Sentences with phrase «dreamlike tone»

Documentary filmmaker Jeremiah Zagar appears to have embraced the dreamlike tone of the novel, which tells the story of three brothers and how one tries to escape the damaging legacy of their father.

The narrative isn't entirely comprehensible on one viewing, but the torrent of emotions, the dreamlike tone and the gorgeous cinematography makes for an unforgettable story of human connection in the face of an unfeeling and at times enormously unfair and mystifying world.

The film's general strangeness, deadpan humour and dreamlike tone capture the bewildering events that follow as she goes to live in a witch camp.

Using a looped - over approach to the sound, only rarely do we actually see the characters speak the words we hear, which contributes to a fractured, dreamlike tone, a kind of black - magic - realism (imagine an anti- «Beasts of the Southern Wild» designed not to inspire wonder, but stomach - churning dread).

Not exact matches

The film works best as a tone poem with a dreamlike haziness; providing too much clarity would ruin it.

What distinguishes Point Blank from other revenge thrillers is its dreamlike, otherworldly tone.

Yet it's in style and tone that the film comes alive, its prowling, dreamlike atmosphere, down - to - earth performances and unerring visual confidence echoing early Terrence Malick or the best of Harmony Korine.

Life After Life, the new Kate Atkinson novel about a woman fated to live her life over and over again: I was drawn to the book's highly evocative premise, and became enchanted with the rational tone employed for such a dreamlike topic.