Sentences with phrase «layered film character»

Sorkin's words combined with Fassbender's performance (and Boyle's largely understated direction) makes for the most layered film character of the entire year — quite a feat considering that Jobs brings so much viewer baggage to the table.

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But she therefore typically can never be aware of the film's overall meaning or additional layers, as she has to stay in character and stick to what only her character knows.

And the triumph of the film is the balletic gracefulness with which the performances and style exteriorize the interior worlds of the characters — how voluptuously alive the film's layered approach to melodrama is to people hesitatingly approaching the bridge to freedom.

So may layers are peeled back slowly throughout the film, allowing the viewer to really feel each characters pain and burdens.

He creates a layered and fascinating character of a man most films would cast aside as a one dimensional villain.

The film also has an extra layer of fun guesswork built in because its characters are constantly explaining how magic tricks and misdirection work, so it's essentially giving you the answers while daring you to figure it out («The closer you look, the less you see») before the movie's over.

Jones brings the «fight» to the film He is spirited and sound and his journey as the character is beautifully rich and layered.

My criteria for a good film are: 1) Interesting, layered characters (these characters were bland), 2) a well - written and creative script (this script was AWFUL), and 3) a thought - provoking story (bland, generic story in Gravity).

However, rather than getting us to invest in these stock characters, the vast majority of the opening hour is ineffectual, with the film continuously hampered by a poor script that does little to add layers to its cast of players.

Sleek and scary, this bio-thriller has plenty of yuckiness to keep genre fans happy, but it layers in all kinds of interesting themes and character details to lift it far above most of these films...

Like a pulp riff on Luigi Pirandello's play «Six Characters In Search Of An Author,» the film adds layer upon layer of meta - fiction to the hilariously slight premise of a gangster chasing after the three petty dognappers who swiped his Shih Tzu.

The characters act in the way you expect, and despite Cianfrance's attempts to layer the film with long, sweeping moments and beautiful cinematography, it doesn't do much to elevate the story into something more unique, or at least more riveting.

In dreams, too, Laura Dern wouldn't also be passing through, but as layered as her performance in Wild may be, it's impossible to shake that the film's editing has so abstracted her character, however purposefully, that the performance itself feels only half - remembered.

This is all very subtle, in a way not found in recent film dramas, which choose instead to telegraph every reversal and layer the musical score over every character beat.

Like the Harry Potter films, Matthew Vaughn's (Layer Cake) treatment does spend an inordinate amount of time on secondary characters and superfluous side stories, to the point where it's hard to discern there being a main story for long durations.

It's deliriously happy to be a video game, but layers on Asian film influence, its plot starting as a curious murder - mystery, before billowing into an Infernal Affairs style tangled conspiracy as the four characters» tales begin to intertwine.

What makes it succeed is the film's respect for its characters and Huffman's fascinating and many - layered performance.

In fact, its character and rich emotional layers are what elevates the film from a precisely - told absorbing thriller into something much more potent and powerful: a breathtakingly harrowing tale of survival and grueling desperation that redefines the term «nailbiter.»

Baum was the one character in the film that had multiple layers and I personally felt like he was the one character with whom audience members would be able to connect.

Then Twohy starts layering in flashbacks to fill in the back - stories, up to an extended black and white sequence that sorts out the loose ends and sets things up for the frantic, action - charged climax.The first half of the film builds the atmosphere perfectly, establishing the characters with economy thanks to a clever script and an especially strong cast.

With layered story stelling, a fun whodunnit caper, wacky characters and a great visual style, The Grand Budapest Hotel is one of my favorite Wes Anderson films and one of my favorite films of 2014.

The result is a film that is amusing for the most part, but one that is interrupted by a story that thinks it is necessary to give an emotional layer to its characters.

«Southside With You» is a sweet, romantic film, but one that is layered with intelligence, relationship, and character building.

Christine promises to be one of those films in which an impending dread hangs over its entirety, but Hall's portrayal of the title character's descent into depression adds another layer of tense anticipation to the run up to the inevitable conclusion.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead gets even less screen time as Sutter's sister, but boasts one of the films most moving scenes while Dayo Okeniyi steps out of the «Hunger Games» shadow and proves he's got some serious talent, taking his character's quintessential big man on campus persona and peeling back the layers during an unforgettable moment with Teller.

This film even adds a layer of enjoyment to its distinctive, flavorful dialogue, as characters, including a screenwriter named Martin, write their own backstories and endings, sparking fanciful flashbacks and fantasy sequences.

The film gives us several layers to its lead character, but in trying to show off her strength, stamina, and poise in the wake of her husband's death, it sometimes threatens to demean her unintentionally.

These characters have layers to them, which is always something that most films about teenagers struggle to address.

His original screenplay was certainly layered in this way, with the characters appearing then reappearing at different times throughout the film.

Having since known all the songs used in the film, I marvel at the little layers that reveal themselves upon rewatching and realise that songs take up a big part of the story and serve as the voice of the characters in conveying what they want / feel much more evocatively and persuasively than non-sung words.

This sets the tone for a film filled with surprises as each layer of the characters is revealed.

And as the titular character in Todd Haynes» new film, Carol, Blanchett takes on yet another layered, complex role — the Platonic Ideal of a posh New Jersey housewife circa 1950 who's thunderstruck by a young Manhattan shopgirl named Therese (Rooney Mara).

But that doesn't mean there aren't darker edges to the character of Connie, and Rea, while always exhibiting a layer of vulnerability that is crucial to the film's success, also doesn't downplay the somewhat unsettling mystery about him.

Plenty happens, all of it rooted in character and held together by Brolin, who gives the film a layered epicenter through his memorable CGI / voice performance.

Whereas the prestige MGM films of the period are characterized by low contrast, brightly lit scenes and subtle soft focus, «Spellbound» adds extra layers of shadows and abstract patterns; and sharper detail, with a peculiar glow around the actors: characters glow with hypnotic power, as though the film stock was imbued with the luminescence of fine lead crystal.

What the film lacks in narrative coherence and momentum, rookie director Jerome Reybaud compensates with a layered character study about sexuality and fulfillment, an incisive glimpse into its bucolic setting, and a sometimes playful examination of technology's influence on relationships.

The relationships between the girl and other characters, like her father, could have been a little more developed to for that needed layer, especially towards the end of the film.

Whenever we see a film which features a CGI - character, we often overlook the actor beneath the many layers of technology...

They depict raffish black superheroes, blaxploitation film heroines and a brown clown - faced phallus — curvaceous characters with layers of dots, glitter - strewn resin and exotic backdrops — especially the radiating loops behind the goddesslike «She.»

In the work 8 the film's narrative is constructed through a single shot that gently pans and flows through a French castle inhabited by all the tableau vivants from Brandenburg's past works, threading together numerous theatrical scenes and layering historical characters such as chess players, ghosts and a sleeping man.

Ourhouse demonstrates Mellors» interest in exploring crossovers between the media of film and sculpture — particularly where forms can obscure the ideas that they purport to represent — from the episodic layering of the story to the transposition of an onscreen character into a physical sculpture in the gallery.»