Sentences with phrase «sections of the film essentially»

Each of the three sections of the film essentially covers a variation of the same themes — dealing with prejudice, trying to find and maintain one's identity, struggling with love — but Szabó finds fresh and engaging ways to approach it each time.

Not exact matches

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

The second section of the film feels very much like a talky Richard Linklater picture (think «Waking Life,» or moments of «Slacker «-RRB- and essentially boils down to a big table of friends eating and conversing about life — intellectual, philosophical and social ideas revolving around technology, sex, romance, memory, perception and more.

Despite getting expelled from art school and essentially blacklisted by the Communist party in Bucharest, the Romanian artist Geta Brătescu, who is representing her country's pavilion in Venice as well as taking part in the Athens section of Documenta, has churned out a steady stream of film, photography, drawings, and even books for decades.