“(MU) De pronto, Isaac deja la narración desprolija y la tosca alternancia con el presente y Pedro Armendáriz y el relato se ilumina y acelera desde que el niño tiene el impulso de visitar a Mariana y decirle que la ama, todo funciona a partir de allí” read more
“(MU) Technically astonishing for being a student debut (the choreograpihc movements inside the frame, are non plus ultra). Narration is weak and confusing.” read more
“(OK) Anything from Gray is more than good. Not just nostalgia and coming of age, there it is an 'americana' in NY, multilayered and has a lovely secuence, with our hero and grandpa Hopkins launching a rocket before the old man's death. The friendship with the subversive afroamerican boy is touching” read more
“(MU) Bloody mixture of gore with not too exploited sadomasoquistic undertones, good rythm, better imagery, noirish characters....” read more
“(MU) Fatih Akin's debut is this goodfellas of multicultural Hamburg. The hero's dream (he's 'innocent' by oposition to his crooked friends) is his return to Turkey....that's not noir not too realistic, but the film has his interesting undertones and deviations...” read more
“(MU) The observation of high sofisticated drugged prejudiced anguished and relaxed when partying, bichu art students, is better than the action...” read more
“(OK) One more 'morceaux de bravure', by Sang Soo, just one long scene (the retired actress confessing the director she is dying and can't make a film, getting drunk and going knowhere is worth the little film)...” read more
“(MU) 3 stars because there's a director planting his temes and obsessions, shining in some scenes (a man caressing a mannequin wth organs), using voice in off to describe -in a sort of mockumentary- processes of sex and behaviour...” read more
“(MU) Effective thriller, mixed narrative times but don't affect tension too much; the additional tension between cops and family with common objective, is credible...” read more
“(MU) I like how it goes from contemporary drama to melodrama, with excellent actress Trine Dyrholm, how she with evil naturality seduces the boy...” read more
“(MU) Wit and humour and speed and nice acting; Stillman is an underrated director. This is halfway "Liaison dangereuses" with Austen...” read more
“Too long and chaotic and arbitrary, and too little information. Its unforgivable to use clips firm all Bowie films just as vague illustration of ideas or mere transition...” read more
“(OK) Telekinesis and too fantastic powers, distorted progression for a long film; but somehow sometimes there's a sor of children "Village of the damned" feeling, til there´s a fight between good and evil childrenn” read more
“(MU) One of the best Hong Sang Soo's, b/w and nouvelle vague sprit, artsts and talentes depressed characters cassually united in one day; long dialogues worth to be followed...” read more
“(MU) Kinf of 'affected' love story of a doomed marriage between a talented girl and a macho sympathetic selfdestructive Bryan Gosling (he as convincing as Williams). The confusing sructure of mixing past and presence, contradicts its naturalism...” read more
“(MU) So delicate, adults make some philosophy on the quiet girl that has to make spontaneous choices on speaking when asked by them. Kind, subtle observations, de-dramatized but never dried of emotion....” read more
“(MU) Zanussi gets an entire new film on the edge of "Life as sexual disease..."; alternating the story og the young doctor with vocational crisis with scenes of the other film. His quest on religion and drugs is only possible in the Poland with one foot in communism and the other in a new republic..” read more
“(OK) Terror romance, "They drive by night" meets zombi films, they´re cannibals despossesed of zombi terror fantastic parafernalia. And it works and posses moral cuestions to the pair of 'heroes'....” read more
“(OK) Hogg and Swinton can film whatever they want, and slip under the story even if it's hard to imagine a filmaker so shy and nervous as Swinton yong character. The ghostly theme is covered by atmosphere , too covered...” read more
“(OK) A masterpiece made on and about Ireland, the folk theme is an alibi to amuse and shock on emotional plot points that go to extremes: a man doesn't stand his friend and even cut his fingers to avoid him, each character each punchline, is full of innuendo and simpleton philosophy. How sympathetic” read more
“(OK) Elegant existential psycho terror, with an anti or posfeminist touch (the heroine just see men harrasing her and in her extreme delirium tremens men give birth to men, good crescendo, good secondary freaks, good idea the hand divided in two...” read more
“(OK) Sara Dosa submerges in astonishing archive of the decesased couple of vulcanologists. Then emerges a great topic doccumentary on vulcans and a love story of professionals. Fascinating images of lava on the sea, grey explosions, freaky textures...” read more