Sentences with phrase «film about grief»

Director Mark Pellington and writer Alex Ross Perry have created a film about grief, loss, memories and stuff, the things we hang on to for numerous reasons that don't always have a simple explanation.

Resurrecting Hassan is an inspired and unusually affecting film about grief, which proves an insurmountable burden even for the Hartings, who live lives of constant adaptation.

This film is about more than the story of JFK and Jackie O, the «beautiful people» as Bobbie Kennedy calls them; it's a film about grief and bereavement and a woman whose husband dies in her arms.

Is it a horror film about grief, or is grief the real horror story all along?

There's a fine film about grief and denial lurking just at the surface of Love Happens, but it's obvious someone at some point wasn't too happy with the idea of a fine film about grief and denial.

It's a film about grief, and in part about acting, a shifting meta game that never, ever lets you feel comfortable or settled in what you're watching, or knowing what to expect in the next scene.

Following the after - life story of a man who dies in a car crash, this is a film about grief and existentialism but, most importantly, about time.

Which, in cineplex terms, means an odd couple of releases set in different (but equally violent) eras of Russia; an outstanding Israeli film about grief; and not one, not two, but three sci - fi - inflected blockbusters.

Not exact matches

Tender and touching film about two sisters whose close relationship is tested by the joy of love and the pain of grief.

Despite the efforts of a strong ensemble cast — featuring Bruce Dern, John Ortiz, Ellen Burstyn, Nick Offerman, Jon Hamm, Catherine Keener and Patton Oswalt — the film fails to drive home its point, about the power of the stuff we leave behind when we die, with the same emotional punch that the people on - screen seem to be telegraphing: grief, longing, regret, resentment and sundry other flavors of moroseness.

Incendiary I missed this film when it released, but I'm always up for Michelle Williams movies, even if stories about grief and ill - advised relationships don't tend to be my thing.

Riveting performances from Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams anchor the excellent «Disobedience,» a film about love and grief set in a community of Orthodox Jews in London.

John's new film Calvary is also about impending violence and grief.

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.

At the press day for Beautiful Boy, actress Maria Bello did this exclusive interview with Collider, where she talked about choosing roles very instinctually, how she was drawn to exploring the levels of grief for this role, how much she enjoyed collaborating with co-star Michael Sheen, and that she thinks this is ultimately a hopeful film.

The end result is a film about the material and immaterial worlds in relation to Maureen and her attempts to preserve her own identity in the wake of her grief.

I was the only black person in the theater, lured to the film by its glowing reviews — at the time of this writing, it holds a rating of 93 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, boosted by several notices that gush about how the film is a dark but honest look at humanity and grief.

But perhaps the most personal thing about the film is that Baltimore is still dealing with the grief from his daughter's death during a boating accident — many will know that Coppola's own son Gian - Carlo passed away under similar circumstances in 1986.

I remain firmly in the corner of this graceful film about the timelessness of grief.

«Moonrise Kingdom,» like all of Anderson's films, is a very beautiful and funny movie about grief and sorrow, and the never - was 1965 the film takes place in is both a meticulously - crafted triumph of design and decor and an emotionally rich setting, full of objects you could almost reach out and touch, with feelings and yearnings that reach out to you.

Focusing on parents of suicide victims and the suffering they experience in the aftermath, Dieckmann has also made a frequently funny and warm film about surviving grief.

Grief, it can be argued, never leaves you — and so a film about such pain should similarly never try to shake its central mourner.

As the two men begin to come out of their grief in different ways, «Dean» puts a smart new spin on male - driven comedies, making his film as much about emotion as it is about humor.

After screening the film in his home, Andrew Dominik talks about the art of filming grief in 3D black - and - white.

Though I Kill Giants is ultimately an uplifting story about a young protagonist dealing with death and grief, the film is perhaps not best suited to very young viewers.

A deeply sentimental and meditative film about the weight of grief and the attachments we have to the homes we build, A Ghost Story overcomes its somewhat pretentious trappings (long, Malickian takes with whispered narrative, shooting in Academy Ratio with rounded corners) and silly premise of watching Casey Affleck spend nearly the entire film with a sheet over his head and spins a metaphysical tale that transcends space and time.

As such, it's a film that's predominately about grief, and most effective when that's what it's focusing on: as much as the characters try to hide or repress it, the loss haunts them — and smartly, it's not just Eleanor and Conor who are bleeding, but their parents and friends too.

His mise en scène is very sober, with deliberate pacing, no music, and muted cinematography in blue and gray hues, with things moving in and out of frame, in and out of focus... In a not so specific way, this made me think of M. Night Shyamalan's visual style; the fact that the film is about how people deal with grief, like many of the «Sixth Sense» director's films, only furthered this impression.

In seven minutes, It's Not an Accident, a film the Illinois Department of Transportation uses to teach new drivers about the grim realities of train crashes, tells a compelling story full of palpable grief.