Sentences with phrase «film about the emotions»

Performances are great, but for a film about emotions, the bleakness does not necessarily generate the heart - felt response it should.

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It might seem like a minor detail, but it makes a big difference, given that this film is all about what drives our emotions.

I won't reveal too much about the film, but I will tell you this: We experience all of these emotions, simultaneously.

It's a beautiful and entertaining film that will give you and your kids plenty to talk about and a clever and vivid way to understand emotions.

The best thing that can be said about Bats vs. Supes is that it's rapid collapse at the box office may finally be enough to convince Warner Brothers to remove Snyder from any future DC Comics films and give them to those who've show an ability to deliver movies with coherent character, narrative and emotion in addition to pure spectacle — and preferably all of the above.

It never flashes back, as you might expect in a film about memories, but instead lingers on the faces of actors as they process emotions or focuses on simple items that hold intense meaning, like keychains.

Most films about love deal with the initial rush of emotion, when cheeks and hearts burn hot, with that thing that has been termed, most horrendously, as «meet - cute.»

In the end, there is just about enough narrative to hold interest, while the lyrical camerawork, constantly in motion, blurred images and all, offers a single emotion that is impossible to stretch over a feature - length film.

Lucy, the new film from the writer and director of Léon and The Fifth Element, is about a drug mule who gains incredible powers - including clairvoyance, telekinesis and the ability to completely block out emotion and pain - after a drug she is supposed to be transporting accidentally enters her system.

It's a powerful, provocative, ambitious drama set in the shadow of September 11, 2001, a marvelously messy film about the messiness of emotions and people and relationships, especially as they are tested in extreme circumstances.

Yet, there's a breaking point: our Alien is touched by this man and starts to feel things she hasn't felt before, setting up the perplexing emotions that are about to come in this staggeringly masterful film.

Also in contention must be Fremon Craig's script, which plays to the teen audience with recognisable moments of anguish and glee (the romance subplot involving Hayden Szeto's American / Korean student feels both fresh and warmly familiar) while exploring some very adult emotions; as with the best of the genre, it is a film about teenagers but not just for teenagers.

Inside Out Rated PG Studio: Disney Formats available: 3D BD, BD, DVD, VOD Pixar does it again with this brilliant animated film about a young girl's emotions inside her head.

Of course, the film — or, as Monáe calls it, an «emotion picture» — also heavily echoes The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood's chilling 1985 novel about a conservative future society, which was adapted into a 1990 film and is now an acclaimed, Emmy - winning Hulu series starring Elisabeth Moss as an enslaved woman compelled to serve as a child - bearer for the government's elite.

In its swirl of violence and emotion, the new movie feels like a summation of those two most recent pictures, even as it braids together settings and story elements from Jia's earlier films «Unknown Pleasures» (2002) and «Still Life» (2008), his surreally tinged docu - fiction about the incalculable impact of the Three Gorges Dam project.

In the middle part of Anderson's career (circa «The Life Aquatic» and after), some critics began to complain about the familiar stylized elements of his films being a crutch and formula, diorama - like to the point of aestheticizing the emotions of the story (to be fair, some prescribed elements — the slow motion endings, that Futura font, the expected Kinks or Rolling Stone song — were starting to feel a little mechanical at a certain point).

Everything about the film is outsized, unrealistic and hyperbolic: the vibrant Technicolors, sweeping camera movements, hysterical acting, and every scene is charged with emotion.

Perhaps because it centers on a murder no one in the film seems to care about, and features a framing device involving maid Macy Gray recounting the film's actions, which further distances this sleepy train wreck from the white - hot emotions at its core.

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.

Although in one instance — a party sequence featuring a rather clichéd depiction of Catherine's feelings of claustrophobia in a crowded space — the film falls victim to a heavy - handed narrative choice and unsubtle execution, more often, smaller moments such as Catherine's interactions with Rich, or her reminiscences about the past with Ginny, become crucial in expressing her emotions.

What is particularly impressive about Spall's performance is the sheer array of emotions he conveys non-verbally throughout the film, often saying a thousand words with a simple grunt.

There's something about the way Pixar films capture your emotions.

It's all in your head for «Inside Out,» a film about the imagined «control center» of our thoughts and emotions.

The first «Paddington» was a pleasant enough family film with some genuine moments of humor and emotion, but director Paul King's 2017 follow - up is better in just about every way.

