Sentences with phrase «quirky little film»

A quirky little film with an offbeat trajectory that rattles through the bones of story with eyes open to the texture of experience and the dimensions of character.

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And while the storyline, characters and sets could only come from the quirky imaginations of the Coen brothers, the film remains critical and engaged with the world we live in — a world where the little guy struggles to change their own tough situation, let alone the world at large, and the big ones who don't give a damn.

Chadha, whose last film The Viceroy's House tackled the tragic causes and epic scale of the partition of India, said she hopes Blinded by the Light will, by contrast, mix a little of the quirky British humour of some of her earlier films, such as Bhaji on the Beach (1993) and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008) with the lively energy of 1980s high - school movies written by John Hughes such as Pretty in Pink and The Breakfast Club.

While popular in New Zealand, these were mainly cult films for international audiences who had to purposefully seek out these quirky and raunchy examples of genre by the then - little known Kiwi auteur.

The film starts off a little weird, with the main character a slightly quirky teenage boy depicting his love of film - making.

Searchlight will seek to emulate the Sundance - launched success it had in the past with the likes of «Napoleon Dynamite» and «Little Miss Sunshine» — other movies with quirky and appealing lead characters — but will need to sell a film that at heart is far more of a quiet drama than it might appear.

Quirky little suspense film that earns all of its payoff.

Bolstered by a terrific performance by Pierce Brosnan (After the Sunset, Laws of Attraction), perhaps his best in a feature film to date, this is a wholly likeable dark comedy full of quirky but well - rounded characters and little touches in the character development that sets it apart from other films of a similar nature.

Little Miss Sunshine feels like a «safe» version of quirky film, whereby the characters» wacky actions are mere shadows of what could have been.

As a result, they've injected as many quirky little moments as they can, and the result is the uneven experience of a film that doesn't know which direction to adhere to.

In that way, the film often brings to mind Brooklyn author Jonathan Safran Foer's unbearably contrived 9/11 novel Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, in which a precocious little boy unlocks a mystery about his father while taking a quirky tour of Manhattan and its varied people.

Hancock, released 10 years ago, is the quirkiest film in this lineage; it stars Will Smith and cost $ 150 million to make, and yet it inspires very little defense or consideration as a display of the potential for black superheroes on the big screen.