Sentences with phrase «for high melodrama»

The third act plot turn which blights La Piscine is beautifully handled in A Bigger Splash, with the picture's operatic structure, along with Guadagnino's irrepressible flair for high melodrama, amplifying the sensory impact.

Not exact matches

Crabtree continued working at Gainsborough for the rest of the 1940s, directing They Were Sisters (1945), Caravan (1946), and Dear Murderer (1947) for the studio, all high - profile if not highly distinguished melodramas.

Cho, who disperses drugs and wisdom to the main charactor, for some reason (never fully explained) abhors all the high school melodrama, so coerces the main charactor into taking the cheerleader to a dance.

Nicole Kidman exhibits a range that is almost too astonishing for words: she succeeds in high melodrama, camp, subtlety, comedy, and her singing is just so beautiful.

A commanding blend of the high and low, a thoroughly sordid family melodrama designed for over-literate history buffs.

Vanaja (Unrated) Class - conscious melodrama, set in Southern India, revolves around the tensions which arise after a 14 year - old fisherman's daughter (Mamatha Bukhya) takes a live - in position working for a woman from a higher caste (Urmila Dammanagari) in order to pursue her dream of studying Kuchipudi dancing.

While there are plenty of high points to recommend here from the giddy sophisticated comedy - romance Jewel Robbery (1932), a Pre-Code Ernst Lubitsch wannabe, to the eclectic political espionage thriller British Agent (1934) to the exotic and risque melodrama Mandalay (1934), I cast my vote for THE HOUSE ON 56TH STREET (1933) as the quintessential Kay Francis vehicle and an excellent introduction to the actress.

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Ever the chameleon, Haynes (who has made throwback 50's melodramas, glam rock pastiches and high concept Bob Dylan biopics) has set his camera's eye on the world of children, adapting an illustrated book by Brian Selznick, best known for writing the novel that would become Martin Scorsese's flight of fancy, Hugo.

The gulf between what she says and what she wants gets played for laughs in Mean Girls, but in her latest film, Sebastian Lelio's Disobedience, it's played for tension and tragedy -LSB-...] The stakes are high, yet Disobedience never slips into easy melodrama.

It quickly became a polarizing film for film critics, many embracing the Red Shoes meets Repulsion psychological portrait of neurosis and obsession in a meek, repressed young woman (Natalie Portman) who still has little girl prima ballerina dreams, others critical of the melodrama, hysteria and blunt metaphors («high - grade hokum,» as one critic called it).

Xavier Dolan wins the Grand Prix to grumbles The mega-talented 27 - year - old claimed the fest's second highest honor for his melodrama, It's Only the End of the World.

Aside from that, there's a couple of moments of attempted macho - ness that are adorably camp, the big pre-volcano final battle in the arena gets close to the levels of enjoyably over-the-top action Anderson has become known for and the film ends on a note of such astoundingly high melodrama that you can't help leaving the film having a little chuckle.

So begins the high school melodrama of Strawberry 100 %; Junpei and his friends begin the hunt for the mystery girl and her strawberry panties, and everyone gets mixed up in a strange, all to familiar love circle where everyone is sure that two people are perfect for each other, but intervening relationships, arguments, and other such tomfoolery end up keeping them away from each other.