Sentences with phrase «lacerating self»

Clocking in at over four hours in two rich parts, at least in the edited version debuting this weekend at Toronto's Lightbox, it's a landmark of seriocomic storytelling that is simultaneously a satire of biographical tall - tales, a depressive's bildungsroman, and an alternately tender and lacerating self - portrait, defending all the Joes and Larses of the world for their obscenity without sparing them the lash.

The episode of coitus interruptus that follows sets a wry pattern for all of Isabelle's interactions with her many suitors (played by Nicolas Duvauchelle, Bruno Podalydès and others), in which the thrill of initial interest soon gives way to hesitation, disappointment and lacerating self - critique.

Set around a birthday party, it's one of the first features dealing with gay life on its own terms, including copious boozing, relationship strains and lacerating self - recombination.

While it's a quieter record than its predecessors, and her ceaseless questions and lacerating self - doubt would seem like the opposite of asserting an artistic identity, Shelley's absence of imposition only emphasizes her enviable patience and burgeoning tenderness.

Not exact matches

It is not as original, lacerating, or self - aware as Louie and Girls, the progenitors of this trend, or as good as Transparent, the perfector of it, but it contains a deep and precise character sketch....

Yet by framing these controversial manoeuvres as a suspenseful, noir - tinged thriller, Spielberg forces self - examination when it comes to the self - lacerating pleasures of state - sponsored blood revenge.

Compared to the rosier portrayals of the British elite in The Crown, Patrick Melrose lacerates a class of people whom centuries of self - indulgence have calcified into callousness and toxic absurdity.

The searching loss - of - faith drama First Reformed is the happy result of Paul Schrader's entering the what - the - hell - let's - go - for - it stage of his long and bravely self - lacerating career.

by Bryant Frazer Celebrated as an incisive, self - lacerating backstage spectacle and razzed as an indulgent and pretentious passion project, genius director - choreographer Bob Fosse's All That Jazz is one of the most ambitious American films of the 1970s.

With self - lacerating fury, the film posits racial violence as a kind of erasure.

As he rose to fame, he filled each page with self - lacerating admonishments and pleas to work harder.