Sentences with phrase «ensemble film mother»

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Thoughtful and generous, it's that rare ensemble film that gives its side characters enough room to breathe and grow: Two romantic interests — played by Manchester by the Sea's Lucas Hedges and Call Me by Your Name's Timothée Chalamet, both superb — as well as an upbeat nun (the legendary Lois Smith) stand out in this loving ode to mothers, daughters and the girlhood towns we never fully leave behind.

If the film can be said to centre on anything, it's on Louise's relationships with these two men, though it's actually an ensemble piece which finds ample room for her mother (Marisa Borini, Tedeschi's mother), an alcoholic artist (a well cast Xavier Beauvois), Ludovic's girlfriend and Nathan's parents.

Thoughtful and generous, it's that rare ensemble film that gives its side characters enough room to breathe and grow: Two romantic interests — played by Lucas Hedges and Timothée Chalamet, both superb — as well as an upbeat nun (the legendary Lois Smith) stand out in this loving ode to mothers, daughters and the girlhood towns we never fully leave behind.

A highlight of the ensemble in Guillermo Arriaga's recent «The Burning Plain,» Lawrence here handily shoulders the entire film as Ree, a preternaturally pragmatic teenager tasked with mothering her two siblings and tracking down her meth - cooking dad father when the creditors come knocking.

Indeed his last film, «Cosmopolis» (his first team - up with star Robert Pattinson who returns here in a pretty amazing ensemble) made it onto the Croisette in 2012 and this one has an even more appealing premise: it's a twisted Hollywood story following two former child stars and their run - ins with drugs, pyromania and a movie star haunted by her dead mother.

While Antonio Banderas, Penélope Cruz, and Paz Vega all make small cameos, this is an ensemble picture that's seemingly dedicated to the excellent Spanish character actors that have appeared in Pedro Almodóvar's films over the years, perhaps the three most memorable being Javier Cámara from «Talk To Her,» Lola Dueñas from «Volver» and Cecilia Roth from «All About My Mother.»

I have to agree so for the record, this is a true ensemble film and everybody in it is brilliant — Rosemarie DeWitt as Rachel, Bill Irwin as the girls» father, Debra Winger as their mother, Tunde Adebimpe as Rachel's fiancee, Mather Zickel as the best man... the list goes on.

Given his dual roles of Nick Twisp and Francois Dillinger, there's no question that Michael Cera is the star of «Youth in Revolt,» but the film — which, for the record, hits DVD on June 15 — surrounds him with a heck of an ensemble, one which includes Zach Galifianakis, Justin Long, Steve Buscemi, Portia Doubleday, Ray Liotta, M. Emmet Walsh, Fred Willard, and, as Nick's mother, Jean Smart.

Blair may seem perpetually on the verge of tears but she pulls off the film's best lines amid a fine ensemble cast: Mia Farrow has come out of a semi-retirement to play Abe's mother, while Christopher Walken, who could still stare down an owl, is Abe's father — and employer.

Praise has already been heaped on just about everyone in the film's stellar ensemble, from the fiercely - committed Naomie Harris as Chiron's junkie mother to Trevante Rhodes and André Holland, who meticulously telegraph a profound and heart - stopping romance as adult versions of Chiron and his estranged friend / lost love, Kevin.

The «Novitiate» ensemble: For her first film, director Margaret Betts guides an entire ensemble to remarkable performances — Margaret Qualley, Dianna Agron, Rebecca Dayan, Julianne Nicholson and especially Melissa Leo, as the Reverend Mother.

Michelle Williams as Lee's ex-wife and Gretchen Mol as Patrick's estranged mother round out the finest ensemble cast in any film released this year, but Affleck's turn as a man fundamentally changed by heartbreak has earned him a Golden Globe and a well - deserved place at the front of the Oscar race.

In 2010 alone, he made three of his films back - to - back, working with his ensemble actors Teresa Sánchez and Gabino Rodríguez, who play mother and son in most of them.