Sentences with phrase «human drama about»

As a human drama about two people re-navigating the path they thought they were on when it suddenly becomes impassible, there is a lot to love about Forster and Sean Conway's («Ray Donovan») script, its early passages achieving an austere, surrealistic intimacy I was fascinated by.

It becomes the object of a legal battle, but moreover, it's the stage for a sad human drama about these two people.

Truthfully, we need relatable human dramas about everyday life.

Not exact matches

In addition to Bright, Netflix recently bought a war - movie satire by Brad Pitt and a drama about a Cambodian human - rights activist, directed by Pitt's wife, Angelina Jolie Pitt.

From a limited, bitter satire, Archibald MacLeish's verse drama grew into a larger, poetic statement about the human condition.

the possibility and necessity of living in a dimension of meaning in which the urgencies of the struggle are subordinated to a sense of awe before the vastness of the historical drama in which we are jointly involved; to a sense of modesty about the virtue, wisdom, and power available to us for the resolution of its perplexities; to a sense of contrition about the common human frailties and foibles which lie at the foundation of... our vanities; and to a sense of gratitude for the divine mercies which are promised to those who humble themselves.

When you are raising tiny humans very rarely can you make it right through to bedtime without some kind of drama, just don't let those difficult moments be the only thing you remember about your day when you are finally dragging yourself up to bed that night.

He was often at the center of any drama, but, unlike Sam, he had something relatable and human about him.

McDonald isn't seeking to make explosive drama about a human time bomb, preferring to show the many mood swings of real life.

As an uberfan of the so - bad - it's - good masterpiece The Room and a solid admirer of The Disaster Artist, The Room co-star Greg Sestero's tell - all book about the making of mysterious vampiric figure Tommy Wiseau's «Tennessee Williams style melodrama as told by an alien who has apparently never seen normal human beings interact» drama - turned - dark - comedy - after - initial - audience - reactions - full - of - howling - laughter, I was a bit reserved in my excitement when I found out that James Franco was going to direct the film adaptation, as well as portraying Wiseau himself.

Despite pretending to be an intimate drama about human relationships for a generous portion of the snooze - inducing running time, The Amazing Spider - Man 2 reveals an altogether more sinister purpose in its final throes.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

Gattaca director Andrew Niccol reunites with Ethan Hawke for this timely drama about the human costs of advanced war technology.

Curtis's free - floating anxieties are intended to connect up with our fears about the collapsing economy, about the safety of the world and our families, but Nichols never loses sight of the small - scale human dramas at the film's core

Variety «s Scott Foundas enjoyed the film saying «Jon Stewart's «Daily Show» hiatus yields a solid, powerfully acted political drama about human endurance in the face of ideological oppression.»

Writer / director Sebastian Lelio's drama is ultimately not just about tolerance — plenty of the supporting characters «tolerate» Marina while simultaneously having no idea what to make of her deep down — but about true love and acceptance of our fellow humans, all of whom have their own unique, often heartbreaking stories.

«GIRL ON THE BRIDGE»: A circus knife thrower (Daniel Auteuil) discovers a young woman (Vanessa Paradise) about to leap to her death in the Seine and hires her as the human target in his act in this romantic drama.

Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, the drama series «Westworld» is a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin, exploring a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged.

The other new worth watching trailer is for Paddy Considine's Tyrannosaur, yet another drama about violent human beings, but this one seems to have a bit more emotion to it than the Vincent Cassel one.

Sharply well - made and powerfully performed, this Italian drama weaves together three perspectives to explore a mystery that's so involving that it pushes the central theme about the value of a human life into the background...

Analysis: «Sideways» and «The Descendants» director Alexander Payne co-wrote this science fiction comedy / drama, about an Omaha couple (Matt Damon and Kristen Wiig) who opt in to an experiment to shrink humans to action - figure sizes, and place them in environmentally conscious ecosystems.

The Revenant, his latest cinematic creation, is a brutally effective drama about the power of the human spirit that was filmed in some of nature's harshest conditions.

The unconscionable exclusion of Amy Adams for her work in the impossibly human drama Arrival (about aliens) has managed to annoy everyone.

A wannabe - Sturm und Drang relationship drama between characters barely recognisable as human, The Room became a cult phenomenon for obvious reasons, because there's no possible doubt in the matter: it's obliviously terrible in ways just about anyone could see, save for its notorious creator, who poured $ 6 million of his own mysteriously - gotten savings into the project.

