Not exact matches
With «Cedar Rapids,» the filmmakers seem to put too
much faith in their material, thinking that it would be funny enough to carry the whole
film without them having to put too
much thought into the story.
it is a honest and wise
film, very
much Christian (Catholic)
in its spiritual
faith, if I am right.
There really isn't
much room for ambiguity
in the multiplexes, and, tellingly, there's not
much room for Annihilation
in them, either — Paramount, the studio that produced the
film, lost
faith in the resulting weirdness of the finished project and sold off most of the international rights to Netflix (which has been making itself a home for sci - fi studio discards recently).
Take Shelter (d. Jeff Nichols)
Much ink has been spilled about the closing moments of Jeff Nichols's sophomore effort, yet the real mark of his intelligence is not his ambiguity about the
film's apocalyptic elements, but rather his restraint
in framing them as personal matters of
faith between a married couple who are about to weather any number of crises, not all of them earth - shattering.
But for as
much faith as Soderbergh has placed
in the tough - as - nails newcomer, it was smart to surround her with actors like McGregor, Fassbender and Banderas, who will undoubtedly improve the
film beyond the typical January fare.
I don't have quite as
much faith in director Pete Travis (Vantage Point), but I think there's still a very good chance this will be an improvement on the original
film.
While
much of the
film is about
faith, Eastwood appears to have lost his long - standing
faith in his audience.
But none of the performances can cover the fact that the
film - makers don't seem to have
much faith in the twist
in the source material.
He isn't out to terrify us — he's out to corrode our souls,
much in the same way that his protagonist's
faith is corroded after being subject to both divine and infernal tests over the course of the
film.