Sentences with phrase «tragic comedy»

With a perfect balance of heart and humor, Toni Erdmann transcends its clichéd premise, becoming one of the most tragic comedies of the decade so far.

All films in the Italian Film Festival and Conference film series will be screened as planned, without Franco Maresco in attendance.A satirical and tragic comedy set in Palermo.

Like many tragic comedies dealing with family matters, the script overcompensates for sadness with manic and chaotic humor that's often a distraction.

This month, the hashtag #teacherlife has had a huge uptick in the Twittersphere, showing the world the all - too - real tragic comedy of being a...

Yet, despite all of the darkness and the heavy subject matter, the record manages to strike hopeful notes throughout the tragic comedy.

You would have thought all that tragic comedy had been interred with the Cold War (1947 - 1991), with its insane capitalist - communist ideological posturing, until Jammeh, the Gambian tragic mimic, bobbed up.

There are elements of tragedy and comedy in this character and in this performance, and in that regard, Mendelsohn and Gerry are the heart of this film, which plays out as a tragic comedy in one moment and comic tragedy in the next.

Based on Philip Roth's final novel, it is a tragic comedy about a man who has lived inside his own imagination for too long.

It's sort of like a tragic comedy in some ways, but I don't know, when you look at Cheap Thrills, part of it is, the stories we tell about who we are in contrast with what we're actually doing and it's like everyone is the hero of their own movie, «I'm a good guy, I'm doing this for this reason» and I wanted to push that even further and create a guy that is so obviously a bad person, to everyone, except him.

Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer's Night (1955) has been described as a tragic comedy and that's a pretty fair way to categorize it.

When relating this history to the exhibition theme of tragic comedy, I recall Judd's fervent stance that painting was over.

The KunstlerCast is a free podcast about «the tragic comedy of suburban sprawl.»

Lord Lester of Herne Hill QC, dismissed the debate on scrapping the CMP provisions in the Bill as a «tragic comedy» (Col 1898).