Sentences with phrase «themes of abandonment»

With its dark themes of abandonment and depression the story is surprisingly compelling.

Dealing with themes of abandonment, bullying and self - esteem issues, the script contains some infrequent profanities and brief rude humor.

Cussing, profanities and brief rude anatomical humor are used in a script that deals with themes of abandonment, homelessness and unemployment.

Studio Ghibli's latest and Disney's 2002 film both deal with themes of abandonment, alienation and loss.

Not exact matches

This is a movie about longing, desire, desperation and the abandonment of principle - quite a collection of themes, all universal.

Following the exploits of the Paris police department's «child protection unit,» Polisse (which screened early on) helped to establish this year's Croisette - spanning theme of children in peril, which could be found to varying extents in fellow Competition entries Michael (kidnapping and pedophilia), Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin (teenage sociopathy), Aki Kaurismäki's universally admired Le Havre (illegal immigration), and the Dardenne Brothers» Grand Jury Prize co-winner The Kid with a Bike (child abandonment); in the Directors» Fortnight entry Play (bullying); and in just about every film at the 50th - anniversary edition of the Critics» Week, from French actress - director Valérie Donzelli's opening - night Declaration of War (pediatric cancer) to Israeli actress - director Hagar Ben Asher's The Slut (pedophilia again), the fact - based 17 Girls (teen pregnancy), and the profoundly disturbing Snowtown, which recalled Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer in its verité sketch of Australian serial killer John Bunting, who lured local youths into aiding and abetting his violent crimes throughout the Nineties.

A sickly twist on nuclear morals and unadulterated, thoroughly punitive obsession, National Lampoon's Vacation etched a dark twist on small town American dreams, couching the woes of extended family, the thirst for adventure and the troubles of enclosed spaces in with themes of adultery, abuse, abandonment and totally warped family values; with a corporate theme park ironically standing in as a last bastion of joy.

As much a peek into a tortured psyche as an exploration of an abundance of universal themes, from intolerance to abandonment to the need to belong.

Exploring similar themes to Aliu's short story collection, Domesticated Wild Things (winner of the 2012 Prairie Schooner Book Prize), Brass is a unique twist on a mother - daughter story as well as an immigrant's tale, with reflections on abandonment, dreams, disappointment and the kind of resilience it takes to endure, despite all odds.

Some common themes in her surreal works include loneliness, fear of abandonment, and apprehension about growing up.

Drawn from public and private collections, including MoMA's own, this survey is organized around three key themes: abstraction, Neo-Concretism, and the «abandonment» of art.

Exploring themes of migration, separation, abandonment, and coming of age.

Bourgeois's childhood memories, her involvement in the family tapestry business, and the caregiving she provided her mother — along with pervasive feelings of abandonment — would become important themes in her work.

These drawings articulate physical drives and feelings, candidly confronting themes of identity, sexuality and the fear of loss and abandonment through joint expression.

Each work portrays one of the main themes that she explored during her artistic practice — first, the abandonment of painting in favour of environments and actions in the mid 1960s: Voir clair: La Gioconda aux essuie - glaces (To See Clearly: The Mona Lisa with Windshield Wipers), 1965.