Sentences with phrase «labyrinthine plotting»

It might have seemed fresher 10 years ago, before this kind of ironic labyrinthine plotting became common, but he has a sharp eye for characters and introduces Sally's parents (Shelley Duvall and Lanny Flaherty) during an apparent fast - food hostage crisis that dissolves into a marital spat before our eyes.

The final film presented a gargantuan challenge to its makers, who were required to juggle gigantic action scenes with emotional heft and jaunts into the metaphysical to explain its labyrinthine plot.

With «The Laughing Policeman,» he takes a labyrinthine plot and leads us through it at a gallop; he respects our intelligence and doesn't bother to throw in a lot of scenes where everything is explained.

Waters's labyrinthine plot is handled with the utmost care, and the characters — particularly the seemingly fragile Hideko — are beautifully sketched and performed.

The action kicks off when Marlowe is hired by the elderly and wealthy General Sternwood (Charles Waldron) to investigate a blackmail scheme; what the sleuth uncovers instead is a labyrinthine plot that involves murder and threatens to ensnare the millionaire's two daughters, the sultry Vivian Rutledge (Bogie's real - life squeeze Lauren Bacall) and the volatile Carmen (Martha Vickers).

Robert Altman's «Gosford Park» is above all a celebration of styles — the distinct behavior produced by the British class system, the personal styles of a rich gallery of actors, and his own style of introducing a lot of characters and letting them weave their way through a labyrinthine plot.

Whether or not Anna deserves to be committed must be left for the film itself to reveal; what is clear is the commitment of the cast and crew to a labyrinthine plot which is worth exploring, even if the ending leaves you wishing you could call a «memory detective» to explain it to you.

The labyrinthine plot follows the clandestine mission of Daniel Miller (Richard Armitage), newly arrived in a contentious CIA outpost in Berlin, to find and stem an Assange - like whistleblower called Thomas Shaw.

Its labyrinthine plot takes in three separate but just - about interconnected mysteries, with Joaquin Phoenix's shambolic private eye Doc Sportello pulling on all the threads from somewhere on the outskirts of the tangled web.

Although this was their debut, labyrinthine plots and double - crosses would become a staple of the Coens» work that followed.

Between the labyrinthine plot following the complex and competing interests of various governmental agencies, and the handheld digital film aesthetic adopted by Liman and cinematographer Cesar Charlone — slightly grainy, cutting frequently to close ups that foreground and slightly fisheye the faces in focus — American Made occasionally felt like a through - the - looking glass version of the adventures of Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell), a chronicle of semi-competence and good old fashioned greed.

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The plot is labyrinthine.

Written and directed by Dee Rees from a labyrinthine novel by Hillary Jordan, it's the kind of movie they rarely make any more — heavy on plot and character development and more literary than cinematic — but so skillfully directed, photographed and acted that it sucks you into its powerful emotional storyline from the start and holds interest to the finish.

Joaquin Phoenix will star in a role once earmarked for Robert Downey Jr., as a pot - smoking detective in 1960s Los Angeles who finds himself wrapped up in a labyrinthine crime plot.

If that sounds like the plot of a wonderfully salacious, labyrinthine Brian De Palma movie, that's because it is one — or it will be, God willing.

The suspicious death of adult movie star Misty Mountains (Murielle Telio) and the whereabouts of young Amelia Kuttner (Margaret Qualley) set plot wheels in motion, as March and Healy stumble into a labyrinthine web stretching from street - level anti-pollution activists to Kim Basinger's Department of Justice official Judith Kuttner (Amelia's mum) via catalytic converter conspiracies and giant talking bees.

Because there is such a complicated, polluted, labyrinthine past, both America's and this American's, and because none of it can be faced and corrected, this film does what is denied a whole nation: it pares down all troublesome memories, focuses the camera on Jack and occasionally on Clara and Jack, or Father Benedetto and Jack, or Mathide (Thekla Reuten) and Jack, and finds an untormented, easily digestible Hollywood «international underworld / intrigue» plot to house the whole.

Boasting a labyrinthine, impressionistic plot that you can either get hung up on the details of or allow wash over you in a haze of fragmentary images and evocative soundtrack details (we're more for the latter course, but both work out just fine), it's a prime example of a film that many will find frustrating in its opacity, but that brings a tenfold return on investment for those willing to let themselves be borne along by its currents.

'' eXistenZ is a sicko comic puzzle picture, with a labyrinthine conspiracy plot existing mainly to prop - up the filmmaker's heavily sexualized gross - outs.

A Washington conspiracy thriller in which «the bad guys are sufficiently evil, the plot properly labyrinthine, the solution to the mystery completely satisfying.