Sentences with phrase «wrenching films»

Led by terrific central performances and incredibly imaginative direction, he has crafted one of the most heart - wrenching films of the year.

At times this can be a very gut and heart wrenching film, and really awkward and uncomfortable, but it is presented in a respectful manner with characters that are very well developed and interesting.

This may be his most wrenching film, but Dick has previously investigated related subjects.

Who would have thought that it would be a master of fantasy like Steven Spielberg who would direct what might be the most wrenching film ever made?

The Glass Castle offers up a movie clan to beat in terms of complete dysfunction, though the brutal and heart - wrenching film is in its own way just as much of a mess.

Released: September 15 Director: Yance Ford Why it's great: First - time director Yance Ford takes a first - person approach to documenting the case of his brother's murder in this emotionally gut - wrenching film memoir.

But in the moment, it's a dizzying breath of fresh air, and sets the mood for Sean Baker's brilliant, buoyant, and ultimately heart - wrenching film.

It's a haunting, gut - wrenching film, and one whose beauty lies not just in Tsai's immaculately composed shots, but in the 4th dimension of time itself.

Though it wasn't designed as such, the NC - 17 is still considered a mark of shame to many, but Blue Valentine's fearless candor and extreme emotional intensity should be a source of pride for everyone involved in this remarkable, utterly wrenching film.

True to the success of recent emotional indie games, Last Day of June is a bit like a playable version of Disney's heart - wrenching film UP.

Not exact matches

Slavery, as many times as we've seen it on film, is gut wrenching in a fresh way.

It can be emotionally wrenching when your baby's delivery resembles a medical school film instead of the beautiful, transcendent videos from your childbirth class.

There were certain gut - wrenching moments as well, as the film didn't shy away from the reality that not all children have the care that they should.

«I think this film is extremely important,» says Nick, who goes on to describe how «emotionally draining and wrenching» it is to be interviewed.

I respect your position here Tony, but I found DISTRICT 9 one of the most powerful films of the years, a persuasive and wrenching examination of man's inhumanity to man.

She appeared in a number of series, including the popular crime drama Cracker and such costume extravaganzas as Jane Eyre and Emma.Morton became known to an international film audience in 1997, when she won wide acclaim for her wrenching, fearless portrayal of a young woman driven to promiscuous behavior by the death of her mother in Carine Adler's Under the Skin.

These wrenching qualities also make the film a tough sell.

The film - making might not be particularly polished, but the subject matter of this documentary is wrenching.

There is a scene where Gonzalez, the youngest member of the cast, delivers the most emotionally raw moment in the film, and it is gut - wrenching in the best way (think Hiro's «I'm satisfied with my care» moment in «Big Hero 6,» times infinity).

Also earning the highest Metascore of the festival, the film is a «tender, wrenching, and beautifully made movie,» according to Owen Gleiberman of Variety, with a «remarkable performance» by Mary Kay Place in the title role as a widow who spends her days caring for others, including her drug - addicted son.

The film is entirely within the caught - on - the - run tradition of cinema verite, which makes it all the grittier and its conclusion all the more wrenching.

In contrast, the particulars of Akin's film are absolutely heart - wrenching, yet somehow his protagonist remains composed and immeasurably cool.

But he's not got a great deal to work with and what the film crucially fails to do is fill us with that same dread that made its predecessor so gut - wrenching.

In Agnieszka Holland's wrenching new film, «In Darkness,» based on a true story, a Polish Catholic sewer worker named Leopold Socha (Robert Wieckiewicz) and his younger sidekick, Szczepek (Krzysztof Skonieczny), discover a way of supplementing their income: they loot abandoned houses and sort through possessions dumped into the street; they store the goods in the city's sewers.

This section is the only time that the film actually comes alive with some degree of motion and power, and Cooper Hooper fills the screen with gut - wrenching moments of bravery and cruelty that effectively channels the soul and spirit of the Hugo text.

Owen pulls off some heart - wrenching scenes, although it's Liberato's revelatory performance as the emotionally confused teen that holds the film together.

He's already racked with guilt from watching the costs of his education tear their marriage apart — in the film's most wrenching scene, we discover that David's father has slumped into a drunken stupor.

Full of uncomfortable character turns, the film dives headfirst into parental and Oedipal trauma, the lines between its female characters blurring in gut - wrenching ways.

The chilly, oppressive Danish film Pelle the Conqueror has only one artistic aim: to wrench as much pity as possible from its audience.

