Sentences with phrase «social drama at»

This may not come to pass given French director Stéphane Brizé's social drama AT WAR and Italian director Matteo Garrone's revenge thriller DOGMAN, each built around a prominent lead male performance.

A generation ago, kids would come home in the afternoon and have a break from the social drama at school.

Not exact matches

Taking the drama up another notch, Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya spoke at the same conference and immediately refuted Dimon's earlier remarks.

It would be easy to compare the film to the gangster - full works of Tarantino, but where Tarantino is skilful at getting inside the characters of his lowlifes and making you care, Drew's motley crew of social misfits remain just movie - video ciphers, rather than the anti-heroes of an insightful social drama.

This study looks at the ways in which online social networks provide new avenues for meeting «friends of friends» or for researching potential partners before meeting them in person, as well as some of the ways in which awkwardness or «drama» can develop in these highly public venues.

Me, Too (Unrated) Romance drama revolving around the relationship which blossoms between a young man with Down's Syndrome (Pablo Pineda) who falls in love at first sight with a social worker (Lola Duenas) with a checkered past.

The drama looks at the juxtaposition of several segments of life and society in 1980s New York: the rise of the luxury Trump - era universe, the downtown social and literary scene and the ball culture world.

The social change and political drama «Something In The Air» has been in the works for a while now and IFC — who experienced success with the aforementioned films — picked up the rights to his next effort at Cannes reports Cineurope, and filming is set to begin next month.

Naked: Criterion Collection Criterion's sole release this week is a Blu - ray upgrade to their existing catalog release of Mike Leigh's harsh social drama, which won acclaim at Cannes in ’93 for both Leigh and David Thewlis's central performance.

This year he is back in En Guerre, or At War, by the French director Stéphane Brizé — another social - realist drama about a factory shutdown and a workers» representative battling to save jobs.

With two exceptions — Topsy - Turvy and Vera Drake (which takes place in the 1950s)-- Leigh's films are set in contemporary urban or suburban Britain and might be described as social dramas, although even at their darkest they have a comic edge.

Michael Douglas presented The Social Network with the Golden Globe for Best Picture of the Year - Drama and producer Scott Rudin accepted the award, saying: «Thanks (to) everybody at Facebook, especially to Mark Zuckerberg for providing us a great metaphor about how we relate to each other, today, in our lives.»

and X-rated, gay - tinged drama «Midnight Cowboy» in 1968 - 9, a turnabout which Bart feels reflected significant social change at the time.

Winner of the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival, Hou Hsiao - hsien's («Flight of the Red Balloon») first film in eight years, The Assassin (Nie yin niang), may initially seem out of character for a director whose previous work has been in realistic social dramas set in a contemporary historical context.

As the fictional landscape designer Sabine de Barra, hired to create the Rockwork Grove amphitheater at Versailles, she stands in defiance of social and aesthetic convention even while the film itself never bursts its staid costume - drama seams.

Winner of Best Picture Awards at numerous international film festivals including Sydney, Berlin and Fajr in its native Iran, as well as the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, the film is an intimate drama about conflict within and between two families of vastly different social and economic standings.

And you have two movies about race relations, each starring Sidney Poitier, but coming at the issue from different angles — the social comedy - drama «Guess Who's Coming to Dinner» and the crime drama «In the Heat of the Night.»

The decision also could have come at the expense of Dee Rees, director of the acclaimed «Mudbound,» a nuanced social drama about prejudice in the Mississippi Delta, or Patty Jenkins, whose dazzling «Wonder Woman» upended the superhero genre in several important ways.

S # x Acts (Unrated) Coming - of - age drama, set in Jaffa, about an ostracized teen (Sivan Levy) who naively tries to elevate her social status by sleeping with the most popular guys at her new high school.

As he proved in 1999's underrated war drama / western / satire / heist / action film / comedy / political thriller / social conscience movie Three Kings, Russell is a master at defying genre.

At once hugely influential — there is no Paul Greengrass without Clarke — and still relatively obscure, Clarke is singular among the British social realists, owing to his adaptability to a variety of sub-genres (within this sampling you will find women's pictures, war movies, prison dramas, documentaries, and even an hour - long about a dystopian roller rink) and a blazing empathy for the downtrodden that seem to go hand - on - hand.

This raw psychological drama about an engineer unable to adjust to the world around him following his suicide attempt is at heart a scathing portrait of social alienation and moral compromise.

Short Term 12 (R for profanity and brief sexuality) Character - driven drama about a social worker (Brie Larson) who, with the help of her co-worker boyfriend (John Gallagher, Jr.), does her best to help at - risk teens assigned to the foster care facility she supervises.

Tom Cruise stars in «The Mummy»; immigrant doc «Abacus,» social satire «Beatriz at Dinner,» Sam Elliott is «The Hero,» and Rachel Weisz in period drama «My Cousin Rachel» head specialty releases.

To my knowledge this is the only time that a movie principally in the Tamil language took the gold with ensemble performances principally by non-professional actors, knocking out a searing story that is at once a love story, a social drama, a film noir and a genre film.

Teachers can also support social skill development through embracing and reflecting on drama rather than just asking students to stop it or «leave it at the door.»

So many people at dog parks think that if they leave the dogs alone, they'll get through whatever social drama is happening.

By reducing paintings to mere signs of themselves, McCollum turned the gallery and the museum setting into a kind of theater, highlighting the drama of presenting, displaying, buying and selling, exchanging, photographing, assessing, criticising, choosing, and writing about the works; the object - paintings at the center of the action were purposely rendered moot, in order to turn one's attention to the supplementary devices and social practices that, in the end, bestow the value on the work.

From a social media - based sci - fi drama about a new global health epidemic, to a look at the «unpredictable nature of physical attraction» using statistical analysis, Neïl Beloufa's exhibition, Counting on People, will keep you guessing.

Taking the drama up another notch, Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya spoke at the same conference and immediately refuted Dimon's earlier remarks.

-- Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) Adlerian Applied Behavioral Analysis Art Therapy Attachment Behavioral Marital Therapy Biofeedback Bowen Family Systems Therapy Brief Strategic Family Therapy Career Counseling CBT Culturally Sensitive / Multicultural Therapy Custody Evaluation DBT Discernment Therapy Drama Therapy EMDR Educational Testing Emotionally - Focused Therapy Existential Therapy Experiential Exposure Therapy Family Education Family Systems Feminist Therapy Forensic Evaluation Functional Family Therapy Gestalt Therapy Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Affirmative Therapy Gottman Method Couple Therapy Harm Reduction Health at Every Size ® Humanistic Hypnotherapy Imago Therapy Integrative Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy Internal Family Systems Jungian Mindfulness / Meditation Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy Motivational Interviewing Multi-Dimensional Family Therapy Multi-Systemic Family Therapy Narrative Neurofeedback Parent - Child Interaction Therapy Parent Education Play Therapy Positive Psychology Postmodern Therapies Psychoanalysis Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy (PACT) Psychodynamic Psychoeducation Psychological Testing / Evaluation Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) Reality Therapy Relational Therapy Sand Tray Therapy Sex Therapy Social Justice Informed Therapy Solution Focused Brief Therapy Somatic Therapy Strength - Based Structural Family Therapy Transgender / Gender Non-Conforming Affirmative Therapy Transpersonal Therapy Trauma - Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF - CBT)

Exposing drama in your personal lives on social media sites could affect how colleagues treat you at work.