Sentences with phrase «film about empathy»

It's a film about empathy, forgiveness and parental bonds, and another sublime low - key drama from a director who never fails to raise the emotional stakes in a subtle and sensitive manner.

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The film succeeds at not just creating empathy for these kids, but also forcing viewers to ask hard questions about the unseen world around them.

Chaz Ebert, President of The Ebert Company and Publisher of RogerEbert.com will welcome panelists John Sloss of Cinetic Media; Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of the Toronto International Film Festival, and Anne Thompson of Indiewire and Thompson on Hollywood for a free - wheeling conversation about why empathy should be encouraged in the works of emerging writers on film and filmmakers.

It's a film that deserves as wide an audience as possible in spite of its forbidding length; a hugely powerful work of great empathy and insight that features a performance from Léa Seydoux that would probably have been the most talked - about coming out of Cannes had it not been overshadowed by that of the film's lead Adele Exarchopolous.

There's a couple genuinely funny parts, but not enough; and while you have to love a sport where drinking is an integral part of the training regimen, at no point in the film does one feel the slightest bit of empathy for the players who are about to lose their jobs... and in a movie with that as the central conflict, that's a problem.

All these years later we're still thinking about A.I. and how the film manages to engender so much human empathy while remaining an essentially cold, remote work largely told from the point of view of robots.

Brice milks this (so to speak) for big laughs in a nude dance sequence — wearing convincing prosthetic dicks, Schwartzman and Scott are truly the genital equivalent of Arnold Schwarzenegger starring opposite Danny DeVito — but he also treats Alex's embarrassment with genuine empathy, briefly turning the film into a serious, affecting drama about deep - seated feelings of inadequacy.

All these years later we are still thinking about A.I. And one of the questions that inevitably comes up is just how the film manages to engender so much profound human empathy while remaining an essentially cold, remote work largely told from the point of view of robots.