Sentences with phrase «parts social realism»

Not exact matches

If we can say that the 48th New York Film Festival offered films that were for the most part concerned with social issues, we certainly can not accuse the selection committee of putting together a one - note program, or of being restricted only to socially conscious films produced within the traditions of film realism.

Our reaction: «A touch schmaltzy in places and the wraparound story distracts, but, for the main part, this is stunning social - realism from Lebanese director Nadine Labaki as a 12 - year - old boy and his one - year - old charge battle to survive on the streets.

Part of the Rive Gauche film movement (the nouvelle vague's even more rebellious sibling) she created films that deal with mortality, time and a revised social realism.

By the 1930s, Regionalism, along with its ethical cousin Social Realism formed part of a broad movement known as American Scene Painting, which struck a popular chord with many people, not least because it offered a positive antidote to the gloom of The Great Depression which was ravaging the country.

It is part of a long established tradition of social realism, which maintains a close connection between the camera's unguarded eye and the democratic imperative to look directly at life, including the unsavory and the unseen, in a specific and unidealized way.