Sentences with phrase «verite style»

Writer / director Isabel Coixet uses a loose cinema verite style to give the film a dreamy blanket of quiet.

In cinema verite style, two men impersonate active duty combat soldiers on leave from Iraq in a small town near West Point.

It could be the distracting cinema verite style, it could be the heavy improvisation and at times inconsistent acting, it could be the terribly transparent exposition, the way the first 45 minutes takes a few too many shortcuts to force its intrigue to the fore.

Shot with heavy reliance on shaky cam and a cinema verite style, the aesthetic is designed to produce an easy, conversational atmosphere from which events can degrade.

This is borne out by the film's relative lack of interest in anything that happens after Grant dies — the compelling story of the cell phone footage, the trial, the controversial verdict, and the unrest and memorialization that followed is told mostly through curt, pre-credit-roll titles.Yet the film also tries hard for a verite style, as opposed to something more allegorical, and so we have to conclude that we're supposed to accept its less believable moments at face value.

Not exact matches

It's a low - budget winner combining a sharp, protean visual style — one minute music video, the next cinema verite — with impudent humour, raw emotion, a thumping good rap soundtrack and some pertinent lessons in choice and responsibility.

Capturing the essence of its subject more than recapping her life and career, this verite - style documentary from director Sophie Fiennes follows the venerable Jamaican singer for several years, showing that she still has the same feisty spirit and magnetic stage presence well into her 60s.

«Filmmaker Robert Drew, a pioneer of the modern documentary who in Primary and other movies mastered the intimate, spontaneous style known as cinema verite and schooled a generation of influential directors that included D.A. Pennebaker and Albert Maysles, has died at age 90.

What We Do in the Shadows Even if you're sick of vampire movies, you'll enjoy this one, a mock documentary from New Zealand that follows, in the style of low - budget cinema verite, four vampires sharing a house in Wellington.

The Amityville Tapes — a cinema verite - styled sequel — had been in development for quite some time, I wonder if this will be revived?

The film is far from verite, but Field has shot the story in a natural and unobtrusive style — he lets the story tell the story.