Sentences with phrase «poignancy too»

Muriel's Wedding runs into trouble when it looks for poignancy too openly, working better at giddy moments than in its occasional sad ones.

Not exact matches

The problem with being too easily offended is that when things happen that warrant righteous anger, our outrage can lose its poignancy.

Some will find Camille too self - absorbed, yet writer / director Mia Hansen - Løve (Father Of My Children) conjures poignancy, grace and a feel for symbolic seasonal change that's positively Renoir-esque.

The laid - bare poignancy and touching immediacy of these films are exactly the kind of thing that is too often jettisoned by studio pictures; they're part of what makes indie film great, and connection with those common themes are, let's hope, a trend that we'll continue to see in independent film this year.

So, too, does Stallone gain more poignancy in those two films, not necessarily by doing things differently (in the worst of circumstances, he's pretty charming as Rocky) but by allowing his advanced age to sink in on screen.

There are times when The New Colossus overreaches for poignancy, and as a result it states its themes too overtly instead of letting them stand alone.