Sentences with phrase «social satire set»

Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead (Knopf) Shipstead's debut novel is a social satire set on a private New England island, as a father prepares to give away his (already pregnant) daughter, and other wedding guests and family members face lust, old rivalries and obligations that come with privilege.

Director McMurray may have taken a more studious approach than did Spike Lee in «School Daze,» a social satire set on an African American campus, but he and co-writer Christine Berg have internalized Z's journey at the expense of deeper character development and creating any mounting tension.

A terrific work of political and social satire set in a Nebraska high school that has the intelligence of (the less coherent) «Rushmore,» while painting a much darker picture of politics and human relationships.

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That set - up never blossoms into the pungent satire it wants to be, however, because the black hats and white hats have been so obviously delineated that any social commentary becomes utterly blunted.

In Sergei Loznitsa's weighty social comment «A Gentle Creature,» a woman in the Russian countryside quietly sets out to deliver a care package to her (presumably wrongfully) imprisoned husband and encounters such heavy obstacles that would play as satire if they weren't so dramatic.

Olive releases two films from late in Preminger's career, one an overheated melodrama set in 1946 Georgia where the antebellum past is still alive, if not at all well, the other (Such Good Friends) a modern social satire about friendship and betrayal in the wake of the sexual revolution.

However you consume them, the behind - the - scenes stories, from John Barry's intentions (he said he thought of it as a love story) to Martin Amis's motivation for taking the script - writing job (apparently he was a sci - fi buff before becoming a novelist famous for literary social satire) to Kirk Douglas's behaviour on set (Amis later said that Douglas «wanted to be naked,» and very much wanted Fawcett to be naked with him), are delicious.

The film attempts to juxtapose extremely heightened, broad farce with social satire in a period setting along with dark subject matters such as cannibalism and incest.

Halt And Catch Fire / The Martian's Mackenzie Davis stars in San Junipero, a philosophically provocative California - set episode, Joe Wright directs Alice Eve and Bryce Dallas Howard in Nosedive, «a playful satire about social media insecurity», and 10 Cloverfield Lane's Dan Trachtenberg helms Playtest, a video game «horror romp» starring Wyatt Russell.

Over the course of the three acts, the film's context evolves from social satire (set in a public space) to emotional intimacy (confined to the private space of a single room and a single bed) to domestic drama (set in the awkward private - public space of a family apartment).

The setting of Ben Wheatley's deranged satire is a skyscraping symbol: social hierarchy in architectural form, like the train from Snowpiercer flipped vertically.

One can easily imagine where, if he were writing today, William Makepeace Thackeray might have chosen to set his social satire.

From the lurid antics of the Big Little Lies women to the savage social satire of Get Out; from the emo awakening of Lady Bird to the sea creature - romancing fantasy of The Shape of Water, it's set to be an interesting ceremony.

While they of course claim to love all the babies in these, Kneedler and Lyanga sounded particularly high on the likes of the Zambia - set social satire «I Am Not a Witch,» the multi-disciplinary South American love story «Pendular,» animated Chinese noir -LRB-!)

An Evening of Long Goodbyes by Paul Murray Murray is best known for his excellent second novel, Skippy Dies, but his charming, Wodehous - ian debut, set in a crumbling Irish mansion, is a social satire for the ages.