| This film is a tragicomic ensemble piece about people on the edge and love on the rocks. |
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| Soon the entire situation spirals out of control into a tragicomic mess of blunders, language barriers, bureaucratic snafus, and spin control. |
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| What you do is squirt a packet of ketchup on your arm, have a seat and watch the tragicomic parade of gore and suffering roll past. |
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| This is the tragicomic demonstration of the internal disorder that the artist suffers despite himself. |
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| The emphasis is often on the comical, sometimes leaning towards the tragicomic, and the photos frequently make one laugh. |
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| It is tragicomic that, while condemning discrimination, one is guilty of that very thing oneself. |
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| But for anti-whaling campaigners, this tragicomic greenwash is the least of a series of bitter ironies that look set to ring in a return to commercial whaling. |
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| The curtain should now fall on the tragicomic reign of today's Silvio, too. |
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| In his novel Angel Tongues Dimtre Dinev presents us the grand, tragicomic panorama of 20th century European history... a literary sensation! |
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| Through these tragicomic scenes, the characters contend with a series of recurring themes like love, life, relationships and art. |
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| Yet beneath the gags and one-liners that pepper You Will Meet, a tragicomic pessimism is clearly obvious. |
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| I wanted to keep the tone slightly tragicomic. |
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| But finally the night belonged to Harwood, whose METAMORPHOU S revealed an artist using his substantial physical accomplishments to delineate a tragicomic figure. |
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| Cherry Blossoms is a very human, captivating and tragicomic love story about a German man who travels to Japan in search of his dead wife's unfulfilled dreams. |
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| Topics: a tragicomic journey through the incongruities of colleagues, to find out how easy it is to become victim, executioner or accomplice in one of the most studied, yet most elusive phenomena: mobbing. |
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| Gregory Cohen concentrates Chilean life and history throughout the ages into a tragicomic bathroom piece: one room, one camera angle and an ensemble portraying archetypal scenes. |
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| Second part of Kieslowki's trilogy of colours is a tragicomic story of a Polish immigrant whose wife wants to divorce him because he cannot perform in bed. |
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| In 1793, the castle was the setting of a tragicomic event: the vanguard of the Normandy federates revolting against the Convention, marched upon Vernon to cut supplies to Paris. |
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| It is the last of these three elements, which is undergirded by a tragicomic hope, that West swings with delightful fervor and resonance. |
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| Demons, witches and fools play a tragicomic role in this work. |
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| His first novel to achieve major success was his third, Mr Perrin and Mr Traill, a tragicomic story of a fatal clash between two schoolmasters. |
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| He has delivered a tragicomic moral blowtorch worthy of Swift. |
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| I have a tragicomic vision of life, and I love to mix genres. |
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| It is that, odd as it now seems, history could one day come to regard Gordon Brown as a rather good prime minister, a much better one than he has been reckoned during his tragicomic premiership. |
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| The persistence of the Past is one of those tragicomic blessings which each new age denies, coming cocksure on to the stage to mouth its claim to a perfect novelty. |
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