Sentences with phrase «poignant ends»

Human frailty and our irrational impulses, the body and its sensorial extensions - the probing eye and the disembodied voice - are set loose to subversive, often poignant ends.

Other artists» approaches to filmmaking approximated various tropes and moods of poetry, bending the medium to poignant ends alternately vested in distance and immediacy: Stanya Kahn's evocations of abject absurdity through stand - up comedy; Barry Doupe's alienated dreams told in disjointed narrations and flattened, chromatically charged figurations; Ryan Trecartin's bewilderingly familiar stream - of - consciousness rants grounded by a intuitive, cinematic fluidity.

It also stakes new claims on methods and narratives that the artist will hopefully continue to explore to poignant ends.

«Anatolia» is a long one, but it's consistently rewarding throughout and eventually leads to one of the most poignant endings of this year (read our review).

Moral implications aside though, it's a well written, well acted and enjoyable tale with a nicely poignant ending.

The final segment, a fantastical exploration of roads not taken, ranks with the poignant ending of «Umbrellas,» and that's high praise for lovers of glamorous cinematic melancholy.

The second half of the film follows a combat photojournalist who's anxious to be in combat so that he can get his confirmed kill, and when he finally does - well, that's the film's poignant ending.

It's a poignant end to a funny, smart book.

Though perhaps less cinematic than some of King's other works, this quietly moving and thought - provoking book, with its unexpectedly poignant ending, is a compelling tale.

Such a tale could turn predictable, but To Any Soldier does not take the easy path, and the outcome remains uncertain to the very poignant end.

«Bestseller Leon's enticing 26th Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery... Along the way to the poignant ending, Brunetti develops insights into nature and humankind's failure to protect it, as well as the nature of guilt and its role in a man's life.»

Not exact matches

But the phrase at the end is so poignant: «If you're good at something, never do it for free.»

Possibly I would be acquitted, and possibly not, but you would certainly have a last moment of poignant regret in which you wondered whether the enjoyment you got from shaming a stranger was actually worth it in the end?

Having been close to a number of people who've died before me including my father, I agree that an explanation for the most poignant emotions we've expressed and been involved in is where we look for meaning at life's end.

All acts of «self - sacrifice» have the poignant element of «not knowing» the end.

At the end of Lolita, Humbert Humbert hears the laughter of children playing and says, «Then I knew that the hopelessly poignant thing was not Lolita's absence from my side, but the absence of her voice from that concord»» that is, her absence from the world of children.

Despite warning Brian that «the tuna was crappy yesterday, it was crappy the day before, and it hasn't changed,» these sandwiches set the stage for one of the most poignant and long - running romances in the franchise, which ended only with Walker's untimely death in a real - life car accident in 2013.

I end here on a poignant note.

But it does feel poignant, so we are going out to celebrate this would - be end to our pregnancy.

A somewhat poignant place to end the tour.

I spend $ 600 and the better part of two days in the JOCRF, being poked and prodded and tested for a total of seven hours, and it is only toward the end that I put my finger on the poignant center of gravity, which is that I haven't seen anyone else having their aptitudes tested.

The story is beatifully crafted in both writing and cinematography, smart, elaborate and so incredibly poignant, think the end of MGS3 and multiply it by 5, that there are scenes where you litterally feel all your senses soaring.

And yet, Tangerine is unabashedly a Christmas story, and one that ends with a simple, poignant gesture of empathy and generosity.

It has its poignant moments but begins to get really irritating; about ten minutes from the end of the film, I actually asked myself out loud «How much longer do I have to deal with this guy?»

But Wonderstruck's crystal clear ending brings everything to a nicely poignant head, and the film will linger in the imaginations of many kids and their parents.

After all the film's raunchiness, profanity and abuse, though, «Tangerine» ends on an unexpectedly poignant note.

Sometimes it's awkward playing dance video games with Jennifer Connelly and often it's a little uncomfortable to reenact your director's first time, but when you've got strong talent and a good friend by your side, you end up with charming and poignant material like Nat Wolff and Liana Liberato did with «Stuck In Love.»

