Tag: Tragicomedy

Sally Hawkins in The Lost King (2022) Review

The Lost King (2022): Movie Review & Ending Explained

The last time director Stephen Frears worked with the script by Jeff Pope & Steve Coogan, and they created an Oscar-nominated feature – Philomena. After the success of this sensitive tragicomedy, the…

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10 Essential Aki Kaurismaki Films

Dive bars, cheap restaurants, battered vintage cars, cigarettes, booze, accordions, portable radios, adorable dogs, bouquet of flowers, vinyl records, mixed music tracks (jazz, tango, rockabilly, etc), acerbic irony, deadpan wit, Bressonian minimalism,…

Few reasons why ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ is an incredible piece of Tragicomedy

With Little Miss Sunshine, Michael Arndt, the Oscar winning screenwriter, completely challenges the idea of bifurcating people into two sets of ‘winners’ and ‘losers’ – two extreme zones, cultivated by the society, that is  just not true and is a very problematic idea of success that we put ourselves through.