Téchiné said about the film's emotion, «I prefer the public to be moved when Manu runs, climbs a tree or has a laugh than when he is sick.

I chose to give him the benefit of the doubt and chalk his demeanor up to his character, as he does display some actual genuine emotion in a turning point scene with his father (the always brilliant former Oscar nominee Richard Jenkins, whose slightly autistic coin collecting father is really the stand - out here in a film supposedly about two youngsters in love), and he certainly looks the part.

While «Hostiles» continues to rollout in theaters around the States, we spoke with the filmmaker about mining heavy emotions with his growing repertory of actors (cheers to newly anointed Academy Award nominee Timothée Chalamet), and the importance of keeping his films fingerprint - free.

And that's kind of fine since the supporting ensemble here is so strong, but when things come back around to Jude at the end of the film, it's tough to feel any strong emotions about his personal journey.

I think that for a lot of people, what sticks in their minds about Call Me by Your Name is the sensuousness with which it is shot and its almost fantasy - like setting in a ramshackle villa in Italy — essentially, the beauty and emotion of the film.

Luca Guadagnino's new film, which adapts André Aciman's 2007 novel about a precocious 17 - year - old who falls in lust and love with his father's 24 - year - old graduate student, is remarkable for how it turns literature into pure cinema, all emotion and image and heady sensation.

It plays like a greatest hits of human emotion, combining everything great about film into one very unlikely sci - fi piece, leaving us with something essential, immediate, and invigorating.

Biblical epics are tricky to get right, and Ridley Scott certainly knows how to make them look and feel terrific (see Gladiator and Kingdom of Heaven), but his films are generally about the spectacle rather than the human emotion.

A film that is careful in its observations about human emotions, and which exudes serious drama - you care about these characters and hence you care what happens to them.

The film works so well that when Carney's dedication comes on the screen right before the credits roll, it unleashes profound emotion because it's the anchor of what the film has been about all along, something felt throughout, but not underlined or spoken.

But when I walked out of the theater after a press screening in October, my dominant feeling about the movie was one of rage, and not even about the film's most obvious targets for that emotion.

One of the best films about my generation's inability to handle love and our emotions.

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.

Such is Herbert Ross» Pennies from Heaven (1981), a film that is both deeply jaded and yet incredibly frank about its emotions, essentially becoming a commentary on escapism and the painful compromise between reality and fantasy.

«Inside Out» is all about our emotions, and while I laughed at times, this film also desperately wants you to cry, but falls short in achieving that reaction.

September 16, 2011 • Director Nicolas Winding Refn explains how he chose the swooning electronic pop songs that underscore the emotion in his new film, about a stuntman and getaway driver whose emotional awakening is interrupted by bursts of brutal violence.

Despite the celebratory atmosphere of Sulu's pride and the film's upcoming release, emotions were still raw about the loss of fellow Star Trek Beyond cast member Anton Yelchin, who died in a freak accident earlier this year.

Andre Techine's spirited film about two teenage boys in a French mountain countryside town is brimming with raw, untethered emotion and naturalistic performances.

In case you are feeling a bit meh about films - seen it all before, got the t - shirt etc - we've selected some of the films coming up in 2016 to wring your emotions and put that filmgoing skip back in your step.

You can practically diagram every scene in the film: The ones that slip in the backstories of the characters (Affleck's wife is eight months pregnant; Sibide's work visa is about to expire), the ones that reveal important information in - between the laughs (Tea Leoni's excellent moment as an FBI agent who's had too much to drink), the ones intended to inject some emotion into the picture (an attempted suicide) and the ones where the actors were allowed to riff and improvise (practically any scene in which Murphy appears).

The Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty members participating in an Askwith Forum panel discussing the controversial documentary Waiting for «Superman» expressed mixed emotions about the film's emphasis on charter schools and teachers unions, and agreed it's a small glimpse of a large and complicated education problem.

This film captures and evokes nourishing and afflictive emotions in the viewer, offers insight into what is best and worst about human beings, and highlights the persevering effort, adversity, and triumph of the human spirit.

The au naturale pic above his her avatar and this is her first tweet below: Katie is in Cape Town filming The Giver, based on the Newberry Medal winning young - adult novel by Lois Lowry about a society where everyone lacks memories or emotions.