Like La Haine, Fish Tank takes place in and around a suburban housing estate rather than an inner-city development, lending the film its bleak power.
Even if it will soon have to lower its expectations, the UDF should at least do better than it did in 1992, when it had a brief and bleak spell in power.
The conditions, as reported by Lee, were bleak: frequent power cuts, permanent damp, no oven, scant and basic food.
The bleak expressive power of his music came across loud and clear in what felt like a curtain-raiser for a rewarding set of concerts.
Some of the pictures are of South African landscapes: flat, bleak, broken by power lines and reactors.
Sooth this holiday's horrors for high powered single gals, for whom absence of love has become a bleak presence as they power through their busy lives untouched.
Like Ray's bank account, his fortunes are beholden to female spending power, and bleak times mean that there is less money pumping through the economy for Botox.
The story of Rolf Harris's rise to national treasure status and his ability to entertain is extraordinary, but when that's all stripped away, here is a very ordinary tale of a bleak abuse of male power over young girls.
Mantel, celebrated for her portrait of a cunning, manipulative man (the Thomas Cromwell of her "Wolf Hall" books), turns, in these stories, to sour, impassive women whose sole recourse against bleak circumstance is the power to describe it pitilessly.
June 16 2015 When the Danish rockers Iceage made their New York début, in 2011, they raised more than a few eyebrows; none of the members were of legal drinking age, and the shows, powered by bleak, nervy post-punk, often ended in puddles of blood onstage and off.
