Not just a good boxing movie, but overall a moving and well
told film about a family's journey.
Not exact matches
Director Nora Twomey deftly guides her
film through the thorny politics of Afghanistan to
tell a story
about family and hope.
The
film never transcends its subject matter to be more than an information dump: it fails to
tell a meaningful story
about either the
family, the time period, filmmaking, or North Korea.
«The
film is very much
about family, specifically the importance of remembering
family and passing along stories to future generations so that people aren't forgotten and lost to time,» director Lee Unkrich
told Vanity Fair at the Morelia International
Film Festival in Mexico on Friday evening, where the picture opened the event with its world premiere.
Stories We
Tell explores the elusive nature of truth and memory, but at its core is a deeply personal
film about how our narratives shape and define us as individuals and
families, all interconnecting to paint a profound, funny and poignant picture of the larger human story.
A historical
film about the Seneca culture featuring the Tonawanda Indian Reservation, Bury My Heart with Tonawanda
tells the story of a developmentally disabled boy with Downs Syndrome who is rejected by his own
family but is accepted and nurtured by the Tonawanda Seneca Nation.
And that's important, because despite being a fairly serious
film about love, loss and
family, «Kubo and the Two Strings» goes
about telling its simple but layered story with such child - like optimism that it resonates even stronger as a result.
The story
tells the tale of a
family of four - inch - tall people, called Borrowers, who live hidden
about the humans or beans as they are called in the
film.
That's all well and good, and that's not to say Curtis»
film doesn't trend similarly, but in the process of this story being
told, we actually feel like we learn a thing or two
about a complicated
family dynamic.
The
film, physician directed by Lawrence Kasdan (The Big Chill, nurse Wyatt Earp), order
tells a nice — but sometimes desperate — story
about a
family coming together to search for their missing dog.
A multimedia installation of
film projections and audio explores notions of
family and love by queer - identified individuals, while a related
film, made in collaboration with artist Jennifer Moon, employs footage from home movies to
tell a story
about memory and the meaning of home.