Sentences with phrase «great cinematic portraits»

Anchored by an exacting, measured but sweetly responsive lead performance by Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour is the best of many great cinematic portraits of Churchill.

Not exact matches

The film is handsomely mounted and Lewin uses an interesting cinematic device to great effect: he cuts to full color when the new portrait is first unveiled and when the aged, diseased image of Dorian is revealed after his descent into depravity, which provides a visual shock to the black and white drama and enhances to horror of the grotesque mutation of the painting.

A great mix of old and new cinematic gold, this year's lineup includes Ildikó Enyedi's Berlinale Golden Bear - winner On Body and Soul; Mrs. Fang, Wang Bing's unflinching document of an elderly woman in her final days, which won the Golden Leopard at Locarno; the North American premiere of Katharina Wyss's powerful debut feature Sarah Plays a Werewolf, about a woman who channels her fears into theater; Govinda Van Maele's fiction feature debut Gutland, featuring Phantom Thread's Vicky Krieps; the U.S. premiere of Slovenian director Rok Biček «s The Family, a compassionate portrait of a young man's life over the course of 10 years; and experimental artist Bertrand Mandico's exhilarating, gender - bending Wild Boys.

And it's definitely not a good portrait of Daphne Milne, but it is a great cinematic Selfish Mother trope.

A version of his cinematic portrait of Zidane — a black and white film in which the camera follows just the footballer in the space of a 90 - minute game and which was shown to great acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival — has also been bought by Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.