces, among many others, coming and going all add to the confusion of war and several long, dialogue - free scenes, paint a dreamlike quality to the film.

We wanted that fiction flavor, and a touch of dreamlike quality.

«We wanted a touch of a dreamlike quality that can become a nightmare: although the film has bright, beautiful colours, it's also extremely brutal in the violence Marina faces.»

The tale of an orphan kidnapped by a large - eared giant (the skillfully motion - captured Mark Rylance) has a dreamlike quality that allows Spielberg to stage some of his trippiest, borderline psychedelic imagery, along with some really elaborate CGI - assisted fart jokes.

The story bears more than passing resemblance to Peter Weir's drama «Picnic at Hanging Rock,» a 1975 Australian drama with which «Strangerland» shares a dreamlike quality.

This heightens the dreamlike quality of the film.

Future events and memories fade into the narrative, adding a dreamlike quality to the viewing experience.

Gladly, those 2.40:1 visuals look their best on Blu - ray, showing off the striking colors and irregular compositions that lend the film a dreamlike quality.

At times, the technique of animating van Gogh paintings has a dreamlike quality, and putting the flashbacks in black - and - white is a smart choice, creating a fascinating hybrid of monochrome impasto and the silky vibe of pre-Technicolor cinema.

As in his previous work, Morrison turned to decaying archival footage of the actual flood to convey the story of the flood, its deterioration lending a poignant, faraway, dreamlike quality to the project.

- Publishers Weekly «Barry's prose has a dreamlike quality... The raw elegance of his storytelling has its own beauty.»

This novel has almost a dreamlike quality to it and I really can not decide if it was brilliant or just pedantic, in the end I decided that regardless the prose is superb and I wanted to see where it ended..

There is such a wonderful brightness to Linda's photos, and they too have that dreamlike quality that I just adore.

It was in the punchout ring and definitely had a dreamlike quality to it.

The game world does have a dreamlike quality to it, but while the use of color works, the pixelation of the graphics make this look a bit like an early 3D title from the Playstation 1 era.

These brightly coloured facades tower over the visitors, but as the material of the prints is almost opaque, this lends a dreamlike quality to the space, rather than a domineering atmosphere.

In some works, the softness of his painting style and the candy - like colors add to the mystical, dreamlike quality of the feathery forests and twinkling skies.

Bonnard preferred to work from memory, using drawings as a reference, and his paintings are often characterized by a dreamlike quality.

There's an enigmatic, dreamlike quality to the whole installation, and it's tinged by an affecting sadness.

There's a dreamlike quality to these works that give them a kind of uncanny quality.

Although he predominantly portrays the urban settings of New York City and its people, he avoids including famous landmarks, and most of his works feature a particular kind of isolation or dreamlike quality, like Hopper's work.

The Crow exhibition catalog states that the pieces «have a dreamlike quality reminiscent of surrealist explorations of the unconscious that melds, unexpectedly, with visible brushstrokes and the traces of swift, decisive action.»

The tree portraits are solid yet surreal while the pollinator paintings have a soft and dreamlike quality.

The fog featured in many of his drawings helps to mend and create a more cohesive illustration and adds a dreamlike quality to his sketches.