Sentences with phrase «staginess of»
Using both Super-8 and high - definition video, Ms. Friedman, like Mr. Katz, makes us aware of the staginess of all relationships (not just the Hollywood variety).
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Though dysfunctional family dramas are not everyone's cup of tea, and the Westons are a more volatile clan than most who've graced the silver screen, August: Osage County emerges as a very thoughtful, insightful, and well - acted drama that manages to break from the staginess of the play to be quite a good dramatic film on its own.
The staginess of the film also comes through in the acting.
An effort to capture how things really are, The Spectacular Now is an earnest coming - of - age film that avoids the glib reflexes symptomatic of the genre, and the sanctimony and staginess of overwrought addiction melodramas.
Letts» work contains frequent verbal bouts, and showdowns between various characters, but the staginess of the movie — particular in scenes that get stuck in one room for minutes upon minutes on end with different people shouting at each other — can be tiring, and certainly visually lifeless.
Not exact matches
If you're prepared to accept an inherent staginess that gradually fades as the film progresses, you can become caught up in a drama of extraordinary power and insight.
Rope's staginess and lack of that usual edge - of - the - seat suspense leaves it kind of dangling in the air a bit...
Director Ryan Murphy's expansion of the original play bears the burden of its staginess, despite a hyperactive camera that sometimes makes The Normal Heart feel like an episode of «American Horror Story» (this guy can make a scene showing a few men shaking hands feel like a goddamned Tilt - a-Whirl ride, and he seriously overvalues ostentatious overhead shots).
The staginess extends to the performances, which are that brand of Shakespeare that are more recitation than actual performance.
The staginess gets in the way of the performances, too.
Despite its heightened sense of staginess to suggest the blurred line between life and drama, Ms. Barnard's «The Arbor» ultimately proves devastating when it establishes parallels between the lives of Dunbar and her biracial eldest child, Lorraine, with actress Manjinder Virk earnestly standing in.
Although his character sings, curses and generally behaves badly, Gere delivers all of this with a staginess that does not resemble recognizable human behavior.