Sentences with phrase «film about compassion»

Not exact matches

As the film of her other half talking about «compassion» and «decency» did the rounds, actress Amanda Abbington tweeted:

Just as films about misunderstood benevolent aliens in the 1950s (The Day the Earth Stood Still, It Came from Outer Space) were calling for an end to the Cold War us - and - them mentality, District 9 is likewise making a strong statement about the damage that can be done when refugees are treated with suspicion before being given any compassion.

Roy Grundmann who is Associate professor of Film Studies and also expert on Michael Haneke's films wrote about euthanasia in Amour: «Haneke submits the more provocative claim that such a choice, even when fueled by radical compassion and even in the arena of romantic love, is never completely altruistic.»

The Selfish Giant will knock you sideways with its compassion - this is a film about a nation's shame so richly humane that it becomes, itself, a source of national pride.

The film is never less than forthright about asserting her fundamental dignity, but it's fixated on what she's lost: a home, the compassion of others, and a lover.

What's even more uncanny, both films were about male stubbornness and inability to compromise, with the seemingly weaker female characters as the carriers of compassion and grace.

Maybe my expectations were duly lowered but director Francis Lawrence, who took over the series from filmmaker Gary Ross and raised the bar, and screenwriters Peter Craig and Danny Strong turn out a surprisingly engaging film about rebellion, propaganda, media, and the emotional and psychological scars of war, all seen from the point of view of a young woman (Jennifer Lawrence) who becomes a symbol of resistance simply by surviving with courage, dignity, and compassion.

Shot on 16 mm, Bronstein's film is a bleak but unforgettable character study about a New York door - to - door salesman, played with compassion and ferocity by Dore Mann.

Only The Young begins as a movie about the friendship between two boys, but Elmore quickly comes to dominate a film that approaches the uncertainty and heightened emotions of youth with unexpected delicacy and compassion.

Arrival possibly takes itself more seriously than any Villeneuve film yet — it's about a big topic, the possibility of our saving the world through mutual understanding and a mixture of quiet compassion and lucid logical thought.

Toivon tuolla puolen (The Other Side of Hope, Aki Kaurismäki, 2017) A timely film about finding compassion and hope in a hostile world.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri earns its R - rating with language and violence, but it's a film that, in the end, is more about compassion, redemption and good old - fashioned decency.

Will Smith stars in this horrifyingly cutesy Will Smith film in which bereavement is offset by soft - focus platitudes about wonder and compassion

Say what you will about Goodfellas, but Martin Scorsese (who's credited here as an executive producer) allowed his audience to discern, in that film's pointed amorality, the compassion that was missing from the «heroes.»

It was also challenging to watch Martin McDonagh's watery «compassion for racists, jokes about dwarves» fable Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri scoop up award after award, while paradigm - shaking films like Get Out and Call Me By Your Name went home empty - handed.