Sentences with phrase «wrestling with mortality»

Jackie's existential wrestling with mortality in the immediate aftermath is somewhat more interesting.

Not exact matches

Even though he has rejected the faith of his father, Aiden finds himself wrestling with questions of purpose and mortality over the course of the movie.

This year's list includes two families, the Sung family from Steve James» Abacus: Small Enough to Jail and the Rainey family from Jonathan Olshefski's Quest; five people whose films bear their name, Dina Buno, Jim Carrey, Jane Goodall, Dolores Huerta and Bobbi Jene Smith; and three filmmakers who appear in their own films, wrestling with disease, murder and mortality, Jennifer Brea (Unrest), Yance Ford (Strong Island) and Agnès Varda (Faces Places).

A Ghost Story: Those who fixated on the central figure being a guy in a sheet missed the other ways in which David Lowery's mesmerizing drama was haunting — not just in portraying spirits unable to move on, but wrestling with the passage of time and mortality itself.

They speak of relationships each one of us wrestles with at some time - with ourselves, with the land, and with mortality (to name a few).

Artists including Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Tacita Dean, and Sarah Lucas have wrestled with identity, sexuality, and mortality in their provocative and at times absurdist work.

Rainer wrestled with those topics even as she doled out riffs on her own mortality.