"comedy" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- (Poseidon, $17.95) An outrageous, original and energetic first novel that incorporates murder mystery, satire, Gothic, black comedy and gargoyles.
- With its small tables and chairs and rows of cushioned benches that look chic and feel easy, it continued to exhude a certain divine decadence for "The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant," a high-design, high-fashion Gothic comedy that unfortunately closed last Sunday.
- It is, as one of its producers, Nina Keneally, describes it, "a Twin Peaks-like American Gothic black comedy about a weird and wacky family that anyone who's been part of a family can relate to."
- The other candidates are "Fargo," Joel and Ethan Coen's Gothic comedy; "Shine," directed by Scott Hicks, about the tormented piano prodigy David Helfgott, and Mike Leigh's family drama, "Secrets and Lies."
- This is the heart and the horror of the novel, but it is nowhere to be understood in the movie, which, without it, is a rather chilly, plodding Gothic comedy of the 30's.
- As played by Mr. Dafoe, Schreck is both sinister and oddly sympathetic, and his struggle with the megalomaniacal Murnau (Mr. Malkovich) gives the film a flavor of Gothic behind-the-scenes comedy.
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