Sentences with phrase «jaunty tone»

A string of multicolored mummified voles dangle from the ceiling like carnival lights, adding a jaunty tone to the perverse proceedings, while a popular music soundtrack programmed never to repeat a single song plays endlessly.

Not exact matches

Each of the four travellers has a distinct back - story, and the script perhaps tries too hard to keep the tone jaunty and cute.

Anton Karas's fabulous zither theme perfectly captures the tone of the film, managing to be jaunty and slightly sinister at the same time.

Director Peter Lord's last credit behind the camera was 12 years ago with the jaunty «Chicken Run,» and I think that's the tone he and co-director Jeff Newitt were going for here: fast and loose.

Opening scenes in which a jaunty song about breakfast and lively encounters with Umi's housemates are juxtaposed with her lonely ritual of flag - raising, set the tone for the film's balance of postwar optimism and sense of possibility with the lingering melancholy of absence, loss and longing.

The interior isn't of a material quality to match medium - sized rear - drive cars from Germany and it insists on playing rather too many bongs and tones including a jaunty jingle that comes in when you switch off the engine and which invariably clashes with the music still coming out of the stereo.