Sentences with phrase «film about a woman who»

So when I saw a preview for a film about a woman who finds a dog and he becomes her constant companion I knew I had to see it: Darling Companion.

Intense psychodrama in this Italian film about a woman who recall her past abuse by a pedophilia father.

She will next be seen in the Semi Chellas - helmed film American Woman, a film about the women who cared for Patty Hearst.

For a film about a woman who enjoys the the act of sex without actually being able to achieve orgasm, it's fittingly ironic how The Oh in Ohio manages to make us sense amusement without actually getting us to laugh out loud.

«It's a film about a woman who refuses to take any... anymore,» he said.

«Two Days, One Night,» Dec. 24 Oscar and 2014 New York Film Critics Circle winner Marion Cotillard stars in this Belgian film about a woman who will lose her job if she fails to convince her colleagues to turn down bonuses they all accepted despite knowing she'd be dismissed.

Blue Jasmine Woody Allen's ode to the wreckage of the 1 % is a film about a woman who was the wife of a Wall Street tycoon, a Bernie Madoff type.

I mean, I can't remember the last time I saw a film about a woman who steps into a kiddie park in her hometown and causes a giant reptilian monster to emerge in South Korea.

In fact, I am not sure any of the peripheral names can break through — it is going to depend on Emma Thompson, a wholly beloved and reliable actress, starring a film about the woman who created Mary Poppins.

In her corner: Reese does her best dramatic work in a very fine moving film about a woman who has let her life slip away But... enthusiasm does nt seem to be there for the film

An incredible, chilling film about a woman who has been kidnapped and locked in a room away from human interaction.

McDonagh also used his stage time to frame the film within the current political climate: «Our film is a hopeful one in lots of ways, but it's also an angry one, and as we've seen this year, sometimes anger is the only way to get people to listen and to change,» He added, «What I'm most proud of, especially in this Time's Up year, is it is a film about a woman who refuses to take any more shit.»

A while back, Amy Schumer was supposed to be starring in a movie called Barbie, a film about a woman who doesn't fit into the world of Barbies.

Not exact matches

After more than three dozen women have come forward to accuse Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault and harassment, George Clooney and Matt Damon have spoken out about the powerful Miramax head who helped launch their careers.

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.

Or consider the report by Caryn James in the New York Times on the recent Sundance Film Festival, in which she describes the film Care of the Spitfire Grill as «a manipulatively heartwarming story about a young woman just out of prison who finds spiritual redemption.»

As an example, look at this documentary about men who spend large sums to meet Ukranian women and bring them back to the U.S. or Australia: http://lovemethedocumentary.com/ The attitude of the film makers is very evident.

This one was from Kate, who identified herself as an API member from New Hampshire, USA, and the woman about whom the article featured in the film for maybe a couple seconds is about.

If you ask for the reason of such an article, maybe you should know that there are plenty of supposed experts who would use such a film, made by filmmakers and promoted by promotional people, as «scientific evidence» to «educate» pregnant women and couples about the risks of medicalized birth.

Schneiderman had been outspoken about Harvey Weinstein, the film mogul who became the face of the #MeToo movement after a series of women accused him of sexually assaulting them.

«Secondly, don't believe everything that you read about movie stars because some of the women who've had kids in their late 40s, such as film stars, have used donor eggs, but they don't tell you that in the article because it's their own private business,» warns Prof Ledger.

The actress, who is serving as a jury panelist for the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, spoke publicly about her disappointment at the depiction of women in this year's films, saying, «I do hope that when we include more female storytellers, we will have more of the women that I recognize in my day - to - day life.

A documentary made about Okinawa showed a 100 year old villager with better fitness levels than an entire film crew less than half her age, a 96 year old martial artist who beat a 36 year old boxing champion (on national American television live) and even a 105 year old woman who easily killed poisonous snakes.

Model and «Houghton Girl» Chloe Norgaard is one of nine women who star in a poignant short film about body positivity ups and downs.

Keira «s film Laggies, about a woman stuck in permanent adolescence who lies to her fiance, was just given a release date of September 26, 2014 by its studio, A24.

The feature, Actors in Search of a Story, applauds the entire cast of the film (right down to the woman who plays Harold's psychologist for about two minutes of screen time), Building the Team profiles director Marc Forster and some of his crew, and Words on a Page focuses on budding young screenwriter Zach Helm.

«Clean» might be a film in code about the most infamous of all rock - and - roll widows, but I hope not, since Allison Anders» «Sugar Town» had already done a fine job of eviscerating (again, in code) this woman, who nevertheless, love her or hate her, arguably served the important and underrated function of muse for the troubled drug - addled musician.

For Tully, Theron gained 50 pounds: she looks pregnant — the baby, Marlo's third, is born shortly into the film — and then she looks like a woman who has just given birth and is too exhausted, mentally and physically, what with a newborn and two grade - schoolers to take care of, to do a damn thing about «getting into shape.»

