Sentences with phrase «picaresque journeys»

But when it was time for J.R. to leave home, the bar became an increasingly seductive sanctuary, a place to return and regroup during his picaresque journeys — from his grandfather's tumbledown house to the hallowed towers and spires of Yale; from his absurd stint selling housewares at Lord & Taylor to his dream job at the New York Times, which became a nightmare when he found himself a faulty cog in a vast machine.

His first film as writer - director was 1990's «Joe Versus the Volcano,» starring Tom Hanks as an ex-firefighter who goes on a picaresque journey after a scary medical diagnosis, and Meg Ryan as three different women he meets along the way.

Their picaresque journey, punctuated by campside evenings spent looking through slides of their past life, is going only one way - but these are outstanding performances, embracing age, by Sutherland and Mirren (despite a dodgy accent).

Not exact matches

Nevertheless, this is a superbly written, witty and sometimes picturesque - even picaresque - journey though the modern world.

Virgil's journeys have a picaresque quality, which can make the film feel overly precious — look, here's the drunkard figuring himself out, stumbling from one microcosm of the struggles of his people to another.

Director Richard J. Lewis» picaresque portrait of TV producer Barney Panofsky (Paul Giamatti), a blunt, irascible grouch, is a delight, a seemingly freewheeling journey through Barney's memories of a life that took in two disastrous marriages before he met the love of his life, elegant radio presenter Miriam (Rosamund Pike).

The Holy Mountain is an absurdist and picaresque satire depicting the journey of a Christ - like figure, the Thief, to a symbolic mountain that is said to unite Heaven and Earth.