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It is an excellent film, in its own right, and one of the best
portraits
of a midlife crisis ever put to film.
We're really talking about creepily creaking doors, eerie
portraits
that appear to be moving, spontaneously dying candles although there's no wind and smoke coming from underneath heavy wooden chamber doors.
this has by far been one of the most beautiful
portraits
of a person that I've ever seen on screen.
Thank you Dan for open our eyes and give us one of the most beautiful
portraits
of the most wonderful countries of the world.
Leaving the
portraits
of the opponent soldiers behind, except just one and leaving the economic question behind makes this movie to an McDonald food, cheap and fast food for the mind.
The sort of show that simply wouldn't make it to television today, "Then Came Bronson" told quiet, lyrical, sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic stories about a young man traveling through America in search of personal meaning; unlike many attempts at this theme, the show was never heavy-handed, offering intelligent, often quirky character
portraits
of the people Jim Bronson encountered.
bloody as it can be the movie only
portraits
the "bad" part of a beautiful country.
She actually looks like
portraits
of women of the era rather than a conventionally movie star.
The transitions from location to location are beautifully constructed; a series of intimate painterly portraits, introducing you to the vulnerable underbelly of each city.
This has got to be one of the most AMAZING films ever made, not only for the astounding cinematography, the quiet, subtle, yet overpowering drama, the incredible pacing of the story, the compelling character portraits, but also for very intelligently conceived cinema verite techniques.
It
portraits
quite well the life of athletes and how maybe they give all their life such in gymnastics.
These people strive to be living portraits, perfect in every visible detail.
I appreciate that the series tries to give us a look at a Henry other than the fat old Henry of the Holbein
portraits.
Charlotte Rampling is superb in Swimming Pool, and in Sous Le Sable (Under the Sand), she creates one of the most stunningly subtle and heartbreaking
portraits
of grief that I've ever experienced; this film is profoundly sad, a brilliantly accomplished, astoundingly mature piece of work.
The acting is generally good, there are convincing
portraits
of a half dozen main characters and the supports aren't bad.
Then there are innumerable other memorable portraits, all introducing a social theme (such as Nicola's factory-worker friend, made redundant during Fiat's crisis at the start of the 80s, or Matteo's colleague, the working-class policeman, who ends up on a wheelchair after a beating at a political demonstration in the 70s).
Oh, but you know Jeremy's got his comeuppance coming to him, yes sir! Jeremy notices a painting on the wall(Hendrick's
portraits
line the wall of the stairwell) and the freshly dug grave where dear dead Uncle was buried begins to change every time he looks at it.
The
portraits
of Politkovskaya, like a multitude of mirrors, were calling us back to a much darker reality.
At the May 9 Victory Day celebration, commemorating the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, more than a million people throughout the country marched, holding
portraits
of Stalin and the fallen in all Russian wars, including the current one in Ukraine.
Stalin’s ghost is no substitute for a real live leader; he will never leap out of his portraits, no matter how often they are waved.
In the city that bears his name, Ho Chi Minh is more or less ignored, although his
portraits
loom alongside Sony and Coca Cola signs.
In Russia, only two Gulag sites, in Solovki and in Perm, have small museums that show conditions in the camps, the techniques of torture and murder, the documents, and the
portraits.
An Indian diplomat in Damascus a few years ago told me that the only publicly displayed
portraits
as big as those of then-President Hafez al-Assad were of the Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan.
Perhaps the greatest display of this political schizophrenia took place last month in Red Square, where a witch’s brew of Red “Victory” flags, tri-color “Imperial” flags, Stalin portraits, and Orthodox icons marched side by side during the 60th anniversary celebration marking WWII’s end.
Moralism and the ArtsNEW YORK – Chuck Close is an American artist, famous for painting large
portraits.
Called to protest America's impending attack on Iraq, marchers set effigies of George Bush and Tony Blair on fire as smiling
portraits
of Osama bin Laden, draped with fresh flowers, looked on.
Similar billboards, emblazoned with
portraits
of leaders from Vladimir Lenin to Leonid Brezhnev, once lined the roads of the Soviet Union.
Though Putin’s
portraits
are absent from Russian roads today, incessant footage of him on national television is not.
You can see it in
portraits
by Frans Hals of seventeenth-century Dutch worthies dressed in sober but expensive black clothes.
In Katowice,
portraits
of “unpatriotic” MEPs are hung from gallows.
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