Sentences with phrase «from drabness»

As the story unfolds not only does the landscape evolve from desert to ocean but the lives of the characters evolve also from drabness to beauty.

Not exact matches

Director Judd Apatow is no stylist, and the film suffers a bit from a general visual drabness and a limping pace that keep some of the jokes from hitting as squarely as they should and drains some of the third - act momentum.

In a tradition ranging from the kitchen - sink realist films of the late»50s and early»60s to the contemporary works of Mike Leigh and Andrea Arnold, English movies set among the working classes have tended to have fatalistic trajectories and miserabilist aesthetics, underlining their drabness to reflect their characters» sense of hopelessness and to visually convey a lack of upward mobility.

In truth, however, any update would've elevated the 2013 version from the depths of its drabness.