Sentences with phrase «retelling of the true story»

What makes the film Crown Heights, which is the latest cinematic retelling of the true story of the wrongful incarceration of a Black man in the United States; difficult to watch... is that it wasn't difficult to watch at all.

Set in 18th Century Denmark, A Royal Affair is a gorgeous, intricate retelling of a true story, says Lilit Marcus in her review.

Vivid oil paintings illustrate the fictional retelling of the true story.

Not exact matches

Perhaps Jarecki could have completely discarded the facts of the Durst story and made a stronger film about family drama and possible insanity but the fact is that his subject matter ended his true story in such an unusual way that it doesn't necessarily support a dramatic retelling.

Ultimately, The Miracle Season mistakes an inspiring true story for one that needs or deserves to be told cinematically; it isn't awful, but it's not a film, it's a tribute, and unfortunately, one to the memory of a young woman who would be better honored by people actually «living like Line» than watching a formulaic, fictionalized retelling of her community learning what that means.

Allegedly inspired by the true story of a Mexican man named Gojo Cardinas who killed dozens of women under the apparent influence of his mother before being incarcerated and rehabilitated, Santa Sangre is in many ways a novel retelling of Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), with that film's psychosexual subtext here put on full display with overt symbolism (e.g. Concha, the castrating mother's name, is slang for «vagina») and mixed with elements of The Hands of Orlac (Robert Wiene, 1924), The Invisible Man and George Romero's zombie films.

Provided the story is handled the right way, a formulaic retelling of a tried - and - true tale can at least be enjoyable.

Ruffalo also had a charming, affable leading - man turn in «Begin Again» this year, as a weary record label exec whose passion for music is reignited by a young singer - songwriter, but his turn as real - life Olympic wrestler Dave Schultz in Bennett Miller's retelling of a bizarre true story is a prime example of an actor at the peak of his powers.

I'm most curious about Nate Parker's Nat Turner biopic, The Birth of a Nation; Clea DuVall's The Intervention; documentarian Asif Kapadia's fiction film, Ali & Nino, set in Azerbaijan at the outbreak of World War I; John Carney's Dublin teen musical, Sing Street; Aaron Brookner's Uncle Howard, a tribute to his uncle, the filmmaker Howard Brookner; Robert Cannan and Ross Adam's The Lovers and the Despot, an investigation of the kidnapping of a South Korean director and his actress ex-wife by movie - mad Kim Jong - il, the crazy but true story that is hilariously retold in David Cronenberg's debut novel, Consumption; and Elite Zexer's Sand Storm, an Israeli - financed film, in Arabic, about two Bedouin women.

I don't think I ever thought of it in quite that way, but it does help to explain the enduring power of fairy tales and how every iteration and retelling is a «true story» even when transplanted into new settings.

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