Sentences with phrase «wry comedy which»
Straight out of the John Landis school of horror with body transformations and wry comedy which infuse well in the horror shell.
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The philosopher Stanley Cavell has called the classic screwball movies like The Awful Truth (1937) and The Lady Eve (1941) «comedies of remarriage,» in which couples are rudely bounced from their Edenic connubial gardens and reunited (after a series of farcical / magical contrivances) in a spirit of wry realism: This time they know they'll live bumpily ever after.
The movie, which Nanjiani wrote with Gordon, alternates seamlessly between gentle pathos and wry comedy, then back again.
Ultimately, Meet the Parents is one of the funniest comedies I've seen since Annie Hall, a film with which it shares a wry sensibility about modern romance.
Also valuable and worth noting is «La Vie En Rose» which of course featured a spectacular turn by Marion Cotillard that was unexpectedly celebrated by Oscar, Zoe Cassavetes «severely underrated, wry and sweet, «Broken English,» which includes a very winning and charming turn by Parker Posey; Susanne Bier «s Danish drama, «After the Wedding» and perhaps surprisingly equally engaging, her underrated survival and recovery drama, «Things We Lost In The Fire,» which is made great by Benicio Del Toro (and even Halle Berry evinces that she's capable of good work in spots), Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul «s always mysterious and bifurcated, «Syndromes And A Century» (which has elements of both sci - fi and comedy).