Portrait
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The film paints a
portrait
of a troubled woman who descends into paranoid schizophrenia as the end nears all the while maintaining the unexpectedly undaunted, matter-of-fact demeanor of one very much reconciled to her fate in spite of being trapped in a system with no recompense for abuse in childhood nor insanity in adulthood who well may have been failed by the criminal justice system as well.
He bemoans this by scolding the
portrait
he had apparently painted of the man earlier on and then getting drunk and angry in a bar, tossing out patrons.
As the child of a single parent who is deaf, Beyond Silence is, in most aspects, a very true
portrait
of how I grew up.
The suspects stand around in a line like they are posing for a family
portrait.
About Cheadle's character, you may have heard his performance is wooden, that is untrue, he delivers a moving
portrait
of a tortured soul subjected to a traumatic past and exposed to soul rending choices.
This is easily the most violent film I've ever seen, not in grisliness, but sheer body count, but around the endless slashing, is a
portrait
of modern Japan symbolized by the reoccurring Powers-That-Be characters who represent Society/Reality/Order(often shown meeting around a board room table and discussing how to destroy Izo), and the Buddhist Hells which serve to purify souls through pain thereby readying them for reincarnation.
Slaves of New York, is a lovable, bittersweet
portrait
that gets better with age.
It steers clear of easy points and summaries and paints a complex
portrait
of complex characters caught up in a severely flawed legal system that punishes children more than adults.
This could be the first fictional motion picture with such a
portrait.
Writer/director Curtis Hanson, who went on to win an Oscar for the terrific "L.A. Confidential," does an expert job of creating and sustaining a creepy, clammy, clinical tone for this luridly compelling
portrait
of homicidal madness and seething misogyny.
Clint Eastwood presents an honest
portrait
of war (the beauty of brotherhood, the horror of literally walking through death, the pain of dealing with survival).
It is mainly a
portrait
of a painter being driven mad by his surroundings.
I don't know if we are given a balanced
portrait
of Guevara but this performance will win Del Toro a best performing actor Oscar.
Henry was not a slasher film, it is human portrait, better yet a sort of cynical comment on films about real people.
Chabrol and the Leguaffs have indeed taken their stand with this shattering
portrait
of male terror--one that explodes out of a convincingly two-faced man, and is thus all the more effective.
Leo( Kim Bodina) gives a wonderful
portrait
of a disturbed man at odds with life.
A
portrait
of swinging San Francisco in the 1970's with a gloomy and uncomfortable detective investigating a mass murder, this opens well, but by the end has fallen pretty far.
The producers have taken great care to
portrait
the Legion properly.
Modern Chinese History forms the backdrop for this sweeping
portrait
of the Soong Sisters, three siblings who married powerful men and used their positions to influence the politics of early 20th Century China.
Dorian Gray (Helmut Berger) has his picture painted and, through some circumstances, finds his
portrait
aging while he stays young and beautiful.
This movie is a wonderful
portrait
of Southern California and the 1970's.
i thought that this was an excellent
portrait
of a deeply complex and individualistic woman.
'Papillon' is the forceful
portrait
of a defiant man, who survives harrowing years of his life in small solitary cells, suffering the worst type of brutality and despair...
The director's debut, "Pusher", was an excellent tribute to American Cinema (Abel Ferrara, Scorsese) and a
portrait
of the drugworld of Copenhagen but "Bleeder" is much more personal, mature and grim film.
Combining it with Working Girls, Hannah and her Sisters, and Bare Foot in the Park, I put this movie to
portrait
New York at its best and truest, as I want to see it, as it supposed to be, as I am seeing it.
He gives the
portrait
of the peasants and of their life in Colcatta in a persuasive way, but his story is full of unnecessary melodrama, as all life's misfortunes seem to have conspired in order to fall on Shambhu's head.
Sun's life and accomplishments are on the film record, this
portrait
will have to do.
The film is mammoth in its length, at over 12 hours, but, more importantly, it makes a considerable effort to construct a balanced
portrait
of the West and its inhabitants: Europeans as well as Native Americans, Blacks, Mexicans, Chinese, etc.
Watch the opening of Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard or read the first page of Joyce's
Portrait
of the Artist as a Young Man after Toto and you may catch my drift.
So this would be a fairly unmediated labour of love from the man who penned Casablanca 40 years earlier, and damn if I don't like it better than Casablanca - if there's one thing I wanted to see it's a
portrait
of the lapsed poet as an old womanizing souse.
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