Sentences with phrase «picaresque about»

That film, based loosely on the novel by Irvine Welsh, was a giddily stylish picaresque about a group of twentysomething friends scoring heroin at every opportunity in Edinburgh.

But this LFF screening means you have no excuse to miss this grotesque picaresque about parental responsibility which features perhaps the funniest assisted death sequence ever laid down on film.

Take Catch Me If You Can (2002), a propulsive, fact - based picaresque about the youthful con man Frank Abagnale Jr., who scammed his way across America in the early 1960s by adopting a series of ersatz personas.

Not exact matches

It is hard to say just what Moby - Dick, Melville's greatest and most famous work, really is: a metaphysical Romantic tragedy about Captain Ahab's sexual obsession with an enormous white whale; an immense picaresque comedy about sailing; or a serio - comic grand opera that begins with the narrating Ishmael bored by the streaming crowds of New York and ends with him alone in the ocean, floating on the harpooner Queequeg's coffin.

Thus the Coens» film: nominally a movie about the travails of a trio of chain - gang escapees making their way across Depression - era Mississippi; in fact, a picaresque musical romp and arguably their lightest cinematic fare to date.

It's a picaresque New York indie about a socially inept, emotionally damaged, stuttering motormouth named Keith Sontag (an insanely ambitious, almost fully - realized performance by first - time actor Dore Mann).

(1973) was Anderson's most ambitious production, a picaresque epic about the futility of ambition.

John Kennedy Toole's hilariously picaresque novel about the implacable Ignatius J. Reilly: a «huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter - day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter» and his adventures in New Orleans.

Filled with Amy Tan's signature «idiosyncratic, sympathetic characters, haunting images, historical complexity, significant contemporary themes, and suspenseful mystery» (Los Angeles Times), Saving Fish from Drowning seduces the reader with a façade of Buddhist illusions, magician's tricks, and light comedy, even as the absurd and picaresque spiral into a gripping morality tale about the consequences of intentions - both good and bad - and about the shared responsibility that individuals must accept for the actions of others.

«In early July a group of young Hong Kong artists [including Nadim Abbas] will travel to the village of Scuol in the picaresque Engadin valley in south - eastern Switzerland in order to take part in a residency program and to share information about their artistic practices with a group of artists from Switzerland and Austria...»