Sentences with phrase «of nonprofessional actors»

Both are helped by an excellent ensemble, many of them nonprofessional actors.

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A.A. Dowd of the A.V. Club finds the movie «aggressively maudlin,» but admits that if there's «any power to this manipulative movie, it lies in quiet dignity of its lead performance, delivered by a nonprofessional actor from an actual leper colony.»

At the center... lies the stunning Golbahari, a nonprofessional who recalls some of Bresson's most haunting model - actors in her intense, anguished grace.

As before, Bujalski's preference for nonprofessional actors, his ear for the rhythms of conversation among bright young 20 - somethings and his adept use of a roving, hand - held camera (this time shooting in fuzzy black and white) lend the film an invigorating energy.

He often works with nonprofessional or relatively untested actors, and so the addition of a two - time Oscar nominee like Dafoe brings a fresh charge to the work.

In Monte Hellman's hypnotic road movie Two - Lane Blacktop, folk singer James Taylor gives a lead performance that is both unassuming and arresting, the kind of askew, unshowy, vanity - free acting that perhaps only a nonprofessional actor is capable o...

And just as Bicycle Thieves employed nonprofessional actors, Fruitvale has its own methods of evoking a sense of realism.

Populated with utterly convincing nonprofessional actors (casting alone accounted for years of pre-production), the film gains its force through a steady accretion of seemingly minor incidents and inconspicuous subtexts.

He makes some interesting points about casting nonprofessional actors who can behave realistically onscreen, but mostly this is a painful round of questioning from someone armed only with minimal press notes, like «coming - of - age movie.»

Not all of these films are, strictly speaking, children's films, and some are documentaries; but most of them feature children, and in many respects they establish a particular kind of filmmaking that The White Balloon exemplifies: loosely scripted narratives with documentary elements that employ mainly nonprofessional actors.

Written and directed by the godfather of «mumblecore» cinema - a genre known for nonprofessional actors and naturalistic dialogue - Andrew Bujalski's latest film is practically a Hollywood blockbuster compared with his no - budget early films.

Kes brought to the big screen the sociopolitical engagement Loach had established in his work for the BBC, and pushed the British «angry young man» film of the sixties into a new realm of authenticity, using real locations and nonprofessional actors.

Nonprofessional actors play versions of themselves in Chloé Zhao's tale of a fallen rodeo rider.

Nonprofessional actors might have lent some authenticity to the mundane events, but it's hard to imagine one getting through the convoluted speechifying that makes up most of the dialogue.

Cast with utterly convincing nonprofessional actors, Western is a gripping culture - clash drama, attuned both to old codes of masculinity and new forms of colonialism.

Director Amat Escalante uses artful long takes, nonprofessional actors, and moments of abject miserableness — in one terrible - to - watch scene, a character has his genitals lit on fire — to sketch the story of a decent Mexican family churned up by their country's corrupt police force.

Bujalski's Funny Ha Ha, in 2002, was one of the first to be coined «mumblecore,» and the awkward but natural performances from its nonprofessional actors became a defining characteristic of the movement.

As in her earlier films, Ramsay mixes actors with nonactors, notably using a convincing nonprofessional in the role of Lanna.