Sentences with phrase «film about mental illness»

In a year that has given us a compassionate story about addiction in «Flight,» we also have this equally tender film about mental illness.

I found it a truly engaging experience; both funny, touching and ultimately a sincere film about mental illness and the perception of genius and madness being two sides of the same coin.

One of the oddest films about mental illness to come along in awhile, this pitch black comedy from Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis) follows the downward spiral of Jerry (Ryan Reynolds), a fellow driven to violence by the voices in his head... which seem to be emanating from his pets.

Not exact matches

Welcome to Me may be about one woman's experience with mental illness and winning the lottery, but the film is also meant to reflect a little bit of us all.

Fred Wiseman, the veteran US documentary maker whose films have tackled everything from mental illness to retail, tells Jason Solomons about filming the Paris Opera Ballet.

«Three Christs» [CAA / Highland Film Group] Jon Avnet sets about the ambitious task of creating both a black comedy and a film that gets mental illness right.

The gauche remarks of the beaver and — at least this how it felt in the press screening — a prevailing scepticism of mental illness, means the film raises more laughs than you'd expect — and more than are appropriate — for a film about depression.

That's because the film, directed by Shira Piven, is about mental illness, a decidedly unfunny subject.

Few horror films are as insistent about the trauma mental illness inflicts on families as Lights Out.

He finds madness and mayhem from four very different artists: Paul Noble's invented world Nobson which has become an entire world (with an awful lot of poo in it), Spartacus Chetwynd's interactive «medieval morality plays» and two nominees which focus on film: Luke Fowler's long film All Divided Selves all about madness and mental illness and Elizabeth Price's The Woolworths Choir of 1979.