So when The Hunger Games or Wonder Woman or Black Panther becomes an enormous hit, everybody is utterly shocked (except for those of us who've been clamoring for those films since childhood), and the entertainment journalists write articles about this surprising new development, and explain why it may never happen again.

Two years later, he could be seen in another high - profile, politically tinged thriller, this time opposite Denzel Washington in director Jonathan Demme's remake of The Manchurian Candidate.In 2005 he made his directorial and screenwriting debut with Everything Is Illuminated, and appeared in the critically acclaimed, Golden Globe - winning HBO movie Lackawanna Blues, a life - affirming film about a selfless black woman (played by S. Epatha Merkerson) in 1950s segregated New York who provides a home and a guiding hand to the youths who come to live at her boarding house.

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 is not to say Jennifer Westfeldt isn't still a remarkable triple threat who creates great films for and about women.

Directed by Aleksander Bach, Friend will co-star alongside Zachary Quinto, Hannah Ware, and Ciarán Hinds in this film about an assassin who teams up with a woman to help her find her father, and uncover the mysteries of her ancestry.

In addition to Slater (who also executive produced), Cameron Diaz is on hand as Kyle's bride Laura, a controlling, passive - aggressive woman who drops the passive hyphenate about halfway through the film.

Five vignettes about LA women who are connected only by the film's poetic story - telling.

Enough Said is a unique film in that it isn't about the man having to overcome his foibles in order to be worthy of the woman he wants, it's about a woman who must look within and come to terms on whether she can accept someone else into her life who has a set of flaws that someone she regards highly finds unacceptable.

The 2018 Academy Award nominations also include another transgender entry in the Best Foreign Language Film category with the Chilean / German co-production, A Fantastic Woman, a film about a trans woman who faces transphobia while mourning her lover's dWoman, a film about a trans woman who faces transphobia while mourning her lover's dwoman who faces transphobia while mourning her lover's death.

The entire movie is really a metaphor for loving those who are different from us, but for Swanson, the film is literally about a woman who commits the unholy perversion of fucking a fish.

Greta Gerwig who wrote and directed «Lady Bird,» which won Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, noted that «it's been such an incredible year for women in film both as actors and also writers and directors and producers and people who are really coming to the forefront to tell their stories about the world as they know it from where they are standing, and I think that the response to these projects and the support that these projects have gotten and the way that audiences are going to see them or watching them in their homes, I think all of this just makes it so much easier for the next crop of filmmakers who want to tell stories about women.»

The film centers on a beautiful, strong - willed woman, who, frustrated by ongoing injustice at home, leaves the United States after meeting Jude, an American doctor who runs a remote medical mission within the Ottoman Empire — a world both exotic and dangerous, and on the brink of what is about to become the first World War.

In 2011, a film was released called Pariah, about a young, African American woman who is quietly but assuredly embracing her sexuality.

It's maybe not the movie for audiences who absolutely insist on a plot — The Guardian, in a 4/5 review, calls it «a film about nothing specific» — but if you're willing to just give yourself over to the experience, 20th Century Women looks like a warmhearted dramedy.

Although the film is a bit on the preachy side in an obvious way, it's difficult not to feel good about the women coming to terms with their own bodies and feeling proud of who they are.

It is a must - see film for anyone curious about the origin of Wonder Woman's origin story, starring Luke Evans as Professor Marston, the man who created the iconic female hero.

At the same time, his daughter (Chloe Grace Moretz), a minor who just turned 17, is starting an affair with a sixty - something film director (John Malkovich) who is legendary for his skill and productivity but also notorious for making films about older men having affairs with much younger women and doing the same thing in real life.

The film is about a pair of clever young thieves who rob the houses of rich people, but one day one of them winds up at a home where a woman is being held against her will.

Director Ali Asgari's film about women in strict societies who fight for their right to have children unconventionally

The film works on multiple levels — as a supernatural thriller (though explicit paranormal elements are limited to a hallucinatory dream sequence and the final shot of the baby's eyes), as a psychological thriller about a paranoid pregnant woman who imagines herself at the centre of a conspiracy, and as the last word in marital betrayal, since the most despicable villain here is surely Guy, who allows his wife to be raped by the devil in exchange for an acting role.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Bordertown (R for sexuality, nudity, profanity, and violence, including a brutal rape) Jennifer Lopez stars in this fact - based thriller about an American journalist who goes undercover to investigate the murders of hundreds of women near U.S. - owned factories located in a Mexican town just across the border.

So I'll use this opportunity to sing the praises of something I'm much less surprised but no less disappointed didn't make our list: Gett: The Trial Of Viviane Amsalem, a thorny Israeli film about a married woman (Ronit Elkabetz, who also co-wrote and co-directed) attempting to secure a divorce against her prideful husband's wishes — a real uphill battle with Israeli law, which is fundamentally stacked against her.