Sentences with phrase «story about loneliness»

In this magical story about loneliness, ghosts, adventure, letting go, and true friendship, Liesl explains that she likes the word ineffable because it means «a feeling so big or vast that it could not be expressed in words.»

Along with Cath's story about loneliness, creativity, possible romance, and new adulthood are various chapters from the Simon Snow canon — mostly from «Carry On,» but also some of Cath's older stories, as well as her source material — and eventually, a piece of Cath's original writing.

Not exact matches

«The Drop» plays like a seriocomic shaggy - dog story with a hairy man and a baby pit bull at the center of it and ponderous lines about loneliness tacked on to lend it gravity.

Personal Shopper is more of a psychological drama about loneliness and grief rather than a frightening ghost story.

As she is trying to cope with her loss and searching for a sign of her brother's presence, it becomes clear that Personal Shopper is more of a psychological drama about loneliness and grief rather than a frightening ghost story.

Other titles in this section include: Naomi Kawase's sweet, light and leisurely AN; Tom Geens» COUPLE IN A HOLE, about a couple living in an underground forest dwelling to be left alone to deal with their mysterious grief; DEPARTURE, Andrew Steggall's delicate first feature about longing, loneliness and nostalgia for a sense of family that may have never existed; Jacques Audiard's Palme d'Or - winner about a makeshift family trying to cement their bonds, DHEEPAN; the World Premiere of Biyi Bandele's FIFTY, a riveting exploration of love and lust, power and rivalry and seduction and infidelity in Lagos; the European Premiere of Maya Newell's documentary GAYBY BABY, following the lives of four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystical.

The story explores a treasure trove of themes ranging from racism to religion to sisterhood to loneliness to love and loss of innocence, though Bees is mostly about the individual urge for self - fulfillment.

Rumu combines some superb character work and heady sci - fi themes into a heart - wrenching story about love, family, and loneliness.

Creative transitions between scenes and times add a stylish element to a story that is ultimately about human relationships, aging and loneliness.

Fair enough, but with the exception of «Inglourious Basterds,» «Jackie Brown» is Tarantino at his most mature — a multi-layered story about the vulnerability and loneliness of getting older that, ironically, only gets better with age.

There are so seldom stories written about true love striking «senior citizens», or in this case, two mature widowed individuals that are clearly battling both their own personal grief over their lost spouses as well as their own loneliness.

In her best - selling story collection, Birds of America («[it] will stand by itself as one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability» — James McManus, front page of The New York Times Book Review), Lorrie Moore wrote about the disconnect between men and women, about the precariousness of women on the edge, and about loneliness and loss.

The debut game, by indie PR specialist Lewis Denby, and Starbound lead writer Ashton Raze, is an story - driven tale about family, loneliness, desperation and the weather, and is set in a post-apocalyptic world.

«When I first saw her work — this might have been in the late 1970s, when I was not yet twenty — I was immediately consumed by the stories she worked so hard to tell: about loneliness, togetherness, and the drama of self - presentation, spurred by the drama of being,» Als writes in Alice Neel, Uptown.

«People don't talk about loneliness, but the influx of stories I received shows how universal and human it is.

«A few months ago, I started collecting stories from people about their real experiences with loneliness.