Sentences with phrase «wry comedy»

His follow - up to his Sundance Grand Prize - winning breakthrough film Forty Shades of Blue is an ambitious challenge: a 1940s melodrama of adultery and murder played as wry comedy of manners and directed in a naturalistic style with a modern sensibility.

Garcia excels at eliciting strong performances throughout and maintaining a consistent mood poised delicately between wry comedy and more serious contemplation of contemporary American female lives.

Sterritt *** Marvelously wry comedy about the odd relationship between a crusty Norwegian man and a snoopy Swedish researcher who's assigned to sit in his kitchen and chart his movements there.

Mixing wry comedy and unexpected pathos, and featuring music by Mark Knopfler, this stirring ode to Forsyth's native Scotland follows a Texas oil executive (Peter Riegert) whose life is changed when his boss (Burt Lancaster) sends him to a Scottish village to buy up land for a new refinery.

While some falter due to a bit more melodrama than I'd like, the series» emphasis on wry comedy undercuts those flaws.

Straight out of the John Landis school of horror with body transformations and wry comedy which infuse well in the horror shell.

Seamlessly integrating classic Wonder Woman lore with her own updated take, Bardugo fleshes out Diana's backstory and the mythology of Themyscira, adds in sly commentary on feminism and equality, and leavens the package with wry comedy — Diana's dour obliviousness to contemporary culture will make readers guffaw.

The end result is a rather pleasant soap opera of sorts, teeming with secrets, lies, and relationships kept under wraps, but it also finds the time to slip in some wry comedy and create a great period environment.

The result is a lot more moronics than demonics in the wry comedy - horror IDLE HANDS.

For those more concerned with what «The Avengers» movies do best — outsize spectacle and wry comedy — Age of Ultron has to be declared a victory.

Blended with his black, wry comedy, the picture follows a truly unique journey.

Mendonça Filho's debut feature, O Som Ao Redor (Neighbouring Sounds, 2013) was a wry comedy examining the social dynamics in a bourgeois Recife apartment complex.

The wry comedy, financed by Amazon Studios and K5...

The wry comedy, financed by Amazon Studios and K5 International, will team the rising star with Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani -LRB-» Body Of Lies»).

With her means of support rapidly dwindling, marriage is clearly the endgame for Lady Susan — as it is for all of Austen's leading ladies — but the romantic emotion that's supposed to go along with it proves to be little more than a social affect in this wry comedy of manners.

The movie, which Nanjiani wrote with Gordon, alternates seamlessly between gentle pathos and wry comedy, then back again.

There are moments of wry comedy — some of them courtesy of one - scene actors such as James Spader and Tim Blake Nelson — and prairie philosophizing, but also stray absurdities, and sudden violence, and one upsetting plot turn that seems questionable at first but eventually feels appropriately sad and stirring.

There's the wry comedy we've come to expect from Kaurismäki, to be sure, but with all the cigarette smoke, surfeit strumming guitar, and even an adorable dog, the worst thing you can say about this movie is that we've driven down these vodka - splashed streets before.

Things acclaimed British director Mike Leigh is known for: wry comedy - drama poking at ordinary lives and the class system, a compassionate yet sharp take on the human condition, his almost unique working method that involves workshopping and improvising for months with his cast before a frame of film is shot.