Sentences with phrase «from picaresque»

'' shiny happy people from Picaresque Happy people are good for you, according to Kathy Sierra of the Headrush blog.

Official Premise: Adapted from the picaresque novel by Barry Gifford, writer - director David Lynch's Wild at Heart (1990) is a scarifying road movie starring Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern as Sailor and Lula, a pair of star - crossed lovers pursued across the American landscape by all manner of horrors.

Like its festival sibling Lovelace, Winterbottom's well - crafted film evolves from picaresque to tragedy — though in this case, perhaps owing to its gender perspective, it makes a stronger impression in the former mode than the latter.

Not exact matches

The quest is distinguished from mere adventure, a trait which marks a great deal of nonfantasy fiction (going back, perhaps, to the picaresque novel).

Virgil's journeys have a picaresque quality, which can make the film feel overly precious — look, here's the drunkard figuring himself out, stumbling from one microcosm of the struggles of his people to another.

Thus begins the running joke of ex-theatre wunderkind Martin McDonagh's clever, savvy and enjoyable revamp of the odd - couple / gangster caper, a genre picture confident its own audience - pleasing verbal sparrings, joke - enabling moral sophistry and tongue - in - cheek classical and cinematic borrowings — from Hieronymus Bosch's «Last Judgement» to Nic Roeg's «Don't Look Now» and every belfry, picaresque canal and famous seventeenth - century building in the «Venice of the North».

From its first sequence, the film uses the horror genre's picaresque potential to explore the severe ups and downs of Sao Paolo: Clara, an African - Brazilian would - be nurse, interviews to nanny for a rich white woman who turns out to be a single mother - to - be, Ana.

In his classic 1926 novel, Moravagine, Cendrars draws on the picaresque form to send his titular hero — a crippled brute given to raping and murdering women — and his psychiatrist, the ironically titled Raymond Science (the book's narrator) on a world tour in the years leading up to the Great War, taking them from Europe to America and back in a darkly comedic odyssey of destruction and non-enlightenment.

And tell it she does, in the picaresque confessional vein of Moll Flanders, through a series of episodes that chart her youth with her naturalist father (Christian Slater, whose transatlantic accent has somehow depreciated from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves), her early teen years as a budding sex addict (portrayed in flashback by Stacy Martin), her tumultuous on / off affair with her oily boss, Jerôme (Shia LaBeouf), and her later career as a torture artist in the employ of the mysterious L (Willem Dafoe).

Tyrnauer's camera follows him over several months as he meets up with old colleagues — some of them from his L.A. Confidential-esque gas stations days — who corroborate his picaresque tales.

Abrim with picaresque adventures — escapades that carry Jennet from King William's Britain to the fledgling American Colonies to an uncharted Caribbean island — our heroine's search for justice entangles her variously in the machinations of the Salem Witch Court, the customs of her Algonquin Indian captors, the designs of a West Indies pirate band, and the bedsheets of her brilliant lover, the young Ben Franklin.

The Art of the Wasted Day is a picaresque travelogue of leisure written from a lifelong enchantment with solitude.

Filled with Amy Tan's signature «idiosyncratic, sympathetic characters, haunting images, historical complexity, significant contemporary themes, and suspenseful mystery» (Los Angeles Times), Saving Fish from Drowning seduces the reader with a façade of Buddhist illusions, magician's tricks, and light comedy, even as the absurd and picaresque spiral into a gripping morality tale about the consequences of intentions - both good and bad - and about the shared responsibility that individuals must accept for the actions of others.

But when it was time for J.R. to leave home, the bar became an increasingly seductive sanctuary, a place to return and regroup during his picaresque journeys — from his grandfather's tumbledown house to the hallowed towers and spires of Yale; from his absurd stint selling housewares at Lord & Taylor to his dream job at the New York Times, which became a nightmare when he found himself a faulty cog in a vast machine.

If you've been looking to feast your eyes upon a change from the mainstream, this picaresque fiction is just the right choice this winter.

In new film from the ART21 New York Close Up series, artist Bryan Zanisnik hikes through the New Jersey Meadowlands landscape and exhibits his work «Meadowlands Picaresque» at the Brooklyn Museum.

From the gallery press release: This picaresque saga unfolds in an allegorical environment, much like the topographical constructions behind renaissance religious paintings.

«In early July a group of young Hong Kong artists [including Nadim Abbas] will travel to the village of Scuol in the picaresque Engadin valley in south - eastern Switzerland in order to take part in a residency program and to share information about their artistic practices with a group of artists from Switzerland and Austria...»

A wanderer steps out into the deep time of eternity and the straight path of a police bullet in the terminal sequence of the picaresque Bengali film Jukti, Takko aar Gappo (Reason, Debate and a Story) from 1974 by Ritwik Ghatak.