Sentences with phrase «mythic aura»

The mythic aura of this island begins high atop Mauna Haleakala, a towering, dormant volcano whose crater is big enough to hold Manhattan.

Guy Lodge gave «Beast» a strong review for Variety at Toronto: «Upgrading a sleeping - with - the - enemy premise familiar from countless B - thrillers with a faintly mythic aura and cool psychosexual shading, «Beast» also sustains a fresh, frank feminine perspective through Jessie Buckley's remarkable lead performance.»

That late - noir miasma lives on indelibly in Scorsese's masterpiece, though for all its actuality it acquired a mythic aura in a way that other searing films depicting contemporary necropoli have not, among them Neil Jordan's Mona Lisa (1986, London), Mike Leigh's Naked (1993, London), Wim Wenders's Land of Plenty (2004, Los Angeles) and Andrea Arnold's Red Road (2006, Glasgow).

Upgrading a sleeping - with - the - enemy premise familiar from countless B - thrillers with a faintly mythic aura and cool psychosexual shading, «Beast» also sustains a fresh, frank feminine perspective through Jessie Buckley's remarkable lead performance.

Not exact matches

In cultures such as those of Russia and Iran sexual and spiritual qualities tend to run neck and neck: the great Persian poet Forough Farrokhzad (1935 -» 67), a fan of Sylvia Plath, retains a mythic allure that combines the auras of Joan of Arc, Billie Holiday, and Marilyn Monroe.