Sentences with phrase «portrait of the human condition»

The Bad Girls of Film Noir are hanging out in a separate entry (visit them over here) but there are plenty of other releases this week, not the least of which is the Coen Bros.'s A Serious Man (Universal), a serious (and seriously funny) meditation on little themes like the meaning of life and why are we here and how can we know God's purpose, and is as funny, heartbreaking, questioning, trying, exasperating and sincerely inquisitive a portrait of the human condition as you'll find on screen.

What her documentary shows is a beautiful portrait of the human condition, of people continually fighting against the current to make the future a better place.

There are few more affecting portraits of the human condition than Kumiko, swaddled in her technicolor hotel blanket turned coat, trudging through the cold, harsh climes of an uncaring world.

These artists make tragic, comic, and silent portraits of the human condition.

The artists make tragic, comic, and silent portraits of the human condition.

While African American experience, with its social, political, and cultural implications, remains the core of Marshall's stunning body of work, the portrait of human condition on global scale is what the painter seeks to address.

Not exact matches

Effortlessly vaulting over expectations despite months of hype, Under the Skin is a meditation on the human condition, a psychedelic, surreal sci - fi, a hidden - camera portrait of Glasgow, and showcase for a stunning performance by Scarlett Johansson.

A constantly surprising, endlessly fascinating family portrait in which the paradoxes of the human condition are picked apart and laid bare over the course of 109 devastatingly brilliant minutes.

Sprick's portraits shy away from conventional beauty in favor of an exploration of the human condition revealed through non-traditional subjects from diverse walks of life.