Other highlights are ADAMA a deeply moving animation about the life of a young boy in West Africa in 1914; Mamoru Hosoda's THE BOY AND THE BEAST, an exquisitely animated fable about a boy who has run away from home and is alone in the human world following the passing of his mother; Jury Feting's CELESTIAL CAMEL, a fascinating and thrilling tale about a 12 year old herder whose father has sold a young colt who may be the fabled «celestial camel»; Academy Award ® winner Gabriele Salvatores» THE INVISIBLE BOY, a charming coming of age tale about a shy boy, picked on by his peers, who gets his wish to hide from the world when he discovers a Halloween outfit that makes him invisible; Alexandre Heboyan and Benoît Philippon's hugely enjoyable CGI animated adventure MUNE, about a faun who lives in a faraway world; Studio Ghibli's beautiful drama WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE, directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi; and the World Premiere of Tim Clague and Danny Stark's WHO KILLED NELSON NUTMEG?

Unfortunately, he gets so wrapped up in the one - dimensional human drama and exposition - heavy plot that he seems to forget all about Godzilla.

Director Steven Soderbergh's big - budget thriller about the global spread of a mysterious illness stumbles by focusing too much on public policy and science and to little on the human drama as civilians and government officials race to stop the deadly outbreak.

You, the Living (Unrated) Ensemble drama, set in Stockholm, celebrates the human condition via a series of about fifty vignettes exploring a variety of philosophical themes ranging from love and loss to betrayal and redemption.

Some complained about that at the time — that the film was gorgeous but insufficiently developed as human drama, that characters were cyphers, that the technique was «intolerably artsy» and «artificial.»

While details about the new Darabont script are few and far between, he did reveal the Legendary Pictures release will explore some «very compelling human drama.»

Horror - action drama set in the near future about vampire hunter Vanessa Helsing (Kelly Overton), who has the unique genetic ability to turn vampires back into humans.

A film that is careful in its observations about human emotions, and which exudes serious drama - you care about these characters and hence you care what happens to them.

Ingmar Bergman («Autumn Sonata» / «Wild Strawberries» / «Fanny and Alexander») directs a darkly perceptive psychological drama about the human condition that exposes a dysfunctional family and its many unpleasant secrets.

The strangest and most uncompromising of all musician biopics, Jean - Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet's 1968 debut feature, The Chronicle Of Anna Magdalena Bach disregards most conventions of costume drama to ask some very human questions about history, what it takes to be an artist, and what movies can tell us about ourselves.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Another Earth (Unrated) Redemption drama about an MIT student (Brit Marling) and an accomplished composer (William Mapother) whose paths cross in tragic fashion on the very same night of the discovery of a mirror planet populated by duplicates of every human on Earth.

Whether or not it is designed as an allegory of modern Russia, no film in recent memory has examined the growing emptiness of human relationships with such expressive force as Andrey Zvyagintsev's («Leviathan») Loveless, a heart wrenching drama about a couple on the brink of divorce whose emotional neglect of their son leads to devastating...

The view from TIFF: Converting a book about stats geekery — the rise of OBP and walks, the fall of sacrifice bunts, stolen bases, and the intuition of veteran scouts — into a compelling human drama sounds more challenging than Miller, his screenwriters, and the cast makes it look.

The Zookeeper's Wife is a powerful, emotional fact - based drama about both the depth of human suffering experienced during World War II and the remarkable courage and strength of character that ordinary women and men demonstrated when their friends» and neighbors» lives were in danger.

Ex Machina is essentially a chamber drama about the secrets held and the lies told by two men and a machine that might as well be human.

is essentially a chamber drama about the secrets held and the lies told by two men and a machine that might as well be human.

But it's the ingenious screenplay that makes this film so amazing, weaving complex human relationship drama with clever comedy all wrapped around a story that actually speaks volumes about the way we interact with each other.

«My documentary work is known for transcending sensational subjects to tell compelling human dramas that raise many complex questions about human relationships and behavior.

It's filled with very special human drama that transcends the education film genre and is better than any fictional film that I've ever seen about schools.

From one of Israel's most acclaimed writers comes a novel of extraordinary power about family life — the greatest human drama — and the cost of war.

I've been writing about animals for many years, and I've become really curious about how often animal characters are simply vehicles for human dramas or desires.

The film isn't simply about the monsters being scary, but it also depicts the human drama and culture.

I mean, the Japanese magazine scans said it was going to be a squad based 3rd person shooter that was a drama about questioning what it is to be human.

AJ: Are the players in your painting dramas expressing something primal or animalistic about human nature?