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…
Tag: Tragicomedy
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,…
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.
Il Posto [1961] – A Masterful Study of Human Condition in a Compartmentalized World I felt an aching realization while watching Ermanno Olmi’s Il Posto (aka ‘The Job’ or ‘Sound of Trumpets’,…
The unbridled energy, immediacy and meticulously visualized set-pieces in Youssef Chahine’s Cairo Station (aka ‘Bab el hadid’, 1958) could serve as the fine introduction point to one of Egypt’s most renowned and…