Sentences with phrase «narrative strengths of film»

Not exact matches

At 134 minutes, the film may seem challengingly long, but the strength of its ensemble cast and unusually evolving narrative results in a satisfying watch that's reminiscent of tucking in with an engrossing book.

Trumbo «s narrative is well constructed; the real strength of the film is its screenplay.

There's much discussion about how the film is supposedly a game changer, how it's more in tune with the current zeitgeist as opposed to the traditional narrative strengths and linearity of a period piece like The King's Speech.

While the riches - to - rags narrative has its merit in themes of humility, the limited strengths of the film are ultimately too adrift and can not resuscitate the lack of engaging entertainment.

Your response to «Blue Night,» a first narrative film from director Fabien Constant («Mademoiselle C»), will very much depend on your response to Sarah Jessica Parker as a performer, for this is very much a vehicle for Parker, and it plays into some of her strengths and many of her weaknesses.

Given the traumatised storyteller, this narrative unreliability may be deliberate, but the film doesn't lead to some big twist concerning the strength of her memory.

That the film was built by shooting both family storylines separately, before weaving them together as they intersect, speaks to the strength of both narratives.

Engendering activism is one of the strengths that documentary has over narrative film; we see real people and real situations, secrets are exposed and unpleasant truths are brought into the light so that we can no longer ignore them.

Far from a series of empty stylistic flourishes and unrestrained fanboyism, Kill Bill demonstrates a keen understanding of narrative and character development — a reminder of why it is that Tarantino is possibly the most influential American director of the last decade on the strength of just four films.

At Hammonds House Museum in Atlanta, Weems's photographic series From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried, along with selected works and her 2016 film People of A Darker Hue, demonstrates the artist's strength as a storyteller, and as a powerful voice against racism, white nationalism, and the white - washed narrative of our country.