Sentences with phrase «operatic story»

Does the 19th century operatic story maintain its initial revolutionary potential?

But if you relish a mindless soap operatic story that leans into the silliness of the genre, Fifty Shades Freed might do the trick.

Not exact matches

That's the story of paleoanthropology, at least according to Ann Gibbons's book The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors (Doubleday, $ 26), a deliciously soap - operatic account of efforts to trace human ancestry through the study of fossils.

All influenza viruses ultimately come from birds, and the paper begins the somewhat operatic and knotty story of this outbreak's origins with an H1N1 first isolated in swine in 1930, which itself was a close relative of the virus that caused the 1918 pandemic in humans.

Beautifully shot and operatic in scope, the filmmaking is remarkable even if the story - telling is perplexing.

Though this execution could verge toward the excessively operatic, as in the heavy - handed De Mayerling à Sarajevo (1940), these managerial efforts largely paid off, with a variety of fine performances across the generic and national spectrum: a spirited Lien Deyers in the tongue - in - cheek The Company's in Love; Magda Schneider, who also starred in Ophuls» Love Story (Une histoire d'amour, 1933), as the tragically morose Christine in Liebelei, her final despair registered in an extraordinary extended close - up; and acting luminaries James Mason, Barbara Bel Geddes, and Robert Ryan, searing in Caught's three - way confrontations.

In boldly operatic and unapologetically allegorical terms, The Conformist presents the story of Marcello Clerici (Jean - Louis Trintignant), a sexually indecisive and morally persuadable man who tries to get himself to focus by being a good fascist.

Renner feels contemporary, despite the mustache and hair pomade, and when he's around he normalizes a story that might threaten to go too operatic otherwise.

And like a latter - day Douglas Sirk, Almodóvar loves stories about gorgeous, creamily photographed people who commit soap - operatic acts in picturesque settings.

, and Australia — Luhrmann is too afraid of actual intimacy, and covers it up in glitter and other shiny objects while laboring under the delusion that it makes the story operatic.

Florence Foster Jenkins tells the true story of an operatic singer who lacked vocal talent but had an abundance of money.

Intent on making definitive, album - length statements, spurred on by his obsessive competitiveness with The Beatles («Rubber Soul» predates «Pet Sounds», and though Paul McCartney cited «Pet Sounds» as a primary influence on «Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band», the release of that album is often blamed for Brian Wilson's nervous breakdown), and sensing the opportunity in 1966 of being at the vanguard of the psychedelic movement with a follow - up album (the never - completed «Smile»), the story of The Beach Boys and Brian Wilson is as operatic and tinged with ironic destiny as an Aeschylean tragedy.

A revolution then happens, and it is handled with the same facetiousness of a love story in which characters fall in love through first sight — more fitting to musicals than the operatic reality achieved in the first act.

Though the operatic dissonant relationship between Jean Valjean and Russell Crowe's Javert does prove to be compelling opera as it weaves throughout the rest of the story, the film's second act focus on the story of rich pretty boy Marius (Eddie Redmayne, whose singing voice is 45 percent Kermit the Frog) falling for Cosette (Amanda Seyfried) at first sight doesn't register nearly the same amount of urgency, feeling like a silly problem that doesn't fit into the story's near - apocalyptic presentation of revolutionary France.

When asked about the story behind the theme of the Velvet Room, one of the recurring motifs that ties together the individual episodes of the Persona game series, Meguro related that when he first entered Atlus he was asked if he could write a soprano solo vocal track, something operatic for a moody environment in the game.

In 1999, Laurie Anderson mounted her operatic take, Stories and Songs from Moby - Dick, on Melville's classic at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

The exhibition showcases how operatic characters and stories were represented in pictorial and decorative motifs in a wide array of media including ceramics, illustrated books, painted fans, prints, photographs, scroll paintings, and textiles.

For Soap - Operatic he borrows from Choose Your Own Adventure children's books, in which readers are given choices to how a story unfolds.

Thai - born, Los Angeles - based artist Nuttaphol Ma combines elements of Greek myth, Western operatic form, and European weaving to create a maze - like installation based on a story of migration and survival in his installation Ruins of Daedalus» Labyrinth.

Unlike certain other recent operatic performance - based works of a much larger scale — remember Ragnar Kjartansson's «Bliss» — Singh's piece has a serious, comprehensive story and stands on its own as a sincere piece of theater.