Sentences with phrase «searing portraits of»

Robert Bresson plumbs great reservoirs of feeling with Mouchette, one of the most searing portraits of human desperation ever put on film.

While recognizing that it's not any sort of great piece of acting by Robert Mitchum or a searing portrait of war, if one accepts The Enemy Below as an action - filled war movie, it's thoroughly entertaining stuff.

Like the extraordinary Elizabeth Strout novel - in - stories that it's based on, HBO's Olive Kitteridge accumulates with steady, earned drama into a searing portrait of quiet desperation.

A straightforward documentary that uses Yoni's own words - in the form of his moving, eloquent letters and poems - to create a searing portrait of his short but meaningful life.

Stunningly acted, never didactic and yet provoking endless important questions, Michael Inside is a searing portrait of a damaged system, and the boys we lose to it.

«Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» — There were no punches held back in Martin McDonagh's searing portrait of a woman so outraged that her anger practically seeps out of her pores.

But Love The Coopers is not banal and harmless, it is actually a searing portrait of holiday - driven despair, a ruthless and harrowing look at emotional burnout and the soul - crushing playacting demanded by the holiday season.

So did Robin Campillo for BPM, a searing portrait of the 1980s AIDS epidemic in France that actually is, hands down, the year's best foreign - language film.

The HBO series accumulates with steady, earned drama into a searing portrait of quiet desperation.

In this gorgeous collection of 12 essays, published to mark the centennial of the National Park Service, Terry Tempest Williams provides a poetic and searing portrait of the land and, by extension, of America itself.

Seamlessly moving back and forth in time between the Soviet Union and contemporary America, The Madonnas of Leningrad is a searing portrait of war and remembrance, of the power of love, memory, and art to offer beauty, grace, and hope in the face of overwhelming despair.

Through the mixing of these distinct voices, Laura Restrepo creates a searing portrait of a society battered by war and corruption as well as an intimate look at the daily lives of people struggling to stay sane in an unstable country.

When it was published in 1995, The Liars» Club offered a searing portrait of Karr's hardscrabble Texas childhood that raised the art of the memoir to a new level and brought about a revival of the genre.

«Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity» by Katherine Boo: This searing portrait of life in aMumbai slum reads like a novel, but it's all - too - true.

Told through the voices of those who knew him best — Paul McCartney, Richard Hamilton, Mick Jagger, Bridget Riley, Keith Richards, Kenneth Anger, Malcolm McLaren and Vyner herself — Groovy Bob is a brilliant biography and a searing portrait of the most exhilarating period in post-war British social history.

A searing portrait of poverty in the United States, the Fontenelle photographs provide a view of Harlem through the narrative of a specific family at a particular moment in time.

Not exact matches

Theron gives a searing, deglamorized performance as real - life serial killer Aileen Wuornos in an intense, disquieting portrait of a profoundly damaged soul that earned Theron a best actress Oscar.

Recently topping The New York Times» list of the century's best films, writer - director Paul Thomas Anderson's compulsively fascinating portrait of capitalism and religion at war for the soul of America strives for greatness at every turn — and Day - Lewis recognized that subtlety had no place in such a searing vision.

A searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, and placing us in her world during the days immediately following her husband's assassination.

Natalie Portman is being recognized for her role as Jacqueline Kennedy in the film «Jackie,» a searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Natalie Portman).

The lowdown: Documentary portrait of Julius Rosenwald, the Jewish - American head of Sears, Roebuck & Co., whose philanthropy gave a boost to African - American education and culture in the first half of the 20th century.

From the Studio: JACKIE is a searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Natalie Portman).

Two recent books offer a searing critique of adolescent life today, and both are worthy of attention for the portrait that they draw of the culture in which young people are immersed.

Competing crushes verging on love, looming decisions about college, and a terrorist attack factor into Ahmed's searing YA debut, a coming - of - age portrait of a contemporary Indian American Muslim teen, Maya Aziz.

A debut unlike any other, Shine Shine Shine by Lydia Netzer is a shocking, searing, breathless love story, a gripping portrait of modern family, and a stunning exploration of love, death and what it means to be human.

Billed as an intimate portrait of her family, the exhibition features many of them — her sisters, nieces, husband, mother and her daughter — often pictured on a bleak seafront, bundled up against the searing wind, with assorted dogs in tow.

Her searing self - portraits explore motherhood, ageing and bereavement, with the loss of her younger son in the First World War being a recurring theme for the rest of her life.

She is also engaged in a continuing series of candid, often searing self - portraits, and tender double portraits featuring herself and her daughter, Esme.

He uses the story of his mother to present a searing, soft, and complex portrait of post-industrial life in America.

Among her many projects, Alia coded interfaces for provisioning of cell phone services in Latin America, managed the shopping cart experience for an internet - based nutrition supplement company, and created customized user experiences for online photofinishing print stores for clients such as Yahoo!, Lucasfilm, Sears Portrait Studio, Delta, NASCAR and others.