Sentences with phrase «enjoyable black comedy»

There's a plethora of excellent scenes and hilarious characters throughout Van Dormael's riotously enjoyable black comedy and he delivers it with such playfulness that it's hard not to be swept along with its creative enthusiasm.

Not exact matches

9:35 am — Sundance — A Girl Cut in Two One of the last films from great French director Claude Chabrol before his death, with Ludivine Sagnier as an up - and - coming TV personality faced with choosing between two men — with Chabrol at the helm, you know there's more than that to it, and his touch for black comedy thrillers should make this one an enjoyable watch.

Writer - director Shane Black's horribly enjoyable action comedy The Nice Guys is an jauntily arch return to this tradition, the story of two dishevelled and incompetent private detectives in 1970s Los Angeles — played by Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling — who have been expensively tasked with solving the mystery surrounding the death of a missing porn actress, and what other kind of fascinatingly damaged female character can there be?

The Pretty One, the first full length feature from AFI grad Jenée LeMarque from her Black List darling script, seems to have fallen into a few of these indie comedy traps, with it's subtlety and filtered reality, but was no less enjoyable to view, and sweet in it's presentation.

Writer - director team Jean - Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro's endlessly inventive and wildly enjoyable post-apocalyptic black comedy follows a sinister butcher and the circus clown who becomes his nemesis.

Writer - director team Jean - Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro endlessly inventive and wildly enjoyable post-apocalyptic black comedy follows a sinister butcher and the circus clown who becomes his nemesis.