Sentences with phrase «psychological unease»

Modern challenges can be physical setbacks or conflicts, emotional turmoil or deep psychological unease.

Seen together, the works in Not / Normal elicit the psychological unease that permeates and burdens their central subjects and their audiences.

While the Swiss artist is only 40, this is a very big deal: considered one of the most innovative artists working today, Fischer has carved out a sui - generis place in the art world with Surrealism - inflected works that merge bleeding - edge technology with deep psychological unease.

Writer / director Ruben Östlund's ski - resort comedy of social / psychological unease tries to operate at high altitude in more ways than one, aiming somewhere between early Mike Leigh and middle Michael Haneke.

The late, great American writer Patricia Highsmith (1921 - 1995)-- best known for books like Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley — was a virtuoso in the art of psychological unease.

Christian Petzold's last film, the masterful Phoenix, drew complex undercurrents of suspicion, psychological unease, and suspense (not to mention one of the greatest endings in contemporary film) out of the noirish story of a disfigured Holocaust survivor who returns to post-war Berlin and is roped into a scheme by the husband who mistakes her for a stranger.

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It works as a dark psychological thriller because it is so terrifyingly real and shows how dark things can become when detached from reality that it leaves us with a sense of unease.

«Hawkins is at the forefront of a group of female authors — think Gillian Flynn and Megan Abbott — who have reinvigorated the literary suspense novel by tapping a rich vein of psychological menace and social unease... there's a certain solace to a dark escape, in the promise of submerged truths coming to light.»

Nauman regards the work of art as an action that can inspire reactions in the viewer that are both physical (unease, disorientation) and psychological (laughter, anxiety).