Sentences with phrase «than the drama between»

The tango between these two characters is far more interesting than anything else the picture has to offer, and it would have made for a stronger «A story» than the drama between Matthews and his son.

Not exact matches

What is it like to believe the Universe is less than 10,000 years old and was designed and created entirely as a stage for a little drama between humanity, Satan and God?

Their narrative faithfully portrays the movement of the drama, with its fundamental unity and continuity, even though in fact the interval between the arrest and the session of the council, and between that and the trial before Pilate, may have been more considerable than appears.

Look at how much less space there is between people than even just twenty years ago; look at how much violence a child sees all day long (whether recreational or real - life drama in their own lives); look at how much information many children are exposed to daily without any oversight.

That is the difference between a person that is mentally strong and one that is weak, and here you will get a deeper insight into some of the most notable signs that may indicate you are UNGRATEFUL MOANERS are mentally weak, you Tend To Complain More Than Other People, Mentally Weak People Do Not Want To Step Out Of Their Comfort Zone, Mentally Weak People Do Not Take Different People's Ideas into Account, Quickly angry, You Tend To Be Overly Dramatic (drama queens).

As the trials of Skelos and Silver play out over the coming months, the greater drama will be just off in the wings: a clash between a wily, aggressive governor and a prosecutor who may be wilier and more aggressive than he is.

Percoco, a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, is on trial accused of accepting more than $ 300,000 in bribes from upstate business developers — payments referred to as «ziti» in communications between Percoco and lobbyist Todd Howe, the prosecution's a star witness who testified that the term was borrowed from the former HBO mob drama.

Percoco, a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, is accused of accepting more than $ 300,000 in bribes from upstate developers — payments referred to as «ziti» in communications between Percoco and lobbyist Todd Howe, the prosecution's star witness who testified that the term was borrowed from the former HBO mob drama.

Sisters: How stranger - than - fiction controversies inspired new Australian drama Dating and relationships issues between younger men and older women.

More than any other word, that tidily sums up Teller, who pinballs between beloved indies and big - budget fare like Fantastic Four and, this year alone, both a comedy opposite Jonah Hill (War Dogs) and an upcoming drama about PTSD (Thank You for Your Service).

The Way Way Back does generate a fair amount of laughs throughout the film, but misses on the emotional level because of the underplayed drama between mother and son — a shame because Collette's character had real potential to be more than just a naïve mother who is content with looking the other way for everything in life.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

Meanwhile, no one image helped to sell the indie family drama Krisha better than its title character staring off into the middle distance, cigarette between her fingers, contemplating how she's going to survive the however - many minutes she has left with her family.

The core bond between these two is just a secondary layer of drama, but it's the reason why Boone's movie works as well as it does because it echoes the core drama, which is none other than young love.

Frantiek Vláčil's direction feels more confident than genuinely realized, jarring between and rarely fully fleshing out his vision of a subtle drama and solid artistic expression, but no matter how much Vláčil's questionable touches hold the film back, when it comes to style, there is plenty of striking imagery and haunting plays on technical value and musicality to establish plenty of commendable aesthetic value, and when it comes to substance, when he gains a grip on his thoughtfulness, he delivers on a piercing subtlety and grace which was a fair ways ahead of the time.

The film shifts between thriller and drama, and it might have been better if it had gone for one or the other, rather than straddling both with only a modicum of success.

Because the film contains so many characters spread out all over the globe with only a single link between each, the film plays more like an anthology (like «Paris, Je T'Aime») than a multicharacter drama whose characters arcs are linked together inextricably, like we get in, say, «Magnolia.»

Most of the film revolves around a college student named Danielle (Shannon Lucio) and her less - than - enthralling efforts to choose between two potential beaus, which consequently affords the proceedings the feel of a shallow and silly teen drama.

Lynne Ramsay You might want to avoid the films of Lynne Ramsay — including this 2011 drama about the relationship between a mother (Tilda Swinton) and her, erm, less than well - adjusted son (Ezra Miller)-- if you're having a bad day.

It's a shame, however, that Reitman is more concerned with a banal thesis based on flattening the differences between people, than with the kind of drama that emerges from their complexity.

That may result in less thrills, but Season Four seems to have finally struck the perfect balance between zombie action and human drama, and although audiences love the former, there aren't many shows that do drama better than «The Walking Dead.»

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

From Academy Award - nominated screenwriter JOHN LOGAN (Gladiator, The Aviator, Hugo, Skyfall) and acclaimed, Tony Award - winning director MICHAEL GRANDAGE in his feature film debut, comes Genius, a stirring drama about the complex friendship and transformative professional relationship between the world - renowned book editor Maxwell Perkins (who discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway) and the larger - than - life literary giant Thomas Wolfe.

Jenkins is one of those actors who's never anything less than wonderful, stealing the show in countless films, able to turn on a sixpence between comedy and drama, and elevating everything he's in.

12:00 N — TCM — Brief Encounter Beautifully understated romantic drama of a chance encounter at a railway station cafe between two married people who know better than to indulge their burgeoning love for each other, but do so anyway.

The drama is based on five novels published between 1992 and 2011 by Edward St Aubyn, a British novelist who bears more than a passing resemblance to his protagonist.

Any new Paul Thomas Anderson film is guaranteed to create excitement, but «Phantom Thread» has generated more buzz than usual for two reasons: The drama marks a reunion between Anderson and Daniel Day - Lewis ten years after «There Will Be Blood» and the movie finds the director serving as his own cinematographer on a feature film for the first time.

Unlike so many of its Academy - approved horror predecessors, it came from an original screenplay; Shyamalan's delicate, muted treatment of the relationship between the child and Bruce Willis's mournful psychologist also made it seem more like a drama than a traditionally terrifying supernatural tale.

Yet it rarely left its stage roots with the «drama» coming from the words rather than the actions as it became a series of intense conversations between successful businessman Victor Quinn (Pryce), poet Paul Peplow (Considine) and Quinn's recovering addict wife Elsa (Thurman).

The unnaturally long gap between this uninspired sequel and 1999's The Best Man is more head - scratchingly intriguing than anything in the plot of this tepid comedy / drama.

I personally caught it at TIFF and gave a full point more than our Tommaso Tocci, who out of Venice made the comparison between his debut and now this sophomore film citing «he returns with a much more complex and layered three - part drama that nonetheless retains the urgency and authenticity of Maoz's desire to engage with his own experience of war.»

That carries us through the downtime between the action scenes, although it's much more tenable for purposes of comic relief than for drama (The film still continues the silly amnesia storyline for Letty).

This is closer to an Oscar preview than the best - picture races, since there's no separation between drama and musical / comedy.

It successfully struck a balance between drama, action and comedy better than most other adventure games I've played over the years.

Between the close hanging and the starkness of black and white, the varied shapes look flatter than ever but possess a greater drama.

On your more general point (realism of court - room dramas) the most striking difference between TV and real life (from my single experience) was that the entire court process was far more geared around the jury than is (usually) depicted on TV: witnesses are directed to talk TO the jury (not to the barristers or judge); we were encouraged to indicate to the judge if at any time we were uncertain, or «uncomfortable» for any reason (e.g. because of the nature of the evidence, or simply if we needed the toilet).