Sentences with phrase «life affirming film»

A wonderful, life affirming film.

The original black comedy about suicide, it is, in fact, an incredibly positive, joyous and life affirming film.

Not exact matches

Beyond those specifically Christian - affirming examples, add Frozen, Life of Pi (both the book and film) and The Help, all of which are brimming with wisdom and truth that are entirely complementary to the gospel.

Two years later, he could be seen in another high - profile, politically tinged thriller, this time opposite Denzel Washington in director Jonathan Demme's remake of The Manchurian Candidate.In 2005 he made his directorial and screenwriting debut with Everything Is Illuminated, and appeared in the critically acclaimed, Golden Globe - winning HBO movie Lackawanna Blues, a life - affirming film about a selfless black woman (played by S. Epatha Merkerson) in 1950s segregated New York who provides a home and a guiding hand to the youths who come to live at her boarding house.

Critics Consensus: Although Queen Latifah's bountiful life - affirming spirit permeates the film, director Wayne Wang is unable to revive this remake with any real flair.

The concert itself was a bold, life - affirming project, but with a couple of additional extended music sequences, Mr. Xido's film might have been more powerful and way more hardcore.

Critic Consensus: Although Queen Latifah's bountiful life - affirming spirit permeates the film, director Wayne Wang is unable to revive this remake with any real flair.

And this brief discussion, which comes at the end of the film, is what takes it from being fascinating to being eye - opening and life - affirming.

«There is a concern about filling seats as multiplexes seem moribund, and the life - affirming film is the way to go.»

It's the stark, life - affirming contrast that gives this film its unexpected emotional power.

The near miss Henry Poole is Here is a sincere attempt at an inspirational, spiritual, life - affirming film.

When seven cash - strapped seniors decide to retire to an affordable resort in far - away India, friendship and romance blossom there in the most unexpected ways in this smart, life - affirming, genuinely charming film.

Zinnemann's film would seem to be the perfect vehicle for such purposes, with its equal - opportunity combination of hard - nosed realism and life - affirming humanism.

Slumdog Millionaire is an utterly magical film, transporting the audience to a place of abject poverty and human degradation, and yet somehow becoming a life - affirming and profoundly moving love story.

Commented Andreotti: «The campaign highlights the relationship between these two complex characters, and communicates the delicate, bittersweet tone and life - affirming message found in the film.

«You Were Never Really Here,» Ramsay's first action film, is dark and violent, but also life - affirming, in its way.

Majidi, well - known Iranian director, has made such life - like, life - affirming films as Children Of Heaven and The Song Of Sparrow.

«We're thrilled to be working with her and the team at Pretty Pictures on this wonderfully life affirming, funny and heartfelt film about coming to terms with your past to face your future.»

It's hard to believe that this is the same Hedges who helped adapt Nick Hornby's About a Boy into such a satisfying, authentic, life - affirming film and wrote the highly - regarded What's Eating Gilbert Grape and its source novel.

Even more paradoxically, for a notoriously tough, unsentimental genre, Ray's film presents a sympathetic portrait of the doomed outlaw lovers, who, as the opening credits affirm, «were never properly introduced to the world we live in.»

There is such an immediate and visceral feel to the whole film that the taboo desires depicts are often both sensual and repellant, beautiful and gruesome, life - affirming and destructive.

At the film's recent press day, Moretz, Blackley, Leonard, Cutler, Forman and Cross discussed bringing the emotional experience of the book to the screen, the challenge of finding the right cast, Blackley and Leonard's preparation for their musical roles, creating the onscreen chemistry in the relationship between Adam and Mia, Stacy Keach's heartfelt portrayal of Gramps, Forman's reaction to seeing her novel adapted to film, and Cutler's desire to recreate the roller coaster experience of the book but tell a story that's ultimately life affirming and has a positive message.

Working alongside Wilson creator Clowes, Johnson has a tough time balancing the films tonal shifts between oddball comedy, life affirming drama and romantically tinged musings and it often feels like the film is uncomfortable in its own skin as we're taken along from scene to scene and scenarios that worked in the graphic novel don't quite come across as well in the film treatment.

Most fans of film — whether they be filmmakers, film writers, or just fans — have that one special, life - affirming film that reminds them why they feel so strongly about the medium.

Their respective, life - affirming romances with Andy García, Don Johnson, Richard Dreyfuss, and Craig T. Nelson — along with the film's tastefully appointed, Nancy Meyers-esque aesthetics — should call out like an uncorked bottle of chardonnay to its intended audience.

Don't let the inscrutable title put you off: Destin Daniel Cretton's film about a home for at - risk teens is, as I argued at the time, «a genuine stunner, a work of ardent, life - affirming humanism.»

Take a look below... SEE ALSO: Read our reviews for Room here and here An intensely powerful and wonderfully life - affirming experience, Room is the new film from acclaimed -LSB-...]

Following on from the latest UK trailer [watch it here], we now have a new UK poster for Lenny Abrahamson's award winning drama Room starring Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay; check it out... SEE ALSO: Read our reviews for Room here and here An intensely powerful and wonderfully life - affirming experience, Room is the new film from acclaimed director, -LSB-...]

Call Me by Your Name is a sad, sweet, and life - affirming film — but it's also a funny one.

As one New York Public Library official declares passionately in the film, «We do mind - building, soul - affirming, life - saving work.»

So, it's a film of two halves - both equally devastating but also life - affirming.