Sentences with phrase «school romance films»

From here on out, this film isn't much different than other coming - of - age or high school romance films you've seen before.

Not exact matches

Agora proves that it is entire possible to have an old - school blockbuster (and I am talking Cecil B. DeMille and Alan Mann spectacle films with casts of thousands wearing togas and swords) coupled with science, mathematics and commentary on modern times nudge shoulders with romance, upheaval and politics of antiquity.

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Holmes (Nicholas Rowe) and rotund John Watson (Alan Cox) meet, the film suggests, at an exclusive boarding school, where Holmes romances lovely Elizabeth (Sophie Ward) while shepherded by doting professor Rathe (Anthony Higgins).

Agnes Jaoui infuses the film with a distinctive visual style, peppering the film with impressionistic paintings which fade into the drab surroundings of the world of the film — the entrance to the driving school, a concrete slab of a building — neatly linking into the film's idea that romance fades into humdrum mediocrity.

The antsy teen sits alongside several Bible Study peers — including high - schoolers Cameron (Chloë Grace Moretz) and Coley (Quinn Shephard), whose budding, secret romance the film keeps flashing back to — as a pastor bellows about the evils lurking within all children their age.

Polsoldt never drapes his high school romance in nostalgia — a common mistake in films such as these — but looks at the situation with the clear view his protagonist lacks.

While Lady Bird's life at school, friendships, and romances are all wildly compelling, the beating heart of the film is her relationship with her mother (played by the astounding Laurie Metcalf), perhaps one of the most genuine on - screen mother - daughter relationships in years.

Based on the young adult novel by Becky Albertalli and directed by superstar TV showrunner Greg Berlanti, the film promises to flip the script on the high - school romance with that ever - elusive blend of wit and heart.

But love isn't all easy in the Sundance indie film First Girl I Loved, where the placement of a high school same - sex romance in the swivelling unpredictability of adolescence makes this coming - of - age tale an emotional spin that attempts to increase its stakes at every turn.

A film so definitive in the teen - flick canon that it's even inspired a recent feature - length documentary («Beyond Clueless»), this whip - smart, high - school - set adaptation of Jane Austen's «Emma» remains the gold standard for snarky teen romance.

But it's the soaring central love story that makes the film sing: this is an old - school romance, all lingering glances and bold declarations, petticoats, pouting and heaving machismo.

It's a smart, well - made little film set in about an interracial romance at a boarding school.

Greg Berlanti's film, adapted from the best - selling young - adult novel «Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda,» stars Nick Robinson as a gay 17 - year - old who has yet to come out when another closeted boy from his high school begins an anonymous e-mail romance.

But film festivals, like other old - school distribution methods, shouldn't be forgotten in our modern - day romance with the internet.