Sentences with phrase «farcical fashion»

That's all you need to know, really, because «The Birdcage» is mostly a comedy of character married to traditional farce, and in true farcical fashion things just get crazier and crazier — starting the moment that Armand decides to play it «straight» for his son's potential in - laws and masquerade as a «couple» with the boy's natural mother (Christine Baranski).

The first leg was held at the Camp Nou and though Juventus took the lead in farcical fashion, Pierluigi Casiraghi took advantage of a miserable backpass, a brace from Hristo Stoichkov and a third from Andoni Goikoetxea — which was enough to give Barcelona the win and, crucially, a margin to take to Italy.

Not exact matches

Noah Baumbach again arrives in auspicious fashion, delivering a fast - talking farcical bumblebee of a film whose honey is sweet and sting is bruising.

Meanwhile, Leigh's script — cast - workshopped and assembled in his trademark unorthodox fashion — deftly maintains a probing dramatic throughline while seasonally shuffling between solemn personal drama, brittle social satire and near - farcical high comedy.