Sentences with phrase «long as the heroine»

Worst - case scenario: The audience will start to feel like they've been trapped in the theater for as long as the heroine and her kid have been locked up.

Not exact matches

However, the Jewish Christians to whom Matthew was writing no longer thought of those women as sinners but as heroines.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

It features a terrific performance by Jennifer Lawrence as a heroine Sturges would have loved, the Long Island woman who invented the Miracle Mop and became rich selling it on the then - new able channel QVC.

As befits its reclusive heroine, it's largely a claustrophobic chamber drama, and arguably Davies's most uncompromisingly austere film since The Long Day Closes (92).

For probably long enough to give it a decent shelf - life, Ex Machina passes the genre sniff test about as well as its android heroine — an artificially intelligent being with the body of a European rising star — clears her own trial, a personal variation on the Turing test.

Blind for significantly longer — 20 years, brought on by an abusive mother — the feisty heroine of Michael Apted's under - appreciated Blink (1993), Emma Brody (Madeleine Stowe), may be more connected to the outside world than Susy and Sarah but her loneliness and alienation from living in perpetual darkness make her existence feel just as contained.

Not long after, someone will comment how, as an art installation, it's a withering indictment of junk culture, in response to which our ostensible heroine Susan (Amy Adams) intones, «Junk.

Indeed, the titular directive is actually thrown at Bell's socially awkward, commitment - shy protagonist Nancy — not as chaotic a romantic heroine as Amy Schumer's eponymous «Trainwreck» in Apatow's most recent venture, but a similarly welcome rejoinder to the kookily idealized fantasy women that have so long been prevalent in romantic - comedy terrain.

An underrated (in my opinion) actor and attempted counterpart to Larson's charismatic heroine of automatic weaponry, Cillian Murphy plays the almost level - headed one in a group of unstable individuals whose instability is apparently contagious as Murphy's character isn't long for sane choices and logical outcomes.

Not far into Lynne Ramsay's adaptation of Alan Warner's 1995 cult novel Morvern Callar, the heroine walks down a street at night in black tights and platform shoes, casting a long, fingerlike shadow on the pavement as a cat meows in the darkness.

Frequently filming his heroines through half - concealed doorways and rain - pelted windows, and employing medium and long shots as well as closeups, Haynes uses these obscuring, distancing visual devices with an unerring sense of thematic purpose, slowly pulling us into a veiled world where scandalous truths are hidden in plain sight, and only a privileged (or cursed) few can see them clearly.

Those ladies, showing us heroes and heroines and bending over us patiently to check our work as we sat around long Sunday school tables, were lifting us to higher places.

Jenny Offill's heroine, referred to in these pages as simply «the wife,» once exchanged love letters with her husband postmarked Dept. of Speculation, their code name for all the uncertainty that inheres in life and in the strangely fluid confines of a long relationship.

The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he has come to help; a grown daughter longs for mother love even as she comes to accept her mother's happiness in a foreign country; and the adult Lucy Barton (the heroine of My Name Is Lucy Barton, the author's celebrated New York Times bestseller) returns to visit her siblings after seventeen years of absence.

When she got out, she was no longer known as the «Heroine of the Hair Salon,» but as «that fat girl who got in trouble.»

It's a book with Christian priest as the heroine, a Cozy, comfortable mystery story, set in the country, with the rather conservative values of the country (which are actually quite tolerant, as long as you leave them alone, they're quite content to let you do your own thing.).

You will play as the heroine «Misa» in search of her long lost friend «Suzuka» who was spellbound by The Demon Blade and possesses strong powers.

Recently returned to attention after a long hiatus, Frankenthaler is being hailed not only as a covert naturalist — and, to be sure, a heroine of formalism — but also an unfortunate victim of her era's implacable misogyny.