Sentences with phrase «films about mortality»
Best films about mortality, memory, human connection: «Personal Shopper» (Olivier Assayas), «Marjorie Prime,» elevated by the magnificent Lois Smith (Michael Almereyda), and most especially, «A Ghost Story» (David Lowery) 3.
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For lead actor, dark horse «Biutiful» star Javier Bardem — who portrays a hustler confronting questions about his mortality and morality in the Barcelona - set film — edged strong contenders including «Blue Valentine» heartthrob Ryan Gosling, Robert Duvall's portrayal of a hermit in «Get Low» and Mark Wahlberg's turn as a working - class boxer in «The Fighter.»
They are films, in other words, about courage, about a journey, and about sex and rituals of mortality.
More importantly than anything, it cuts close to the bone, with much of the film feeling like Gilliam confronting his own mortality: «for all the film's flaws, it feels like a very personal and moving piece of work as Qohen moves towards some kind of acceptance that his time on Earth will be brief in the grand scale of things... it's not so much a film about a search for a meaning, as an embrace of meaningless, and it's fascinating in that respect.»
Sichel's choice to make a film about her illness, of course, not only has the opposite effect of firmly directing her attention to her own mortality, but it also forces her to engage with technology and stress, two leading triggers of sickness today.
Q: This film is obviously very much about facing mortality, a very real concept, especially for men.
Anyway, the first part of the film is about George dealing with fame and mortality and Ira discovering the essential emptiness of immense wealth and notoriety without the love of a good woman.
Lisa Skapinker has the review of Barney's Version, a film about a difficult, thrice - divorced, aging man, played by Paul Giamatti, who struggles with memory and mortality.
Through the characters, we discover that what the film really is about is mortality and the way in which it hovers and shadows each of the stories within WIENER - DOG.
Used in sculptural pieces, room - sized environments, drawings and paintings, performance, artist sketchbooks, LED sample models and documentary film, Miyajima's electronic counter gadgets draw together a single conversation about the nature of time, renewal and questions of mortality.
For 90 minutes, the film follows Cléo in real time, observing her as she frets about the results and her own mortality.
This fascinating film reveals disturbing facts about malnutrition and infant mortality, and the role of insidious corporations in perpetuating these problems.