Not exact matches
As Lelio's earlier
films demonstrated, the director's style is restrained but
potent, which helps the impact
of the actors» performances as well as the picture's fairly graphic love
scene.
Instead pervasive in The American is a kind
of unnerving quiet that effectively underscores the
film's most
potent scenes.
Landesman, in what is only his second
film after the milquetoast JFK assassination ensemble piece Parkland, has a journalistic approach to his writing that charges adrenaline into
potent scenes of Omalu fighting against this corrupt system, but he lets his rightful anger get in the way
of presenting the story in an objective fashion.
Her anxious face hovers uneasily on the screen throughout most
of the
film, finally erupting into a torrential fury, a
potent scene that seems hampered by the continuous unspooling
of the plot.
This
scene doesn't exactly scream «maternal instinct» but that's exactly what it portrays and one
of the reasons why the
film remains a
potent example
of feminist cinema.
Objects play a central role in the
film, almost as characters in their own right; the mise en
scene becoming as
potent as the action
of the protagonists or any suggested narrative.