It is a phantasmagoria of extraordinary action sequences and beautifully poignant moments that nevertheless leaves one cold in the end.

It doesn't seem quite sure whether it wants to be mainly funny or mainly poignant, and in the end, isn't much of either.

The struggle within the film is the same as the struggle without, then, as Crick tries to determine whether or not Eiffel's calm (and, as it happens, excellently - written) exposition will result in his poignant death or — good for him, bad for us — in his resurrection as a bland, non-descript leading man in another piece too frightened to allow itself the most appropriate ending.

But Nichols, gifted with an eye for suggestive empty spaces and landscapes, creates something ambiguous, poignant, and ultimately transcendent, risking much on performances, unspoken internal conflicts, and an ending that seems to reveal too much, but not really.

I was grateful for that and it ended up being a very poignant way to end the movie.

Happily, it ends on a strong note, as Clouds is a typically smart, incisive, beautifully crafted analytical exercise from Olivier Assayas, serving as a companion piece to both Irma Vep (with which it shares a knowing film - world milieu) and to Summer Hours (in its poignant juxtaposition of generations).

The end result is not only an extremely well - made survival thriller, but a poignant celebration of the human spirit that deserves to be seen by all.

Surprisingly poignant, and it proves Marilyn Monroe's point about aging: «Gravity gets us all in the end.»

Gorgeously presented, emotionally resonant, and superbly constructed, it is a subtle, poignant, and ultimately moving story of two people who start off by giving up on past loves to explore a newfound life, but instead, end up giving past lives in order to explore newfound love.

The humor can also be overly silly at times, more befitting a cartoon than a subtle independent comedy with melancholy beats, and the action elements toward the end, including car chases and destruction, feel like they belong in a spoof of 1980s blockbusters more so than in a poignant story about two misunderstood and withdrawn characters finding ways to come together.

Being Flynn does pick up the pieces in the final act to deliver a poignant tale of survival for both father and son and ends on a surprisingly positive note with both men coming to an amicable relationship.

Shaun was more sly and more poignant, in the end: Zombieland has no time for cunning or the gentler emotions when there's the walking — and frequently running — undead to be dispatched posthaste, and with accompanying wisecracking (though some of that does ripple with surprising undercurrents of gentleness).

With a surprisingly poignant and sad ending, this one is a keeper.

Still, the film ends on such a perfectly poignant note that the sudden detour into melodrama is somewhat forgivable.

One Lucky Elephant (Unrated) Poignant, pachyderm - whisperer documentary examining the end of the relationship of the ailing owner of a traveling circus and the orphaned, 18 year - old elephant he'd rescued in the wild and raised practically from birth.

For the balance of the film, production designer Boris Levin's sets present a richly poignant view of working class mid-century Manhattan, right down to the graffiti - style end credits.

LUCKY features Harry Dean Stanton's final, and perhaps finest performance in a film that addresses the end of life issues for an atheist from a practical and philosophical point of view that is both wry and poignant..

In my opinion, Allen does flub the very end seconds of the film somewhat, stealing away what could have been a very poignant thematic capper, but the venture is entertaining enough along the way that questioning the direction that the film goes in its final moments is worth overlooking for the overall recommendation.

(1977) is a hugely poignant tale of two old friends, now gangsters, who have reached the end of the line.

Even if the plotting of the relationships never quite deviates from the cliché, the actors still sell their characters and situations, whether it be for laughs or a moment of poignant reflection, and the end result is a movie that delivers just enough choice, novel situations and funny moments to get a solid recommendation.

It also explores the relationship between interviewer and interviewee in one of the most realistic (and kind of painful) ways, and ends with a poignant conclusion that fits within the story but also hangs heavily on our minds well beyond the theater.

This is Kazan's preferred cut, with the more downbeat ending, which gives full power to Blanche's wrenchingly poignant last line «I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.»

Mountains May Depart has one of the greatest, most poignant film endings of the new century, and Ash Is Purest White at times feels capable of something even more melancholy and moving.