Sentences with phrase «melodramatic turns»

That sense of guilt and / or discomfort coupled with a certain morbid curiosity goes a long way to heightening the impact of the admittedly rudimentary and melodramatic turns to be found in Baker and Chris Bergoch's screenplay.

The fairly packed audience started vocally reacting «Rocky Horror» - style to some of the more overtly melodramatic turns with «oohs,» «ahhs» and even laughter.

The film's story doesn't exploit the terror of the Blitz, although that means some of the film's later melodramatic turns have to be devised out of unrelated tragedy.

The story takes a melodramatic turn when the beloved stuffed bunny is left behind.

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The most important has to do with the structure of the play, which turns the story of the Passion into a melodramatic clash between on the one hand the good Christ and his followers (including by implication the entire Christian Church), and on the other the evil Sanhedrin and its followers.

Despite that rather melodramatic beginning, marathon running developed into a comparatively low - risk event, or at least it was until England's Chris Stewart, the third - place finisher in both the 1976 and»77 New York Marathons, turned the ancient Greek legend on its head and began running relief supplies across sniper - infested battle lines and into the broken heart of Croatia and Bosnia - Herzegovinia.

The film is partly an impressionistic chronicle, by turns comical and melodramatic, of her affairs — the French word is histoires — with various unsatisfactory men.

Very disappointed that this turned out to be a melodramatic «people are horrible when cut off from society» show, as opposed to a science fiction show.

I didn't care how their marriages or affairs turned out; I just wanted the slow, melodramatic music to stop and the movie to end.

The poorly directed «Turn the River» wastes a good cast in a failed attempt to capture the atmosphere of smoke - filled pool halls by going for a melodramatic premise that ends on a false note.

Although the noted writer / director continues his trend of capturing excellent performances from his leading ladies (having worked with Jane Birkin in La Fille prodigue, her daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg in Amoureuse, Juliette Binoche in La Vie de famille and Isabelle Huppert in La vengeance d'une femme), The Three Way Wedding fails to turn its significant female presence into anything more than an expressive yet insubstantial feature, instead existing in the space between amusing and neurotic, and passionate and melodramatic.

«Turns the heartbreak and bloodshed of Indian partition in 1947 into a lush costume drama full of political intrigue and melodramatic romance in this not - entirely successful mix of Bollywood and Merchant - Ivory conventions» — KT

And while some of the plot turns feel overly melodramatic, they also work as self aware moments that remind us how easily films can evoke emotions from us.

If you don't mind the melodramatic tone, both Bening and Bell reportedly turn in stellar performances, and the film tells the story of their romance in flashback, allowing plenty of time for the actors» chemistry to build and create a satisfying and plausible relationship.

Unfortunately, Egoyan allows his film to take a melodramatic, third - act turn that extinguishes much of the tension he so successfully builds in the first half of the movie.

One gimmick wasn't enough for director - cowriter Arie Posin, who continually twists and turns the events in ways that are both bizarre and melodramatic.

Documentarian turned film director Gabriela Cowperthwaite, keeps this war thriller and emotional drama away from melodramatics.

As thousands of families throughout Chicago watched anxiously, the process of negotiating a collective bargaining agreement turned melodramatic at a Chicago Teachers Union Labor Day rally.

Both Peter and Annie seem older than 12, and some of their experiences take a sharp turn into the melodramatic.