Sentences with phrase «emotional authenticity»

The terrific cast and fine ensemble acting supply vital emotional authenticity.

At Sydney Film Festival, Lidiya Josifova caught up with Teona Strugar Mitevska to talk about the socio - political and economic issues plaguing Macedonia, achieving emotional authenticity in her work, and the avenues for the distribution of Macedonian cinema.

Even when the the music swells and people talk through their problems to reach unremarkable conclusions, there's an undercurrent of emotional authenticity.

Hope made an interesting point about distinguishing between truth and honesty, defining truth as factual accuracy and honesty as emotional authenticity.

The actors bring emotional authenticity to the aftermath of trauma, but despite that and the handsome cinematography, there is also a persistent phoniness.

«The Big Sick» --- A complex romantic comedy teeming with emotional authenticity gets packaged as a big - screen rom - com based on the actual romance between Chicago Pakistani stand - up comic Kumail Nanjiani (playing himself) and white, Christian Chicago writer Emily Gordon (Zoe Kazan).

One only has to compare Alex of Venice to something like Zach Braff's Wish I Was Here to see that the undermining crutch of comic quirk does nothing more than detract from the honest emotional authenticity of such films.

Like Jandreau, Scott is re-enacting his own story, and the moments of them together at Lane's rehabilitation center — particularly a devastating scene in which Brady helps Lane ride a makeshift «horse» during a therapy session — have a staggering emotional authenticity.

Sophisticated Helen is a successful writer, but she yearns for raw emotional authenticity, which she attempts to find through a twisted pas de deux with an obscene phone caller — whom she doesn't know is her slobby but completely innocuous neighbor Allen (Phillip Seymour Hoffman), who, in turn, is quietly pursued by his other, far less glam neighbor, Kristina (Camryn Manheim).

Operating within a unique two - year span of unprecedented American politics and media coverage, the artists contend with a new age of documentary anxiety in which truth, consequence, and reality bend under the weight of perceived emotional authenticity.

With the five panels of the White Paintings, he opened the door to minimalism, breaking away from the ruling cult of abstract expressionism and its macho insistence on emotional authenticity.

It seems strange to be talking to a contemporary artist about emotional authenticity, about representation, and about the influence of Degas and Manet rather than Warhol and Joseph Beuys.

Builds emotional authenticity and trust in the relationship to move up and out of the difficulty.

Page's subplot is the most tender, and a scene in which McNairy attempts to console her without encouraging her (which may have been at least partially improvised) achieves a level of emotional authenticity that the rest of Touchy Feely sorely lacks.

Emergent leaders call for «missional re-understanding of Jesus - followership and Christ - focus imbued with passionate creativity and emotional authenticity,» whatever that means:

Writer / director Matt Ruskin, who worked closely to earn the trust of the real Colin Warner, imbues this film with a gifted touch and emotional authenticity to shed light on a painful personal story — and on a horrifying systemic issue.

What it does have is an emotional authenticity and, thanks to Jonathan Demme's direction, a rock & roll attitude that infuses its tale with a special kind of life.

All the films that push off needlessly surly adolescents or histrionics in lieu of genuine pubescent discord could stand to learn a thing or three from the smart, modulated set - up of Zathura and the emotional authenticity that subsequently flows naturally.

The well - intentioned film generates some powerful moments and intriguing character dynamics, yet the emotional authenticity in the screenplay by director Kurt Voelker is compromised by familiarity and contrived catharsis.

As spotlessly formal as an official State Portrait, it benefits from being beautifully lit and the sight lines convey an emotional authenticity that previous versions have lacked.

Along with these superb character actors and others such as SZ Sakall (Carl, Rick's fond maitre d') and John Qualen (Berger, the Norwegian resistance man), Wallis peopled the film with European refugees who gave the film texture and emotional authenticity.

The view from TIFF: Reiser and director Jonathan Levine may be guilty of making Reiser's life unfold too much like a movie, but the irresistible mix of sentimentality and gallows humor counteract the occasional lapses in emotional authenticity.

Hernandez has never acted before, and perhaps because of this, her rough interactions with Cornish have an emotional authenticity that's exceedingly rare.

This emotional authenticity might be easy to overlook because Johnson seems obsessed with replicating Hammett's every stylistic stroke.

«Albert captures the turbulent thirties and forties with affecting detail, writing a novel notable not only for its emotional authenticity, but for its careful historicity.

So, like Brooks encourages, I decided to «rebel against the emotional authenticity that holds me back from bliss,» turned toward my husband and said, «You are right, that was amazing.