Sentences with phrase «farce set»

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

So, unfolds My Best Friend, a sinuously intriguing French farce set in and around a Paris often presented from the perspective of a perambulating taxi.

Marius Balchunas's first and only shot at the hyphenate brass ring is a roundelay farce set at a seedy California motel, shot like a television sitcom, and written like a train - wreck.

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Absolutely right there He won't go anywhere because he does what the board wants him to He delivers profit and very low risk and sets expectations at virtually zero so that's the fans don't expect too m7ch and he doesn't have to deliver and the board don't need to spend Its a farce and more importantly a blatant con Every single fan who puts even a penny into the club either through season tickets right the way down to buying a mug or a pen or a shirt is being robbed by a board who care NOTHING for sporting glory and even less for the fans who finance the club There SHOULD be mass walkouts on home games and protests at every turn but, there won't be because the demographic of fans now is of a majority who are not true supporters but millennial who only want to say they attend the ground every other week.

More concerned about Wenger's inability to change anything in play, he appears to carry on with the same set up, Spurs game was a farce, camped in our half against a 2 man team, ridiculous.

The current system is set up as a farce, with a lot of phony «community charity» organizations being set up as phony grass - roots organizations when they are actually conduits for corporate and wealthy donors.

There is no credible science that can, without descending into farce, establish equivalences between different job roles in different settings.

And last year, the abuse sank to farce, as Cuomo set up the WEP while his Republican rival Rob Astorino launched a «Stop Common Core Party.»

Some of the set pieces are truly hilarious, particularly a mini French farce involving a suddenly aborted bachelor party, and a dance duel set in a gay bar.

The stage is set for a good, nasty, slam - bang farce, and «Gringo» makes it about two - thirds of the way there.

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.

Mostly, Dave has fun, and the movie mirrors his mood; you can feel the kick Reitman must have gotten from setting this mellow farce amid the corridors of power.

A Farewell to Fools (PG - 13 for brief profanity and a violent image) World War II farce, set in a simple Romanian village, highlighting Nazi occupiers» search for the perpetrator after the body of a German soldier is discovered by a local boy (Bogdan Iancu).

Much of its domestic comedy - meets - espionage thriller set - up was actually cribbed from the 1991 French farce La Totale!

Support the Girls, a title that's a nod to both the oversexualized nature of its setting and the resolute bonds of sisterhood packages itself as a campy workplace farce, but it packs a stageplay's worth of dramatic heft into its barebones runtime.

From the very first shot of a sour - pussed, bedraggled Midler getting into the vehicle in which she'll meet her maker, Nick Gomez sets the tone for his intensely mean - spirited but undeniably fun farce.

And the movie isn't much better than such low bar - setting farces.

Cholodenko takes full tonal advantage of this richly complicated set - up, veering from confrontational dramatics to frisky bedroom farce without ever pushing her characters into territory that feels ill - fitting or unreasoned.

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 cast is clearly having a field day with the material — it would be hard not to with this many funny women on the same set — but sadly we feel out of the loop watching on, trying to justify how a hotel staff could possibly overlook this kind of a farce, one that is happening right in front of their eyes.

Populaire (R for sexuality) French farce, set in 1958, about an applicant (Deborah Francois) for a secretarial position at an insurance company who is informed by her prospective employer (Romain Duris) that she'll have to win a speed typing competition in order to land the job.

As the Farrelly brothers, Peter and Bobby, have attempted to evolve as storytellers, abandoning the farce of their peak output for a more character - driven sensibility, they have, in fact, lost the edge that set them up as the kings of the extended gag.

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.»

The coming year is set to be jam - packed for the 31 - year - old as he is appearing on stage with his dad Brendan and his brother Brian in The Walworth Farce at the Olympia, but he is also starring in Alex Garland's Ex Machina; Brooklyn with Saoirse Ronan and Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Writer / director Adam Leon previously worked as a production assistant on Woody Allen's Hollywood Ending and Melinda and Melinda, and you can see the connection in the way Leon revels in the New York summer setting and his taste for farce.

Murky subplots also abound regarding a 30 - ish co-producer (Alexander, «The Worst Week of My Life») who has her sights set on Adam, willing to nab him at any cost, as well as Jon Lovitz (The Benchwarmers, Farce of the Penguins) playing Rosie's ex, who appears from time to time to try to add a few more zingers to the mix.

It is possible that once the film turns from out and out farce into more of a core relationship film that it might falter just a tad, but the script sets up their relationship so well and so unconventionally (it lovingly refuses to give in to the storybook ending), and Lemmon and MacLaine are so good at playing their parts that to me the momentum never falters (take, for example, the way MacLaine mimes the number three the same way Lemmon does after she sees him do it earlier; it's the little things).

All three actors are set to star in Enda Walsh's The Walworth Farce, a quick - fire comedy complete with slapstick violence and camp cross-dressing sequences.

Another nominee, Liam Gillick, has set a multicoloured perspex... to stop critics deriding the Turner Prize as a farce, and will once again...