Sentences with phrase «often films about women»

Not exact matches

Although there have been many films about pregnancy and the fears involved in having a baby, there are angles here not often taken before in comedy, including what goes through a man's mind when having sex with a pregnant woman («I don't want that to be the first thing the baby sees», etc.) that is funny (because it probably actually does go through a man's mind).

It's a simple film — about a woman getting over one relationship and into another, while also dealing with the delayed gratification that often comes when one pursues a life in the arts — but that simplicity can be deceiving.

Often as the film plays out I found myself just wanting to shove the ungrateful, delirious woman in a home and hear more about supporting characters like Frances de la Tour's nosey neighbor Ursula Vaughan Williams.

In the mid-century, «the problem that has no name» described by Betty Friedan had not yet led to the women's movement, and women in film and in real life often felt invisible, as though all women cared about was keeping the house clean and the children happy.

A delightful film about the gossip - filled lives of a group of women in Louisiana (ostensibly set in the year of its release, 1989, though often it seems to be several decades earlier), Steel Magnolias is lovely, with a very fine cast led by Sally Field and featuring Olympia Dukakis, Shirley MacLaine, Dolly Parton, Julia Roberts and Daryl Hannah.

Among the certainties in the world of film criticism — there will be a series of pieces bemoaning critics» inability to stop a terrible summer film from becoming a blockbuster; Armond White will often stake out a position in opposition to many of his fellow critics; movies about middle - aged men having their mid-life crises sorted out by women well out of their league will always receive mostly kind notices; etc. — there's one that stands above all others.

Though their 2014 film, about a woman (Marion Cotillard) trying to save herself from imminent redundancy, is cut from the same careworn cloth as previous features, it's another undeniably sublime and heartbreaking work about saintly self preservation, the struggles of working class life and the fact that it's often the smallest stories which deal with the biggest and most important ideas.

Marya E. Gates was frustrated, as we women often are, about some list that came out - I don't even remember what it was - oh right, the BBC's ludicrous list of the 100 Greatest American films or some such.

It casts doubt on whether quieter (often less masculine) films are really on par with The Revenant or Gravity and demands that women make a movie about bomb squads in Iraq to finally break into the club.

As we thought about how often ambitious women are more negatively construed than ambitious men, and how successful women, especially in film, need a «failing» of some sort to compensate for their success, we discussed how that failing, as previously noted by Corcos and Lucia, is usually a failing in their personal lives.