Sentences with phrase «ravishing movie»

Farewell My Concubine may have been better received, but the Chinese director's follow - up is the more ravishing movie; set largely in 1920s Shanghai, it doesn't evoke a past era so much as a universe of indulgences, temptations, and sumptuous textures lost to time.

The late filmmaker Derek Jarman became an underground hero for such visually ravishing movies as his 1986 Caravaggio, and throughout his life he was also a committed painter himself, scratching out large, raw, confessional canvases that brimmed with emotion.

Not exact matches

While Sweet Country snakes along to an inevitable outcome, Thornton retains a sharp control over the movie's ravishing visuals, assembling them with a rhythmic quality that transcends any specific time and place.

Far from the nonsensical, failed - blockbuster of its maudit reputation, the movie is a ravishing renewal of the genre hollowed out by Star Wars

With apologies to Minority Report, the year's most visually breathtaking action movie was China's Hero, a ravishing post-Crouching Tiger wuxia epic with an oddly pro-empire message and a stunning cast of Hong Kong legends, including Jet Li, who took a break from making dumb American B - movies for long enough to anchor something great.

Though elements of the Zhang style are readily evident — chiefly the ravishing cinematography (by frequent collaborator Zhao Xiaoding) and a color palette so rich you could eat it for dessert — the movie, entitled A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop, is a less harmonious hybrid, one that shoehorns elements of broad farce and slapstick into the Coens» meticulous tale of lust, deception, and murder.

As is customary, the movie looks ravishing, but the plot is underfed.

P.T. Anderson's movies are never coherent enough to appeal to the mainstream, but this one is so ravishing and meticulous and exquisite that you have no difficulty ignoring its inherent lack of logic.

Sally Hawkins stars as a cleaner smitten with a scaly underwater beast in this cold war - era creature feature that melds ravishing romance with B - movie thrills

Neither, for that matter, is David Cronenberg's highly transgressive and subjective film adaptation of Naked Lunch, which may well be the most troubling and ravishing head movie since Eraserhead.

In his 2009 film I Am Love, Guadagnino presented Tilda Swinton — as a married woman having a dangerous affair — at her most ravishing, and then spent the movie digging into her vulnerable psyche.