Sentences with phrase «film about a woman trying»

Kudos again to Vanderbilt for sticking to the story, and not making it a film about a woman trying to have a career and a family.

Not exact matches

After determining that I was not just another moralist who wanted to influence film content, but someone who was genuinely interested in film, Shurlock relaxed and asked me a question that was very much on his mind: «We are trying to determine what to do about a picture in which director Sidney Lumet wants to include a shot of a woman's bare breasts.

It is a film about an old woman with severe dementia trying to recover from the loss of her husband.

His fourth film under his 20 - year ban is «an artful, surprising and thrillingly intelligent story about a few women trying to make a difference, forging bonds of solidarity in quiet defiance of the repressive, small - minded men in their rural village,» writes L.A. Times critic Justin Chang, who also finds «its insights casually profound.»

This film asks you to applaud for a despicable woman and try to forget about how she treats the people around her.

Some of these movies include «Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping,» a comedy film starring Andy Samberg, which is now in theaters and the longevity of which at the box office remains to be seen; «Central Intelligence,» another comedy which stars Kevin Hart and Dwayne Johnson and which will be released on June 17; and «The Shallows,» a movie about a woman trying to escape a shark which stars Blake Lively.

And while only a few saw it, those who did catch Andrei Zyvagintsev «s «Elena» fell head over heels in love with it; a powerful and gripping Russian film about an elderly woman trying to secure an inheritance for her son.

Try Campion's controversial film In The Cut (2003), with Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo and Jennifer Jason Leigh, a dark and surprisingly existential thriller about a woman who may possibly have encountered a serial killer.

«My Happy Family»: We'll have a longer review on this beautiful film in a few days, but this movie about a woman trying to divorce her family is like if «Krisha» spiked the punch at «My Big Fat Greek Wedding.»

Wendy and Lucy — Oscilloscope Pictures, 80 mins — Kelly Reichert wrote and directed this beautiful film about a young women trying to find her way through the difficulties of daily life.

Hepburn's official final film before entering semi-retirement was Wait Until Dark, Terence Young's lean, nerve - racking adaptation of Frederick Knott's popular stage play about a newly blind woman, Susy, trying to outwit a trio of drug - dealing thugs (played in the film by Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna, and Jack Weston).

Other titles in this section include: Naomi Kawase's sweet, light and leisurely AN; Tom Geens» COUPLE IN A HOLE, about a couple living in an underground forest dwelling to be left alone to deal with their mysterious grief; DEPARTURE, Andrew Steggall's delicate first feature about longing, loneliness and nostalgia for a sense of family that may have never existed; Jacques Audiard's Palme d'Or - winner about a makeshift family trying to cement their bonds, DHEEPAN; the World Premiere of Biyi Bandele's FIFTY, a riveting exploration of love and lust, power and rivalry and seduction and infidelity in Lagos; the European Premiere of Maya Newell's documentary GAYBY BABY, following the lives of four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystical.

THE SHORT VERSION: 20th Century Women is a film about Dorothea, a mother (Annette Bening) trying to raise her son (Lucas Jade Zumann) as a good man, even though his father (literally) is out of -LSB-...]

But if he's stuck for an idea for his next film, he could always try one about a man and woman who sometimes have meaningful conversations.

Though their 2014 film, about a woman (Marion Cotillard) trying to save herself from imminent redundancy, is cut from the same careworn cloth as previous features, it's another undeniably sublime and heartbreaking work about saintly self preservation, the struggles of working class life and the fact that it's often the smallest stories which deal with the biggest and most important ideas.

Perhaps some of these directors wanted to make more films about women, and were shut down by studios — but the industry power wielded by many of them suggests that if they had really tried to make more films about women, they would have succeeded.

But perhaps that was the problem with the film's marketing plan: It was a straight action film trying to touch many markets all at once; a film with a black lead and a majority - black cast, a film with a woman in an action role, a film somewhat about motherhood and relationships.

In the 1980s, Gilbert directed Educating Rita, which introduced Julie Walters to a wide audience, and Shirley Valentine — both films about brave and funny women trying to find themselves by stepping outside their harsh social conditions.

As the film unfolds, we see Jerry visiting his psychotherapist (Jacki Weaver) where he lies about taking his pills, and another woman at work, Lisa (Anna Kendrick), goes about trying to woo Jerry.

The heavy hand of religious fundamentalism, and its subjugation of women, is central to «Gett: The Trial of Viviane Ansalem,» an overwhelmingly intense film about an Orthodox Jewish Israeli woman trying to get a religious divorce.

No one looks at photos anymore, since everything anyone would want or need to know about a person can be obtained from an oral swab (women and men visit a dating booth, where the recently amorous have samples of potential mates tested, and it's where a co-worker (Uma Thurman) tries to find out more about «Jerome,» in the film's clumsy and obligatory romantic subplot), which is helpful.

It's an inoffensive, light - hearted Christmas film centered around a love story about a woman following her ambitions and a man trying to do good in the world.

In theaters August 22, the film is about Dwight McCarthy planing to have his vengeance against the woman who betrayed him, Ava Lord, while Nancy is trying to cope with Hartigan's death.

The entire crux of the film is supposed to be about one confused young woman's ability to find happiness amid trying circumstances and grow up a little.

This sets the stage for a film about an abusive, domineering man trying to force a fragile woman to submit to his will.

In theaters August 22 from TWC - Dimension, the film is about Dwight McCarthy planing to have his vengeance against the woman who betrayed him, Ava Lord, while Nancy is trying to cope with Hartigan's death.

Still, taking the film for what it is, she does a terrific job in the role as a woman that has profoundly changed by witnessing the troubles of veterans, especially in the way the government and media tried to sweep them under the rug and forget about them.

Eisenberg's choices in playing Mike without a trace of irony works in the film's favor, as does Stewart's grittiness and edge as a woman who refuses to take it lying down when the world is trying to kill the man she loves, or when he starts cracking up about the possibility that he might be a robot and not a human being.

One piece that attempted to answer this question was Frances Bodomo's Afronauts (2014), a touching black - and - white film about a Zambian woman trying to beat America to the moon in the 1960s.