Sentences with phrase «intimate social dramas»

While any portrait is both a document and a personal record of the relationship between the artist and his or her subject, blurring distinctions between public and private, portraits of artists further enrich the situation; they commemorate and concretize the intimate social dramas of the art world and the economies of exchange.

Not exact matches

By setting this intimate conflict against a wider social drama, Daldry makes his portrait of a dancer all the more compelling.

Winner of Best Picture Awards at numerous international film festivals including Sydney, Berlin and Fajr in its native Iran, as well as the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, the film is an intimate drama about conflict within and between two families of vastly different social and economic standings.

«While it has an activist purpose in common with many social issue documentaries of its ilk, VIRUNGA stands out by constantly folding its unsettling content into an intimate drama that doesn't take the high risk scenario for granted.

While it has an activist purpose in common with many social issue documentaries of its ilk, «Virunga» stands out by constantly folding its unsettling content into an intimate drama that doesn't take the high risk scenario for granted.