Sentences with phrase «operatic melodrama»

From primordial incantations to operatic melodrama to hip - hop beats, artists are exploiting the elemental language of music to communicate across cultural boundaries Read More

For all it's paucity of RPG ostentation and operatic melodrama, Shining In The Darkness comes through where it counts: an approachable and entertaining combat system and a detailed variety of bad guys to hack through on your way to the ultimate confrontation with the proverbial darkness.

Gilded with ornate costumes and sets and a rich classical soundtrack, and featuring fearless performances, this operatic melodrama is an extraordinary evocation of reckless emotions and deranged lust, from one of the cinema's great sensualists.

Woo balances high octane action, hard edged violence, stylized editing that would make Peckinpah catch his breath, and operatic melodrama into an action movie classic.

Not exact matches

The third act plot turn which blights La Piscine is beautifully handled in A Bigger Splash, with the picture's operatic structure, along with Guadagnino's irrepressible flair for high melodrama, amplifying the sensory impact.

As she seeks her betrayer, we are treated to a grand operatic epic, from her Minnesota childhood, her escape to Europe as part of a traveling circus, her flight from the circus to the streets of Paris, then to a ritzy brothel, and finally to her emergence as a great singer and courtesan, with all the requisite reversals of fortune, melodrama and gorgeous costumes, gorgeously described.