Sentences with phrase «narrative about their family life»

«I can not tell you how many executives I meet who still cover their lives and have made up an entire false narrative about their family life,» she says.

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Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Reitman and Cody aren't especially interested in a narrative that's about a woman rediscovering the joys of family life — or, for that matter, one that's about a woman casting off those shackles, despite a late - movie sequence where Marlo and Tully tear it up in the former's old Bushwick haunts (complete with the perfectly and silently observed rigmarole of driving into Brooklyn from the suburbs even when there's not much traffic).

«Joy» (December 25): David O. Russell's biopic about Miracle Mop inventor Joy Mangano turns out to have more initial narrative ambition than most other life stories found at this time of year - this one reportedly covers four generations of Mangano's family, leading to the construction of their dynasty.

One of the most fascinating things about the movie is the way it builds its plot around members of Miguel's family, living and dead, as they battle to determine the official narrative of Miguel's great - great grandfather and what his disappearance from the narrative meant for the extended clan.

In a narrative showcasing her signature black humor and spot - on observations about life, Chast, an only child, also looks back on her family's history, exploring the identities of her volatile, strong - willed mother, Elizabeth, and her needy, anxious father, George.

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Running in The Proving is something Alloy dreams of her entire life as, not only will it allow her to re-join the Nora, but if she wins, she will be able to learn about her family and why she is an outcast and thus the narrative for Horizon is set.

The show, «To Wander Determined,» weaves together a fictitious narrative about two aristocratic Nigerian families, the House of Obafemi and the UmuEze Amara Clan, in a series of richly colored, intricately textured, life - size charcoal, pencil and pastel drawings.

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Although numerous books have been written about childhood incest and trauma, until now none of them has combined the best of what scientific psychology has to offer with detailed representation and narrative about the ways that childhood sexual trauma within the family context affects the lives of adult survivors.