Sentences with phrase «emigrant saga»
As David, the son of Korean immigrants, navigates his nascent desire, the film rests not on eroticism per se, but on the connective tissue it weaves among sexual and other identities: Spa Night recombines elements of the emigrant saga and the coming - of - age story into a searching, fresh - faced portrait, highlighting in the process the genres» keen correspondences.
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Masterful Irish novelist Colm Tóibín's sweeping saga of a reluctant emigrant and her unexpected romance in America was adapted into an eponymous film starring young Saoirse Ronan.