Sentences with phrase «romance stories live»

While other genres might succeed based on interesting plot twists, romance stories live and die by relatable and likable characters.

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«Call Me By Your Name» tells the story of Elio and Oliver's life - changing summer romance while Oliver is helping Elio's father (a professor) with a history project.
Such stories are the romance of human life.
From rising filmmaker Jeff Nichols, Loving tells the moving real - life story of Mildred and Richard Loving, the interracial couple who's romance led to the landmark Supreme Court decision which made it illegal to prevent marriages on the basis on race.
Her Modern Love essay in the New York Times was not only one of the most - read in the decade the column has been running, but it also lead to her publishing a just - released book, Love, Again: The Wisdom of Unexpected Romance, in which she shares stories of other couples that found love late in life, too.
They have found their true online mate and are pleasureful to share their lives and moments with them, as they are single they triumph for searching love - as they have made their romance stories very successful posted their reviews about their love on internet.
It's a story that could appear in a romance novel or a romantic comedy, but it was happening in real life for us.
Yes, there's something special about the romance of meeting someone in public and hitting it off right away, but that rarely happens — and for the most important mission in most of our lives, it makes no sense to crush your ability to meet great people to try a first date with because it's not as good a story to have met them online.
Plus, to call it a success story, your online romance should also work in real life too.
Being a dating site that only understands what it is like to be single, but also specializes in celebrating the most exciting chapter of biker's life, BikerNext.net is considered as one of the leading dating site for motorcycle enthusiasts, where over 30,000 «biker chic» get together hoping to find either friendship other some romance from which a life - time love story can be developed.
PK Live Erotic romance novels are stories written about the development of a romantic relationship through sexual interaction.
It tells the story of several romances in high school before the most romantic night of their lives, Prom night.
With the story's vivid and passionate women and the power of emotional healing (not to mention the intense eroticism of his hothouse romance), gives Sex and Lucia a dynamic, vigorous life.
Stahl narrates his life story to her from a cheap motel room, and the film alternates between their growing romance and flashbacks from his dismal past.
At the film festival: Bruce LaBruce's subversive masterpiece, Gerontophilia, a lovely rom - com in which everybody fucks one another across all age and gender borders — desire shall bind us together; Juno Mak's Rigor Mortis, a touching albeit grim look at loss and damnation in the form of a Chinese hopping - vampire movie, with many a nod to the subgenre's clichés and conventions; Jealousy, Philippe Garrel's latest tale of love ground down by the mill of daily life, raw and naked even by his ascetic standards; Hayao Miyazaki's troublesome The Wind Rises, which frames the story of a fighter - plane designer as a grand romance of struggle and failure, with animation's supreme living master contemplating the price mankind can sometimes pay in the name of one dreamer's self - fulfillment, and the willful blindness and egocentricity it takes to realize one's vision; and finally to Yorgos Lanthimos's Necktie and Athina Rachel Tsangari's 24 Frames Per Century, their contributions to the Venice 70: Future Reloaded omnibus, not to mention the untitled pieces by Jean - Marie Straub, Monte Hellman, Amit Dutta, and Haile Gerima.
Official Synopsis: Ben Stiller directs and stars in James Thurber's classic story of a day - dreamer who escapes his anonymous life by disappearing into a world of fantasies filled with heroism, romance and action.
Although Adaline's story isn't fully fleshed out across the decades of her life, if you are a history buff, a fan of great cinematography and production design, or just looking for a good «date - nite» fantasy romance to experience on your home theater, definitely give Age of Adaline a look.
But the story it tells — a star - crossed romance between an actress and a jazz musician in Los Angeles — never really lives up to the numbers surrounding it.
Based on a true story, the life of a petty criminal of the Casanova variety (romance the ladies and steal their jewels) who becomes the head of the police in Napoleonic France, A Scandal in Paris is as effervescent a bit of classical Hollywood storytelling as ever there was.
Also among the 9 Oscar nominees for best picture Thursday: the old - age love story «Amour»; the Iran hostage thriller «Argo»; the independent hit «Beasts of the Southern Wild»; the slave - revenge narrative «Django Unchained»; the musical «Les Miserables»; the shipwreck story «Life of Pi»; the lost - souls romance «Silver Linings Playbook»; and the Osama bin Laden manhunt chronicle «Zero Dark Thirty.»
Ostensibly the story of five sisters who kill themselves, and even more, of the boys who try to befriend the girls and are mystified by their act for the rest of their lives, the film instead chooses to focus on just one of the girls (played by Kirsten Dunst) and the bulk of the film's middle is taken up with the story of her romance with heartthrob Josh Hartnett.
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Based on the unbelievable story of Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon's real - life romance, this is the rare rom - com that's as messy as real life.
On the evening in October 2016 when the movie crew shot the innocent frolic between Lady Bird and Danny in the McKinley Park rose garden, the one where the lovebirds waltz through the rose bushes and name a star in the sky to commemorate their new romance, Gerwig's friends and family gathered to watch, including her brother and sister - in - law, who live in Land Park, Mickiewicz's sister and nieces, and Trafton, who said of the experience, «We were in the present, seeing a story inspired by the past, and witnessing something incredible about Greta's future.
