Sentences with phrase «turgid dialogue»

The film's nominal story involves a terminally ill mother, a corpse found floating in the ocean, and a tentative teen romance; as usual, though, Kawase is mostly interested in having these characters speak her ideas aloud, handing them endless turgid dialogue about nature, death, and the link between the two.

His stiff delivery does the film no favours and the turgid dialogue doesn't help matters.

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Turgid direction, probably not helped by a necessarily cautious approach to framing, is married to creaky dialogue and stiff performances to render this of purely historical interest.

Though we are largely spared Leonard Nimoy's stentorian presence as a performer, we must endure his miscalculations as a director: the dialogue scenes are often hilariously turgid; the action scenes — when Nimoy can be bothered to descend from his podium and film them — are zanily maladroit.

The dialogue throughout was just as turgid and meaningless.

A turgid adaptation of a French - language play by Peter Handke (the co-writer of some of Wenders» best movies, including Wings Of Desire, though not that you can tell here), Anarjuez presents an impossibly vague dialogue between a man and woman in a garden outside of Paris.

Perhaps it seems like over-thinking to quibble with the ideological talking points of a movie that mostly dawdles from one skit or cameo to another, interspersed with the occasional song - and - dance number, and which contains one of the best comic set pieces of the Coens» career: a director and his recently re-cast lead trying to work through a single awful line of dialogue («Would that it were so simple») while filming a turgid melodrama.