Sentences with phrase «emotional power»

The body on screen is intrinsic to the physical and emotional power of the cinema.
There's a reservoir of emotional power in her that's sort of stunning.
It was that raw emotional power that drew me.
The result is a character - driven mystery of considerable emotional power, often harrowing and always compelling.
This fuzzy - minded drama fails to build much emotional power.
They achieve greater emotional power and conceptual ambiguity than most of what came between.
It's the stark, life - affirming contrast that gives this film its unexpected emotional power.
His ocean possesses a strong physical and emotional power because of this.
Their claim that it's a case of «when» and not «if» for Scottish independence has a lot of emotional power north of the border.
Never quite builds the compulsive emotional power it needs to be an unforgettable personal drama.
But both of these properties offer a depth of storytelling and emotional power seen so little in other media.
To later viewers, the original idea often becomes purely theoretical, understandable intellectually but without its inaugural emotional power.
As a result, The Prayer lacks that raw emotional power, which made me a bit ashamed to admit - is the positive really less impactful than the negative?
It demonstrates the raw, emotional power of his iconic drip paintings while looking forward to an entirely new series, all the while retaining an underlying lyrical beauty.
It's a charge freighted with emotional power in an area the senator accurately describes as suffering a depression.
The rarest of sequels that eclipses its forebear for emotional power, James Whale's follow - up to his global sensation upped the voltage considerably.
As we developed the idea we realised that we could get at something with real emotional power through the telling of this story.
The Miracle Season This film about a championship girls» volleyball team beset by tragedy, based on a true story, lacks momentum as a sports film but holds emotional power as a drama.
Keenly observed and laced with humor, Gross has constructed a narrative whose emotional power derives from the accumulation of details, some of which at first appear to be insignificant, even trivial.
The Miracle Season This true story - based film about a championship girls» volleyball team beset by tragedy lacks momentum as a sports film but holds emotional power as a drama.
A gripping story of loss, hope, regret and resignation, told with simmering emotional power by director Christian Petzold.
Along with director and co-writer Craig Johnson, they regaled me with a sharp stream - of - consciousness humor along with some equally sharp observations about the nature of humor, the extra pressure Hader puts on himself when doing drama, and those unexpectedly intense moments that come from doing an indie film of enormous emotional power, moments that can leave some members of the film crew in tears.
This wondrous story of a six - year - old girl spending her summer messing around with her friends in the shadow of Disney World never fully comprehending how tenuous the situation is for both her and her twenty - something single mother, this film treats its characters with such empathetic understanding and nonjudgmental grace the inherent emotional power fueling things ends up being monumental.
Like the best episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the film knows how to wield emotional power, exaggerating the anxieties of its adolescent heroes until they become actual threats to their existence.
It does so with such emotional power and sincerity that makes Timbuktu one of the year's most unforgettable film experiences.
But the original one possesses a rare emotional power — of a romance between an actress and a prehistoric ape — that's hard to top.
When it opened, however, its undeniable emotional power silenced most naysayers.
It captures the excitement of a breaking star, it generates a raw and unsettling emotional power and it honors the aesthetic of hip - hop in way that's never quite been done on film before.
The same can be said about some of the best moments of «Better Things,» a show that built to surprisingly strong emotional power for this viewer.
«I will flash forward or bring a shot back because the scene may have been shot more conventionally, and I need to add that edge back, that emotional power back
It should come as no surprise to find the PCA raising objections to a work whose emotional power stems primarily from a critique of this.
That Marion Cotillard is generating serious awards buzz for her performance in the small - scale Belgian drama Two Days, One Night is a testament to the film's quiet emotional power.
The locked - away Cass, meanwhile, has grown into a cultured teenager (Alexia Fast) with a measure of emotional power over the wealthy pedophile captor (Kevin Durand) who is no longer attracted to her.
It is always impressive to see how Haneke can be so subtle and forceful as with this magnificent and devastating oeuvre about aging, devotion, love and death - a film that surprises us for its deep tenderness and honesty while striking us with an overwhelming emotional power.
This might have been a savvy satire on today's celebrity - struck media culture, but Niccol unfolds the story at a lumbering pace, peppered with not - funny gags and dramatic scenes that build little emotional power.
But the sentiment is frequently underplayed to one degree or another, and part of the film's considerable emotional power comes from a sense of how much sentiment the characters, and Bartlett in particular, are holding back.
Still, the movie doesn't seem to explore any new territory for Anderson, and it ever really reaches the poignancy or oblique emotional power of his earlier films.
potential folly, but it would prove to be one of high points of his legendary career — a viewing experience of stunning emotional power utterly devoid of the usual chilly detachment that marked his films.
That makes for a cold, pretty, delicate movie — one that too often relies on scene - stealing production design or the overwhelmingly insipid score for its otherwise strikingly absent emotional power.
The script, by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, adds the requisite doses of off - kilter Marvel humor, but it lacks emotional power to match the graphic thrills.
But, as La La Land demonstrates, a movie musical starring Emma Stone has imaginative and emotional powers beyond even that.
Shot in three takes on consecutive nights, with the third take functioning as the movie, Victoria is an astonishing work of cinema and a film of huge emotional power.
I mean that literally and figuratively, because Allen and Vittorio Storaro use light and color in a way that is stunning in and of itself but also integral to the mounting emotional power of the film.
If this adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's 1932 classic of Scottish literature doesn't always escape a feeling of aesthetic and dramatic conventionality, the film is nevertheless so visually resplendent, beautifully acted, and deeply felt that it achieves a devastating cumulative emotional power nevertheless.
The mundane morphs into moments of shattering emotional power.
«Band Aid» is a quirky indie with a charming premise, endearing performances, and surprising emotional power.
As a married couple who have difficulty conceiving the child that the husband's mother has demanded they produce to ensure the continuity of the patriarchal line, Danai Gurira and Isaach De Bankolé deliver performances of remarkable emotional power and subtlety.
1 From this point of view, the relationship between genders becomes extremely meaningful, as representing the relation between the human emotional power, specific to women, and the human physical power, specific to men.

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