Sentences with phrase «poignant films»

Probably one of the most poignant films out at the moment.

Hogancamp's alliance with director Jeff Malmberg in this artful and poignant film marks a victory in the war against the self.

Directed by Catherine Harwicke and written by Morwenna Banks, Miss You Already is an emotionally poignant film about two best friends «Jess» (Drew Barrymore) and «Milly» (Toni Collette) who have stayed close through thick and thin.

This poignant film about the painful dilemma that confronts an elderly Parisian couple, as one of them gradually succumbs to illness, is brilliantly directed and beautifully portrayed by two titan actors of the Nouvelle Vague.

Whatever the case, this is both a witty and a very poignant film about a subject — the stresses and joys of modern motherhood — that Hollywood has rarely gone so near before.

«While it's a consistently entertaining and often poignant film which addresses a wide range of issues under the stealth cover of humour, I, Tonya also gives Robbie the chance — her first, really — to show her full range as an actress.

In a funny yet poignant film, Michael Fassbender's turn as cult character Frank Sidebottom proves liberating rather than limiting, writes Mark Kermode

Here, we explore Gandolfini's most poignant film appearances, ranked by their dissimilarity to Tony Soprano, that remind us how mesmerizing he is every time he's on screen.

Directed by Ken Loach Written by Paul Laverty (screenplay) Starring: Dave Johns, Hayley Squires, Sharon Percy This incredibly poignant film, while commenting on the UK welfare system specifically, surely will touch most Western... Continue reading →

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.

Thomas's mother is now the subject of a deeply poignant film, «Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman,» that chronicles her fierce battle with kidney disease in the final years of her life, both celebrating her humanity and laying bare her struggles.

Not exact matches

In honor of the comedic genius and award - winning actor's birthday, we look back at 10 of his most poignant statements in life and film.

In a poignant moment in the film, Liddell tells his sister that he has decided to return to China to serve as a missionary.

Oh, this is totally random, but have you ever seen the film «Lilies», which won four Genie Awards in 1996, about the two young men of Roberval, Quebec who fall in love in 1912 — and the poignant tale of how their love is undone by jealousy?

Vivid film footage and poignant interviews thrust upon us tragedies from around the globe.

But if you look, for example, at my most recent film, The War, you will see that issues of faith and spirituality abound in it, in very poignant moments and in humorous ones.

For that reason, many adults go to the movies to enjoy the latest animated film without children, not because they want to delight in «kid's stuff,» but because the genre offers poignant messages in a beautiful format that only these types of movies can really deliver.

Your words about film and traveling are so, so lovely and poignant, Izy!

Inspired by the film Return to Zero — the first Hollywood film to tackle the taboo subject of stillbirth — this is a poignant, inspiring anthology that offers much - needed insight into the unique, shattering, and life - changing experience of losing a child.

Despite its medically and romantically improbable beginning, the film becomes surprisingly poignant as the relationship and the epidemic progress.

Informed by Mr. Russell's real - life experience, his 2012 film Silver Linings Playbook captures both the challenges and joys that accompany mental illness with poignant authenticity and humor.

Model and «Houghton Girl» Chloe Norgaard is one of nine women who star in a poignant short film about body positivity ups and downs.

Although each film is centred around Nick, moments featuring Susie are some of the most poignant.

Mexican TV and film star Bichir gives a poignant performance, but he's distinctly more European than the cholos and Chicano laborers on the sketchy edges of the hero's plight.

His response to the Bishop's kindness early in the film has exactly the poignant impact that it's supposed to.

How increased adversity leads the inmates to regain their true selves and purpose makes for the film's unexpectedly inspiring and poignant core.

The film most superbly succeeds in its a production design and atmosphere whilst being a social commentary that is pretty poignant.

In one of the film's most poignant scenes, the pregnant Theresa, who still has a soft spot for Tommy, replays home videos of a raucous Christmas gathering at which Tommy and Rob engaged in some friendly roughhousing that in retrospect seems ominous.

But the film's best scenes — including a haunting moment on the beach and a weirdly poignant encounter with a disfigured potential victim — also suggest a dawning moral awareness in the femme fatale.

And so the film becomes his journey, from slightly poignant guy to dancing wonder.

The parallels between the Nixon and Trump administrations will make you flinch in Spielberg's poignant new film

Unfinished Song is full of predictably poignant moments; you'd be lucky to survive the film dry - eyed.

Stories We Tell explores the elusive nature of truth and memory, but at its core is a deeply personal film about how our narratives shape and define us as individuals and families, all interconnecting to paint a profound, funny and poignant picture of the larger human story.

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?»

It's a stirring sequence that's heightened by Holbrook's engaging, downright poignant performance, with the film's compulsively watchable atmosphere perpetuated by the initial scenes set within the past - as Lawrence does a nice job of infusing such moments with a melodramatic and suitably old - fashioned feel that proves impossible to resist.

The film is loaded with brotherly affection and with warm, funny and poignant evocations of a gentler time.

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.

In the former film, she appeared as the quiet, capable love interest of Tony Shalhoub's struggling Italian chef, while the latter featured the actress in the minor but poignant role of a painfully - awkward schoolteacher who is seduced by John Travolta's libidinous Presidential candidate.

Fortunately, the film recovers during its poignant final moments and brings its various narrative and thematic threads to a satisfying conclusion.

The film is evocative, intelligent, poignant, and delivers a good deal of clarity both in the development of «On the Origins of Species» and on the complexities of Charles Darwin the man, who shook the world with scientific theory, yet appeared more comforted by his faith in family.

Cynthia Roberts's film is poignant and courageous, but its curious status — a film of a play that seems to want to be a documentary — muffles its impact.

The climax (as mentioned previously) and a poignant, but unsentimental finale help redeem matters after the long slog of the mid-section and I don't want to bash the film too much.

That combination is what makes the film so poignant.

The most embarrassing moment in the film comes when Jackman performs «Bring Him Home,» arguably the show's most poignant song.

Former indie wunderkind turned big budget comedy king, David Gordon Green returns to his roots with his sweetly eccentric, surprisingly poignant new film, Prince Avalanche.

Conversely, the seeds of Carangi's singular impact on an industry that had become a glorified assembly line are sown in haste: The film puts forth a few poignant images — Gia's colleagues mistaking her for a loiterer, Gia the only brunette in a pool of blondes (a tableau that really shows the novelty of her ethnicity)-- but mostly treats Gia not as a model with a drug habit, but as a junkie who models, one of Paul Schrader's born addicts.

With Tully, Reitman returns to the intersection of sarcasm and sincerity with a film that is heartfelt, pointed, poignant and often contagiously hysterical.

With the 3D walk itself being worth price of admission, more so in vertigo - inducing IMAX, and poignant final moments that especially resonated with the New York Film Fest crowd, Zemeckis has crafted a spectacle to be sure even if the rest of the film will likely not stand the same test of time that the 2008 documentary has.

Donald Sutherland as Mr. Bennet delivers a fine performance, and is given the film's best line and most poignant moment seconds before the credits roll.

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