Writer - director Sian Heder makes her feature film debut with «Tallulah,» a touching and emotionally wrenching Netflix original starring Ellen Page, Allison Janney, and Tammy Blanchard.

The film deserves every bit of emotion it wrenches from your soul.

In the only concrete conflict of the film, the sister from LA throws a monkey wrench into Adam and Eve's chilled out lifestyle, demanding they all go out and over indulge on their «good» blood.

NPR's Bob Mondello says: The film's most wrenching performance, in fact, comes from Viola Davis, who plays the boy's worried mother as a woman who is in no...

It all boils into an ultimately wrenching conclusion where a most unlikely character sacrifices it all to save the group, but with a tantalizing hope that the third film will handle a character arc that had fanboys leaving the theater salivating at the prospect of a third film.

Aside from «Red,» I saw two heart - wrenching Asian films.

The tune works wonders in the film's trailer, and then in the full feature it takes on an entirely new form, the song being shot in one single close - up on Hathaway, making the moment incredibly raw and heart wrenching.

Talk about ambitious: For his second film, following 2011's gut - wrenching murder story Snowtown, Aussie director Justin Kurzel has rounded up a stunning cast and gone straight for the most notoriously tough play on Shakespeare's résumé.

Finally, it closes with the best finale of any film this year, the most heart - wrenching ending I've seen in a studio film in years, that for once shows us the emotional toll that a taut thrill - ride would have on a person in real life.

The inclusion of several thoroughly wrenching sequences within the film's latter half - ie Becca and Howie engage in a screaming match - proves instrumental in cementing Rabbit Hole's place as an unexpectedly powerful piece of work, with the movie ultimately representing an almost astonishing improvement over Mitchell's previous effort (2006's amateurish and ill - conceived Shortbus).

The last line of the film, in what should have been the capper of a gut - wrenching finale, is, «I don't feel a thing».

Two of the year's very best films receive their Polish premieres in the form of Kelly Reichardt's swoon - worthy Certain Women and Kenneth Lonergan's heart - wrenching Manchester by the Sea, while Clint Eastwood makes a smooth landing with the Tom Hanks - starring Sully.

The film comes in the wake of 2013's heart wrenching Sundance Jury Prize award winner, Blood Brother, a film that seemed to come out of nowhere to wow audiences and critics alike, and apparently even the likes of Terrence Malick and Atticus Ross who came on to Hoover's latest project to executive produce and serve as composer, respectively.

The role (written by Joe Eszterhas, a few years before he turned into a punchline) is one - dimensional, and the film (directed by Costa - Gavras) has largely been forgotten, but Lange manages to dig in and find a few gut - wrenching moments as her character struggles to come to terms with a grim family history.

Exactly 20 years ago that film paired impressive filmmaking with a wrenching subject, and in so doing achieved something remarkable — used cinema to change the way we view a cataclysmic period we thought we knew.

Guest director Joshua Oppenheimer, whose wrenching «The Act of Killing» debuted at TFF in 2012, has put together an eclectic program that includes Werner Herzog's 1970 «Even Dwarfs Started Small» (with Herzog in attendance), Jon Bang Carlsen's intriguing and obscure «Hotel of the Stars» (1981), an hour - long Danish documentary about extras who live in a shabby apartment hotel in Hollywood; the only movie directed by Charles Laughton, 1955's exquisitely - shot «The Night of the Hunter,» starring a brilliant, terrifying Robert Mitchum, and fortuitously playing in his centenary year; «Salam Cinema,» Mohsen Makmalbaf's 1995 record of auditions by aspiring actors; a new print of Frederick Wiseman's long - banned, corrosive «Titicut Follies» (1967), filmed in a notorious Massachusetts hospital for the criminally insane; and Jacques Demy's glorious, gorgeous musical, «The Umbrellas of Cherbourg» (1967), starring the glorious, gorgeous Catherine Deneuve.

But the lack of vigor is most clearly felt when Nemesis tries to crib a trick or two from some of the earlier films with the intention of wrenching a few hearts.

The Skin I Live In was a twisted and stomach - churning horror film from Pedro Almodovar, while A Separation was a heart - wrenching look at a marriage in crisis.

Here's a little blurb on Animal Kingdom from the Sundance film guide: «Wielding a formidable cinematic lexicon, writer / director David Michôd shows complete command of every frame as he shifts between simmering intensity and gut - wrenching drama.

Ben Cook as Aaron Fisher is appropriately wrenching and hints at a different film about the effects of sexual assault.

Pivoting around a split - second of panic, the film mixes earthy honesty and wrenching emotions to explore...