Sentences with phrase «moving film about families»

Not much happens in The Midwife, but its depth and texture make this a moving film about families, time passing and shared history — and the handful of scenes in the maternity unit where Claire works, five or six little miracles of birth, somehow add to its sense of a life as mysterious and precious.

Not exact matches

The films that seem to fall out of that purview, About Schmidt and Morvern Callar, show themselves ultimately to be pictures moved by the deaths of a loved one or, as with Wendigo, studies of the dynamics of family from surface ideal to subversive schism.

The film concerns a seemingly normal, middle class Austrian family, husband and wife Georg and Anna, and daughter Eva, going about their mundane, daily activities, until one day, Georg quits his job and declares the family is moving to Australia (hence the film's title).

Paddington is a PG - rated family film about a talking bear who moves from the jungles of Peru to London.

Emma Fuhrmann: The film is about Morgan Freeman's character Monty who moves in next door to where my family lives.

I caught some of the titles: Nugu - ui ttal - do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is a delightful film from the South Korean auteur Hong Sang - soo, the story of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its fiction.

For this latest episode of Film Club, A.A. Dowd and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky return to Farmhouse Tavern to talk about three excellent smaller films in theaters or coming soon to them: Richard Linklater's»80s campus comedy Everybody Wants Some, now in theaters everywhere; the smart, moving family drama Louder Than Bombs, which opened in select theaters today and will expand in the coming weeks; and the forthcoming punk - rock thriller Green Room, which begins its theatrical release next week.

Sinister (Solid Rock Fist Up)-- Ethan Hawke makes his horror film debut in this twisted tale about a true crime writer so desperate for another hit he moves his family into the home of a grisly murder.

Yance Ford's debut feature is a deeply moving, complex film about a family murder, memory, injustice and the institutional racism that continues to pervade America's legal, social and economic systems.

For decades, movie audiences have loved his work in films spanning just about every genre: Poltergeist, Stir Crazy, All The Right Moves, The Family Stone and The Proposal.

Kinoshita's ambitious and intensely moving film begins as a multigenerational epic about the military legacy of one Japanese family, before settling into an emotionally complex portrayal of parental love during wartime.

According to Deadline, Rosemarie DeWitt took the role in the film about a family forced to move to an old suburban home for financial reasons and winds up going up against a malicious spirit in order to rescue their youngest daughter.

Not just a good boxing movie, but overall a moving and well told film about a family's journey.