Sentences with phrase «human comedy»

The courtroom is a very serious place, but once in a while, it becomes a theater for human comedy as the search for justice unfolds.

Based on his one - man show of the same name (which was in turn inspired by actual events from his life), the film is a witty, sharply written human comedy about professional rejection and the fear of commitment.

For Bob Sutton, leadership is not a set of abstract principles and behaviors but an expression of human comedy and tragedy.

Not quite every year brings a new Mike Leigh film, but the years that do are blessed with his sympathy, penetrating observation, and instinct for human comedy.

«the whole human comedy wrapped in a single, frail envelope of flesh.»

He crams those visually arresting minutes with as much deeply flawed human comedy as possible.

Operating in the Alexander Payne vein, co-directors Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn have crafted a perceptive human comedy about the insecurity / vanity that fuels creative personalities, and the disconnect between artists and their audience.

That's the sign of a successful human comedy — one that admits and indulges in the fact that its characters are human.

By focusing on the volatile relationship between brothers Micky and Dicky, Russell finds a wealth of emotional material, not to mention human comedy.

The intent regarding this humble human comedy is clear: to represent a community (the Hasidic culture of New York) and its language (Yiddish) in an unfiltered yet fictionalized fashion.

Yes, romantic comedies are stupid and predictable and follow a rigid formula, but we love them because they mirror our own human comedy, one that reflects our flaws back at us through a prettier face.

Instead of yuck, we get something wonderful: a scrappy human comedy that takes an honest path to laughs and is twice as funny and touching for it.

Sideways is a great human comedy.

There is rich human comedy here, and sadness, and a portrait so textured that we get very involved.

There's the footage here for a nice tight little human comedy, surrounded by scenes that should have been mercilessly cut.

It's this collision - course perception that makes «Blood Simple» such a gratifying, corrosive human comedy.

From awkward interactions to fractured relationships, Lynn Shelton is a master at capturing modern day human comedies, frequently focusing on characters in a state of arrested development.

Based on his one - man show of the same name (which was in turn inspired by actual events from his life), the film is a witty and consistently funny human comedy about the fear of commitment, and hands - down my favorite movie at this year's SXSW.

Betrayal, treachery, the loss of innocence and the scars of love, pave the road in this intense emotional and human comedy abou... Read On

Bill Holderman, who has been a producer working with, among others, Robert Redford's company, makes his directorial debut from a screenplay he penned with Erin Simms that, beyond its pitchable premise, is smartly written and developed as a very human comedy about people who don't often get to be the subject of mainstream movies, particularly in a summer season of superheroes and action films.

I wish I could say «Landline» pulled itself together into an incisive human comedy, but it's mostly merely cute on a scene - by - scene basis.

If this doesn't sound like the most rollicking set - up for a comedy, be forewarned that though there are many laughs in the picture, this is human comedy at a gentle pace, concerned with real issues that eventually lead to a third act climax of family drama.

Ofir Touché Gafla shows us how the touching, hilarious, and poignant human comedy continues on the other side - but a comedy finally faced with open eyes; one that reveals, as a mirror, the truth of our own lives here and now.

They career from human comedy to mind - numbing vulgarity.

Lady Bird is an absolute gem of human comedy and personal drama, a coming - of - age story turned on its ear by virtue of its intense female gaze and crushing human subtlety.

Easily the best frat boy comedy since Animal House, Neighbors crams its visually arresting 96 minute running time with as much deeply flawed human comedy as possible.

When Lina Wertmuller, the elfin feminist gadfly of Italian cinema, made SWEPT AWAY back in 1974, it was a tantalizing and brutal take on the war between the sexes, between the classes and on the whole human comedy.

Betrayal, treachery, the loss of innocence and the scars of love, pave the road in this intense emotional and human comedy about becoming a true boss of family and enterprise facing a world of unforgiving commerce.

Meanwhile, back here on earth, the human comedy has been renewed for yet another season.

As the TV evangelist repeats pious Amens, many of us in the viewing audience are likely to look upon the «cure» as a part of the human comedy that we don't understand.

For example, he says, Honoré de Balzac's The Human Comedy was released in serial form as a work of «popular» fiction, but has since attained the status of a classic.

This bittersweet peek into the human comedy has a more subtle charm than flashier films like the director's child - swapping fable Like Father, Like Son, but the filmmaking is so exquisite and the acting so calibrated it sticks with you.

Lorene Scafaria's Seeking a Friend for the End of the World is being promoted as a human comedy about the apocalypse, which is probably a wise move, and there is plenty of that flavor in it.

He is, simply put, one of our great contemporary observers of the human comedy.

In 2012, she completed work with Griffin Dunne on Justin Schwartz's film THE DISCOVERS, a human comedy about a dysfunctional family.

He also received a Best Actor nomination in 1944 for «The Human Comedy» and earned Best Supporting Actor nods in 1957 for «The Bold and the Brave» and 1980 for «The Black Stallion.»

It is a human comedy that touches the human factor.

So what, exactly, was the Spanish maestro of the human comedy thinking when he made this terrifically awful film?

He provides the role of straight man in the human comedy — and because he's such a good actor, he makes it look easy.

But these are defects in a movie that, for the most part, is bracingly perceptive about the human comedy.

The kind of fascination Mike Leigh generates is unlike almost anything else in the cinema, because it takes such chances, goes so deeply, explores the human comedy for its tears.

It is all beautifully choreographed by Mayer, who clearly has a knack for the material and gets the human comedy inherent in all of it.

There is no smarter director of wry and human comedy than Alexander Payne, whose filmography includes gems like Election, Nebraska, About Schmidt and Oscar - winning scripts like Sideways and The Descendants.

Brown is best - known for MGM family tearjerkers «The Yearling» (1947) and «National Velvet» (1946), which starred young Elizabeth Taylor and Mickey Rooney, who also starred in Brown's nominated William Saroyan story «The Human Comedy» (1944).

Clint Eastwood and Taylor Hackford did great jobs of trusting their respective stories, and Alexander Payne has pretty much perfected his approach to the human comedy.

Östlund's method, as always, is to stage the human comedy in miniature: Nearly every scene is presented as an impeccably framed tableau, a tactic that effectively transforms characters, extras and audiences alike into participants in a grand sociological study.

Are these scenes as successful as the human comedy that has preceded them?