David O. Russell's chaotic and jumpy style perfectly suits this story of a man suffering from bipolar disorder trying to correct his life amidst an unusual romance, a temperamental football - obsessed father, and any other type of everyday drama that can stand in the way of a positive and happy life.
Essentially a love story about a boy and his car, Eric Bana documents his life - long romance with his 1970s muscle car in this warm, enjoyable film.
1 - You're Next (for more originality than the others & acceptable story) 2 - Maniac (for incredible Atmosphere and for really being schizophrenic horror) 3 - Conjuring (for Mastery Atmosphere & Shocking Moments) 4 - Evil Dead (GOOD GORE) 5 - We Are What We Are (Special Theme, Excellent Directing) 6 - V / H / S 2 (Surprising, Intense & Bloody moments) 7 - Insidious 2 (Just OK for being high class horror) I like this either: Sleep Tight / Hatchet III / No One Lives / Mama / Carrie / I spit on your grave 2 (i don't know what call warm bodies «horror or romance» but i like it anyway)
It's the story of three generations of women spending a summer of discontent as they deal with fumbling romances, loneliness, learning how to drive and the general ennui of living in a dry, dusty Arizona border town.
Yes, it's a love story but it's in the details of their lives that make this something more than a silly romance film to take your significant other to.
This could feel like an airport romance novel about a girl whose life is transformed by love, but Ronan complicates Eilis's otherwise simple story arc as much as she can.
Based on a true story, Maudie charts the unlikely romance between Maud Lewis, a folk artist who blossoms in later life, and the curmudgeonly recluse, Everett.
The film is about the life of Wing Chun master Ip Man, but the story actually could not leave Wong Kar - wai's trademark «romance» out of the equation by depicting Tony Leung and Zhang Ziyi's ambiguous relationship in particular detail.
Dillon is Diaz's real - life sweetheart, but nevertheless turns in a one - note performance in what amounts to just one more story about a sleazebag male romancing a perky female who's too stupid to realize she's being had.
This not - quite - linear movie has lighter moments alongside the drama, and the story deals with a writer trying to decide if he's made the right choices in his life, especially when it comes to romance.
At its heart, the story might be called an amalgam of style more so than something one could make a compelling tale out of, but the richness of the characterizations and environs bring the narrative to life, with a good sense of wit, romance, and satire.
Set during the turn of the 20th century, the film stars Mia Wasikowska as young American heiress Edith Cushing, an aspiring author who has no interest in romance, whether in real life or her stories, despite the fact that childhood friend - turned - physician Alan McMichael (Charlie Hunnam) clearly fancies her.
Opening with a flawlessly timed scene in which Steven is told he was adopted, the film dives right in to a real life story of near death experiences, jailhouse romance, fraud and fakery that defies belief.
WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY is the story of the secret life of Emily Dickinson (Molly Shannon) and explores the vivacious, irreverent side of her that was covered up for many years and recently revealed — most notably Emily's lifelong romance with another woman, Susan Dickinson, the wife of Emily's brother.
The movie is based on a true story about a late - in - life romance between film noir star Gloria Grahame and a 28 - year - old English actor.
It isn't a great love story, but it's still a worthy entry into the teen romance genre because of its broader message on love and life.
I've been a collector of Gothic romance novels and stories all my life, and I wanted to make one before I croaked.
It is also a courageous story of romance filled with excitement, novelty and moments of shock, particularly for Effua, whose life has been inexorably influenced by Nkem's.
Honey Blood is a short - lived vampire romance series, but this volume, Tale Zero is filled with short stories that may (or may not) help the abrupt ending of the original two volumes.
She takes a job counseling deceased pets, forges an unexpected romance with a young man struggling with heartbreaks, and finds simple joy in the awareness that «a life is a good story... even a crazy, backward life like hers.»
After You (Pamela Dorman) continues the story of Lou Clarke, a working - class girl whose unlikely romance with wealthy, wheelchair - bound Will Traynor changed her life forever.
Saddle up and head west with four separate inspirational journeys... to a better life out west This is a collection of 4 mail order bride novellas - Frontier Sister - New Home for a Wyoming Bride - Golden Bride - The Prize Out West These are clean romance stories.
In Faith Parson's heartwarming clean romance stories, courageous men and their mail - order brides join together to make a new life on the Western frontier.
Sure, romances are basically fantasy, but when combined with real life situations, the result is usually a compelling story.
She is a contributor to the anthologies When I Was a Loser: True Stories of (Barely) Surviving High School, The Dictionary of Failed Relationships, Where Love is Found: 24 Tales of Connection, Sex and Sensibility: 28 True Romances from the Lives of Single Women and A Galaxy Not So Far Away: Writers and Artists on Twenty - Five Years of Star Wars.
The February edition of BookPage is packed with recommendations for love stories — be they real - life insights on modern love or romance novels.
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