Sentences with phrase «emotional center of the film»

Still, there are nice details for fans as the actors and producers examine the characters — Emma Thomas describes Alfred as the emotional center of the films — and Tom Hardy reveals his excitement at first seeing Christian Bale in the makeup chair.

Gosling and de Armas are the emotional center of the film, even though we're constantly aware it's not a real relationship, but an idealized one that starts with Joi resembling a fabulously dressed and perfectly coiffed 1950s American housewife.

Derick Martini says Clive is, «the Yoda of love, the emotional center of the film.»

The story begins and ends with her, and she is clearly the emotional center of the film.

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The film changes a few bits from the book, including making Jo - Jo the shirker into the Mayor's son, giving the film a deeper emotional center, serving as an additional relationship to go with the bond between Horton and the mayor, but most of the rest of the story is still in place, held together by Charles Osgood's narration, which has just the right effect.

And while the movie's obvious highlight comes with Roma's brutal dressing - down of Kevin Spacey's officious manager, Mamet's screenplay affords virtually all of the actors their moment in the sun - with Lemmon's sad - sack of a character ultimately standing as the film's emotional center (ie despite his exceedingly slimy actions, Levene becomes a figure worthy of the viewer's sympathy).

Lancaster and Scofield both give respectful performances which become the fulcrum of the film's emotional center.

Even though Bigelow had to face some harsh criticism from women who saw Strange Days as an anti-women film because of the shocking violence on display, it could be argued Strange Days is a pure feminist picture, as Angela Bassett's Mace is a physically imposing, capable, intelligent yet distinctly feminine character who might be the supporting pillar of Ralph Fiennes» lost soul, but in some ways remains the emotional center of the whole film.

Fonseca has the look of a star, Stoltz is the film's unstable emotional center, and Connor and even the children are solid.

Stalwart yet yielding as the Hollar family's gimlet - eyed emotional center of gravity, Martindale anchors the film just as her character anchors her husband and sons, infusing her scenes with a magnetic combination of warmth and pragmatism.

From his career - defining start with the Coen Brothers on 1984's «Blood Simple,» Burwell's music's has prolifically pushed the emotional possibilities of the art, no more so now than with three films centered on the theme of children.

At the film's center, though, Portman's character impresses as both a clever theoretical construction (the wife of a president who devoted her time in the White House to resuscitating the memories of presidents past, finding herself suddenly assuming the role of assuring her own husband's historical memory) and a figure of immense emotional weight.

Documentarian Laura Poitras not only offers a complete overview of all the facts but gets under the skin of the issue by closely tracking the emotional transformation of the controversial figure at the center of her film.

Baker captures the joy, the anguish, the good times and bad, making a stunningly emotional mosaic that just this morning became a nominee for the first major award ceremony of the year, the independent film - centered Gotham Awards.

uuu Glowingly filmed adaptation of Jane Austen's late novel about life and love in 19th - century England, centering on the emotional life of a young woman who reencounters an attractive man she once spurned on the advice of a misguided friend.

Each, after all, is arguably the emotional center of her respective film.

The film presents that journey as a series of false starts (An episode with three very talkative and very, very dense trolls is a highlight and offers the first instance of a few dei ex machina within the story; Tolkien, obviously aware of his proclivity for using the device, invented a new word — eucatastrophe — as a substitute), and it's not until the company leaves Rivendell that the narrative finds its footing and emotional center.

It's a well - edited piece that doesn't spoil any of the films but is still able to bring across each movie's emotional center.

In a performance as broadly comic as it is genuinely felt, the Oscar - winning actress provides a raucous center of gravity while also being the film's emotional compass.

But Bertolucci's film, which centers on the emotional anguish of an American man in Paris who begins an anonymous and transgressive affair in a empty, dilapidated Paris flat, was no doubt a major influence on Breillat's representation of sexuality.