Sentences with word «farce»

His most celebrated feature, Yoyo (65), is a clever — at times brilliant — comingling of Keaton's physical comedy, Chaplin's pathos, Tati's gentle social observation, and the broader farce of Frank Tashlin.

Frank functions best as farce: it is endlessly amusing watching Fassbender wobble about with that vast head on, half - man, half piñata.

It's the best kind of farce in that, like «Sanders,» it keeps reality percolating just underneath the surface while nearly always defying expectations.

A politician's soiree quickly descends into farce in Sally Potter's star - laden satire, a sharply observed study of love and politics

[There is] the question of the feature - length film as the proper vehicle for farce with continuous belly laughs....

The word «comically» applies here in the loosest, most darkly ironic sense, because while there is an element of farce about the heist itself, the consequences for both men are grave.

However, these items then reduce the gameplay to a complete farce as you swathe through mounds of enemies with little to no effort.

As a minimum, it will continue to show what farce fiat currency has become.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: French Farce from Legendary Director Released on DVD Over the years, Patrice Leconte has proven himself quite adept at plumbing the depths of the human psyche by placing two people with nothing in common in an emotionally - explosive predicament.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Remake of French Farce Arrives on DVD Courtesy of Chris Rock On the surface, it sure looks like Richard Cooper (Chris Rock) is living the American Dream.

jean harlow's notorious sex farce in the 30s that originally enraged the moral code... (barbara stanwyck's «baby face» was released next year.

While we on the matter... what a total farce on contract renewal, even the spuds seem to have got that sorted out — renewing long before time, and not paying out hefty wages either — I believe Kane is their top earner on # 125k, and for someone with an economic degree, how does Wenger not understand that having someone with a long contract makes not only financial sense, but sense in terms of the teams stability as well?

The Irish acting dynasty will be treading the boards at the Olympia Theatre in The Walworth Farce by Enda Walsh.

Domhnall (31), who is currently starring in The Walworth Farce with his dad Brendan and his brother Brian, admits the script attracted him to the movie, which was written and directed by Alex Garland.

Don't be duped, if this premise sounds at all appealing, for Delta Farce is easily one of the worst films released this year.

What was a disorderly midfield setup was turned into farce when Carroll and Ayew replaced Noble and Fernandes leaving a massive gap between defence and the attack minded players.

It's more satire and more sarcasm than just farce, as it brings up the absolute fickleness of human nature (I will NOT be gender specific, though Chekhov, it seems, tried his best).

After Show Boat, Dunne entered the second phase of her movie career as a comedienne, contributing hilarious performances to such screwball farces as Theodora Goes Wild (1936), The Awful Truth (1937), and My Favorite Wife (1940).

The film attempts to juxtapose extremely heightened, broad farce with social satire in a period setting along with dark subject matters such as cannibalism and incest.

The director's latest picture, «She's Funny That Way,» is a screwball comedy that pays tribute to the bedroom farces of Ernst Lubitsch, whose «Cluny Brown» is explicitly referenced in the film.

Blue collar comedy rules the roost with this hilarious farce starring Larry the Cable Guy, Bill Engvall and D.J. Qualls as buddies who are mistaken for Army Reservists and sent to the Middle East - but when they are accidentally dropped into Mexico, they misread the situation and set about trying to «liberate» a besieged village from a demented drug lord.

Despite a heavyweight cast and the solid directing skills of A-list screenwriter David Koepp («Jurassic Park,» «Panic Room,» «Spider - Man»), this charmless farce ends up as another black mark on Depp's recent track record of patchy pet projects.

roles in such farces as The Errand Boy (1961), The Nutty Professor (1963) and Who's Got the Action?.

(It might dawn at some point in the film that this is exactly like an execrable Spanish sex farce called Kilometer 0 — and if it does, hand - in - hand with that recognition is the realization that you've wasted an awful lot of your brain retaining memories of terrible movies.)

«What ensued instead played almost like farce, might have been amusing at a more leisurely moment, and in the end, crystallised that which many of us in fashion have long known, and some of us have resisted: The fight is over, and spectacle slayed fashion,» she wrote.

A noble bit of intervention in real life, but a dubious distraction here, steering «Arthur» from romantic farce to tepid self - help chronicle.

There's little in the way of plot or dialogue to this French - made farce abo...

Further to my above comments, we all remember last season and Wengers own contract «will he stay or will he go» long running farce which so destabilised the club and morale, not to mention our own sanity by having to suffer his inaction and dithering.

MP Steve Baker, a key figure in Vote Leave, said: «It would be a complete farce if ministers had to prove their Eurosceptic credentials before campaigning.»

Nonetheless, the biggest laughs in this surprisingly funny farce don't come courtesy of the predictable antics of the younger generation but from those of the nerdy babysitters who seize on a second chance in life to party with the beer and bikini set, especially Judi (Dratch) who flaunts her newfound sexuality, boasting «I mounted an Abercrombie model who's 19 years - old.»

Had these two characters been in a more intricate and crafty plot, this could have been one of the better farces in recent years.

Considering the almost compulsively static aesthetic of Allen's recent output, it's hard to believe that the director could ever have made such a frenetic slapstick farce as Take the Money and Run.

French farce doesn't mix well with English gooniness.

FINTRAC is the biggest farce going... a meaningless paperwork run around — wasting everyones time and money.

And the bedroom and ballroom farce continues as Guinevere helps Delysia juggle her complicated social schedule and discover the meaning of love.

Now, his artistic activities and storytelling are the point of departure for a group exhibition exploring «what comes after farce.»

Maybe that's why the film often feels like a sex farce played at half - speed, with the more measured pace evoking a sense of pained autumnal reflection.

The pure farce of it all is how the people repeating it don't have the intellectual curiosity to wonder why the amount never changes.

If Just Go With It's storyline sounds vaguely familiar, that's because the script is a mirthless overhaul of Cactus Flower, the hilarious farce for which Goldie Hawn won her only Oscar back in 1970.

As is the film: quick, black comedy is smartly woven seamlessly between the action, successfully toeing the line between farce and action / drama.

In the Loop is a political farce set in London and Washington.

What is that «one of the best manager in the world» farce coming from!!!

It's a type of story that's been told before, but Saulnier makes the crucial decision not to turn Blue Ruin into an out - and - out farce about criminal incompetence; instead, the film's hero is occasionally resourceful, occasionally inept, and at all times out of his depth.

At first, the whole farce is oddly endearing, threatening at times to be as bizarrely compelling as Deadly Premonition.

It appears more like the scene of a Whitehall farce then a government agency operating in the 21st century.»