As the relations among the family members and their employees blossom into marital combat, generational conflict and quiet class war, Mr. Im, with serene, almost voluptuous assurance, creates a tone that hovers between ice-cold comedy and feverish melodrama.
Mr. Allen used the house for an exterior shot in the 1994 television version of his 1966 cold-war comedy "Don't Drink the Water".
The most likely art house hit, shown at Sundance, is Sophie Barthes's comedy "Cold Souls".
9. Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene The cold war as comedy.
After years of unsuccessful movie roles (the nadir was probably 2001's Out Cold, a snowboarding comedy starring Lee Majors), now Galifianakis finds himself firmly in the spotlight.
Then there was his performance in the ice-cold, ultra-black comedy World's Greatest Dad, in 2009, in which he plays another creepy yet tragic character, a high-school teacher whose son dies in a grisly accident, and who then concocts a bogus suicide note and rides a wave of celebrity and sympathy.
Nesbitt got his breakthrough television role playing Adam Williams in the romantic comedy-drama Cold Feet (1998 2003), which won him a British Comedy Award, a Television and Radio Industries Club Award, and a National Television Award.
That was the conceit of the Cold War's greatest comedy, "Dr. Strangelove," and it was the conceit of North Korea's recent rocket-launch extravaganza.
After more than ten years at Granada television - where her stellar career was launched with the mould-breaking comedy drama Cold Feet - she joined BBC Films last autumn.
The theater also drew emerging filmmakers like Sophie Barthes, who recently said she had been impressed with the "engaged" audience and their questions about her "Cold Souls," a quirky comedy starring Paul Giamatti.
