Sentence examples for surreal farce from inspiring English sources

For more than 20 years, but particularly in the past five, we have been treated to an increasingly surreal farce.

But the sense of surreal farce and the deep black humour of some of it is distinctly underplayed.

Allen is redoing as surreal farce his old distaste for the invasive idiocy of fandom (which he skewered in "Stardust Memories") and his amazement at the universal longing for an instant in the media lights ("Celebrity").

What follows is an increasingly absurd and energetic plot in which Rose behaves at first like a demented Bennet sister in order to woo Simon, before the whole thing accelerates into a kind of surreal farce, involving a fur coat mistaken for a bear and everyone realising they're actually in love with everyone else.

Booth describes the prose as "a mix of Daphne du Maurier nostalgia and surreal farce".

It was The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin, Gimme Gimme Gimme, To The Manor Born and Chris Morris' Jam all blended together into one ghastly surreal farce of high manners and low skulduggery.

His character, David Ghantt — a real-life felon who took part in an ostentatious crime in the late 1990s — is rationalizing his own miscreant deeds for the audience of "Masterminds," a would-be memorable piece of popular culture that applies the TV-sketch-show-surreal-farce approach to a based-on-true-events caper picture.

Sly Eroticism The same mixture of naïveté and sexual obsessiveness that engulfs the teenagers in "Les Filies Ne Savent Pas Nager" is turned comically upside down in "Du Poil Sous les Roses," a surreal erotic farce that brings animated fantasies into its dizzying mix.

You've been attracted throughout your career to controversial roles and projects, from "The Night Porter" to "Max, Mon Amour" [Nagisa Oshima's surreal 1986 farce about a bourgeois wife's affair with a chimpanzee], or even the recent nudes you shot with Juergen Teller.

Indeed, so entertained was the genuine novelist by the whirligig of her forebear's social mania, especially on the Isle of Wight, that she also wrote a play on the subject — a surreal semi-farce entitled "Freshwater," first performed in 1935, which is roughly as amusing as you would expect a farce by Virginia Woolf to be.

The juxtaposition of high art and low sports politics was surreal, so too the abrupt transitions from tedium to farce.