Sentences with phrase «films about adolescence»

Lady Bird is something truly special: a coming - of - age comedy so funny, perceptive, and truthful that it makes most other films about adolescence look like little more than lessons in cliché.

Lady Bird, a coming - of - age story starring Saoirse Ronan that The A.V. Club's own A.A. Dowd said is «so funny, perceptive, and truthful that it makes most other films about adolescence look like little more than lessons in cliché.»

The first segment also recalls his 1985 autobiographical film about his adolescence, A Time to Live and a Time to Die, the second recalls his 1998 Flowers of Shanghai (set in a ritzy Shanghai bordello during the 1880s), and the third his 2001 Millennium Mambo (a mainly contemporary film starring Shu Qi).

She wrote on social media: «Basically #GretaGerwig made a film about my adolescence in Sacramento & ditching it for college in NY.

Not exact matches

Keira «s film Laggies, about a woman stuck in permanent adolescence who lies to her fiance, was just given a release date of September 26, 2014 by its studio, A24.

If you can see past the rain of blood, Raw is a gorgeously moving film about fear and adolescence — albeit one best viewed on an empty stomach.

A one - joke film of nudge - nudge, wink - wink sexual adolescence and fat jokes, it lacks the inimitable mix of bad taste, romantic charm and spirited performance that defined «There's Something About Mary.»

The film, about a woman stuck in slacker adolescence, stars Chloë Grace Moretz, Keira Knightley, and Sam Rockwell.

A cinematic time capsule of sorts in that you're essentially watching a kid (both the character and actor playing him) grow up before your very eyes, the film has some really poignant things to say about adolescence, parenting and life in general.

From the beginning, Roger was inspired to see Coppola's films with a unique perspective — to focus on the young boys on the fringes of the story, and to talk about the idea of adolescence.

Criterion has also added «Strange Magic,» a 13 - minute featurette focused around writer and Rookie editor - in - chief Tavi Gevinson, who explores the film through the lens of adolescence, suicide, and memory via her own writing and imagery from a fanzine she made about the film in 2012.

This is a convincing and emotionally honest film about a specific kind of adolescence: bratty, confused, middle - middle class, white, female, pretentious, and ultimately kindhearted.

If you can overlook the morally difficult subject matter, The Diary of a Teenage Girl is a provocative, candid and funny film about the transition from female adolescence to womanhood and, more importantly, the value of self - worth.

The winning new teen romp Superbad was written by Evan Goldberg and Judd Apatow's protégé Seth Rogen, and directed by The Daytrippers» Greg Mottola, but it still feels like the concluding film in Apatow's trilogy of raunchy, big - hearted, improvisation - heavy comedies about man - children torn between the pleasures of eternal adolescence and the relentless pull of adult responsibility.

Showing in the out - of - competition Premieres section, the film is described in the official Sundance announcement as «a coming - of - age story about a 28 - year - old woman stuck in permanent adolescence.»

This is a film about growing up, after all, and the way we see Lady Bird marching through her last year of high school makes it quite apparent that adolescence is, for her, like a battlefield.

A miserabilist story about the horror of adolescence that is obviously helmed by a first - timer, Lady Bird is redeemed by a cast so sterling that I actually wished the film were longer.

The incredibly lazy device of voiceover narration assures girls in the audience Cassie is just like them, so the film's extended metaphor about surviving adolescence will resonate more quickly.

Not only that, the film triggers deep curiosities and fears, whether you can fully grasp what they are or not — about adolescence, about parenthood, about the supposed big, bad world.

A cinematic time capsule of sorts in that you're essentially watching a kid (both the character and the actor playing him) grow up before your very eyes, the film has some very poignant things to say about adolescence, parenting and life in general.