Sentences with phrase «with high melodrama»

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Amenábar's sweeping directorial choices are consistently undermined by the pervasively artificial atmosphere, as the movie primarily transpires on expensive sets that look like expensive sets - with the less - than - authentic vibe ultimately exacerbated by the screenplay's relentlessly overwrought nature (ie the interplay between certain characters smacks of high melodrama).

The social and professional milieus of ballet companies are rife with tensions, ego - conflicts and melodramas of the highest order.

In other words, with all the high - melodrama and histrionics, it finally, fatally crosses the line into comedy.

In Chronicle, Josh Trank's (who's previously worked on TV's «The Kill Point») theatrical debut, we learn that, much like how it is with young love, when high school students are confronted with superpowers, things can quickly escalate from skipping stones and playing aeronautical football to committing crimes of passion and bouts of melodrama.

The film's structure is similar to that of «Crash,» another overweening, high - style melodrama that reeked with self - importance.

The third act plot turn which blights La Piscine is beautifully handled in A Bigger Splash, with the picture's operatic structure, along with Guadagnino's irrepressible flair for high melodrama, amplifying the sensory impact.

With four main characters, caught up in a melodrama about divorce, the risk of this story veering into one dimensional histrionics is high, but Farhadi navigates it thanks to an almost novelistic drawing of his characters and narrative.

It's like an American indie reworking of Hollywood high melodrama — initial pettiness and sniping grows into passive - aggressive war between bitchy frenemies in close quarters — but instead of the theatrical thrill of showboating spectacle of divas dueling with sophisticated wit and sneering delivery we get something uncomfortably intimate and personal.

As one might expect with such a plot, The Blue Rose is high on the melodrama.

If it had been produced by a major Western studio, the story no doubt would have devolved into high melodrama with a tidy ending.

The setting is asked to be the visual representation of the decay of father - son relationships stretching into eternity; the question of whether Cain's transgression is an indelible mark on the soul, passed from generation to generation, finds a weak foundation here in what is essentially a broad and laggard melodrama packed with unconvincing highs and unmoving lows.

You'll only be left with a high - toned MILF melodrama.

High Crimes is a bad film with good actors, and it just might seem credible enough due to the performances to entertain viewers who aren't as concerned with a tight plot than in good actors and melodrama.

Despite the many impossible - odds shootouts and high melodrama of the story, the game somehow never takes itself too seriously, with Nathan Drake (once again, superbly played by Nolan North) always only a matter of minutes away from his next witty one - liner.

With emotions running high, the Olympics is more like a melodrama than a sports event.