Sentences with phrase «melancholy rumination»

Written by Chris Sparling (best known for the Ryan Reynolds - trapped - in - a-coffin thriller Buried), Sea of Trees is a melancholy rumination that provides an earnest and believable portrait of personal, professional, and marital woes.

It's a beautiful, melancholy rumination on the capricious nature of success.

Closer «Milk Thistle» is a melancholy rumination on death that reaches no conclusions The journey is more important than the destination, he seems to be saying.

Not exact matches

Yes, the meals and the sightseeing were lovely, and Coogan and Bryden's Michael Caine impersonations are hilarious as ever (they up the ante by doing the entire cast of «The Dark Knight Returns»), but there's a palpable melancholy to the proceedings, as well as provocative and honest ruminations about friendship, ambition, aging, and family ties.

It is a literary experiment in which an unnamed narrator gives advice to a young man suffering from melancholy, taking him on an imaginary tour through the Louvre where his readings of Chardin imbue the everyday world with new meaning, and his ruminations on Rembrandt take his melancholic pupil beyond the realm of mere objects.

Through a wide variety of artistic practices and artists (from Claude Cahun to LaToya Ruby Frazier, from Gilbert & George to Cindy Sherman, and from Alighiero Boetti to Maurizio Cattelan) coming from different cultures and backgrounds, generations and experiences, it reflects on the contrast between different approaches: melancholy and vanity, ironic games played with identity and political autobiography, existential rumination and the body as sculpture, effigy or fragment, and its symbolical representation.