vignettes

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Some are vignettes from Ms. Phillips’s early years, while others speak of her nomadic young adulthood, her parents’ divorce and their deaths, and her own experiences as a mother.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

These vignettes are where Gyllenhaal’s directorial eye shines the brightest, and where “The Bride!” brims with promise — just before the first of the film’s several unexplained narrative shifts.

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026

Dean's secret weapon is the incisiveness of her lyrics, which paint instantly-recognisable vignettes of love.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

For “Serious People,” Gutiérrez and Mullinkosson invoked arthouse references, such as the vignettes in the films of Swedish auteur Roy Andersson, or the surveillance feel of Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2025

It’s funny the way I remember my time in France: little vignettes, discombobulated, a narrative drifting along an ocean, a series of scenes that meant nothing until they meant something.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse