Sentences with phrase «straightforward take on film»

Jared Moshe, the writer - director of the throwback Western programmer Dead Man's Burden, returns with another straightforward take on film's most mythologized genre.

Not exact matches

This alarming horror film, a brilliant debut for Australian director Jennifer Kent, is as hard to shake as its title character whether you take it as a straightforward monster film, a mental illness or grief allegory, or get hung up on its minefield of taboos (mothers who don't much like their children / over-medication of children / weapons in schools).

What begins as an even - paced, fairly straightforward story takes a turn for the truly bizarre the minute Takeshi appears on the screen; the film becomes a discomfiting mixture of extreme violence, dead - pan humor and blithe misogyny.

The film takes a straightforward approach, hitting the highlights of her legal career, providing revelations into her private life and marriage, delving into her reputation as a dissenting voice on the bench, and celebrating her longevity and influence.

Writer / director Sally Potter takes a straightforward approach to her material, and for a film that relies so much on dialogue, it flows extremely well.

However, it is with Blind that their talents have come into full fruition; Vogt's internal dialogue carries the film, with Ingrid acting as narrator for all the film's characters, both in her reality and in her fictions, and Bakatakis» imagery taking an expressionist approach by focusing more on sensory details and framing than a straightforward representation of Ingrid's reality.