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fernando posted a review of Merry-Go-Round

“(Mu) Rovette indulges too much in himselg, and its too long for a poor stoyr; but some interesting touches of characters confronted with elusive truth revelaed in chinese boxes..Maria and Joe as cat and mouse is interesting” read more

2 years, 2 months ago
fernando posted a review of When We Were Bullies

“(Usb) Good them, but short of drama, there´s not even trace of the victim, and just the memories of bullies by phone, is not enough...” read more

2 years, 2 months ago
fernando posted a review of Nightmare Alley

“(Usb) Baroque and not brilliant, tha first part in the circus exceeds in some characters, and then things add to a climx wth 4 characters, but the tycoon is too Kane style, Blanchett is too stereotyped femme fatale...Roony Mara is the new Jean Simmons, she deserved better scenes...” read more

2 years, 2 months ago
fernando added 6 items to their collection
The Windshield Wiper

have watched

8/10

The Queen of Basketball

have watched

5/10

Life Is a Bed of Roses

have watched

7/10

Merry-Go-Round

have watched

6/10

When We Were Bullies

have watched

5/10


2 years, 2 months ago
fernando posted a review of Lead Me Home

“(Usb) Homeless interviewed in an office and showed in its habitat. There´s no contemplation or field observation, but caring ans well informed approach...” read more

2 years, 2 months ago
fernando posted a review of BoksBalet

“(usb) Contrast between big hard boxer and thinf ballet dancer is so graphically enhanced, that there´s the heart of the film...” read more

2 years, 2 months ago
fernando posted a review of Audible

“(Usb) Moving, direction doesn't have to emphasize nothing, the deaf rugby community is frontal and self conscious, unprejudiced in race and sex; but they are sol vulnerable when remenbering dead Teddy...” read more

2 years, 2 months ago
fernando posted a review of Ascension

“(usb) Lovably images of industrial more human than machine processes, but you miss the focus, the great grandfather poem of vageu ascension can't explain son many themes in China. I catch a CEO telling that his enterprise goal is to conquer intenral market that is 5 times smaller than the USA...” read more

2 years, 2 months ago
fernando posted a review of Ala kachuu

“(usb) Oscar nominares. Doesn´t add too much to the universal remanent drama of cultures in woch women are rapted and killed in spirit. This one runs...” read more

2 years, 2 months ago
fernando posted a review of Affairs of the Art

“(Usb) Oscar nominarted New Yorker style tale of a life and routine viewed in graphic excess. Funny body expressionism...” read more

2 years, 2 months ago
fernando posted a review of The Beautiful Prisoner

“(Mu) Magritte meets Dracula and James Bond; Robbe Grillet is a bit amusing and linear in this detective dreamy surrealist sexy tale...” read more

2 years, 2 months ago

“(Mu) Neorrealismo a lo Pedro, brutos, sucios pero no feos, porque no puede dejar de haber feeling homoerótico y humor cachondo (notable la escena de Maura y Forqué con el exhicionista). Maura es el corazón de la pela y esta ubicua, subversiva, espléndida...” read more

2 years, 2 months ago
fernando posted a review of Pont de Varsòvia

“(Mu) El largo preámbulo es lo mejor, lúdico, con interesantes secundarios, divertida casi caricatural escena del jurado, buenos diálogos en la fiesta del premio y en boca del autor; luego viene la divagación de tema y estilo en Berlín....” read more

2 years, 2 months ago

“(OK) Great, colourful (even in b/w), modern picaresque, touching, unprejudiced in its approach to prejudice, vital, great secuence the collective processing of a death pig..., daring approach to seducing a young disable boy...” read more

2 years, 2 months ago
fernando posted a review of Masks

“(Mu) Noiret is the soul of this; is an authentic prick using a masque of TV host; Rennucci es less interesting in every aspect.” read more

2 years, 2 months ago
fernando posted a review of Letters Home

“(Mu) Great simple piece on the core of Silvia Plath life and death. Theatre ptimized economically by a non pretentious Akerman and two Seyrigs...” read more

2 years, 2 months ago
fernando posted a review of Ek Din Achanak

“(Mu) Simple but thoughtful family drama of fahter that dissapears ruining family appearances. Quick flashbacks, the sons and wife thoughts are the theme; the absence is more important than the father. Versatile Sen...” read more

2 years, 2 months ago
fernando added 13 items to their collection
Lead Me Home

have watched

6/10

BoksBalet

have watched

6/10

Audible

have watched

7/10

Ascension

have watched

6/10

Ala kachuu

have watched

5/10


2 years, 2 months ago
fernando posted a review of Constans

“(Mu) Zanussi's good confused stubborn insecure tender guy; fighting against corruption (that's a strong theme nicley touch), hiding in math probabilities (the end is superb) and literally and metaphorically in the edge, dreaming of the Humalaya, woandering in real Bombay...” read more

2 years, 2 months ago
fernando posted a review of Chocolat

“(Mu) Subtle, long live and remote country, just some momentos and details that defines all. A short shot of main characters looking so handsome in the mirror (we don't see the mirror, we are the mirror), she touching his ankle, he grudging becuase of his unfulfilled desires...” read more

2 years, 2 months ago
fernando posted a review of Diary for My Lovers

“(Mu) Semi autobiographical, they say, and its common in socialist fiml industries that the director is a egotisical prick sohowig its negotiation between liberties and censorship. The brilliant the negotiation is the brillian the results could be. Too many characters and July is so cold beong suposs” read more

2 years, 2 months ago
fernando posted a review of Bergman Island

“(Usb) Berman's multilayer or multiverse, no kidding, film located in Faro, in a romantic comedy vein not bergmanian at all. Landscape fill the film where action flops and viceversa” read more

2 years, 2 months ago
fernando added 4 items to their collection
Constans

have watched

8/10

Chocolat

have watched

7/10

Diary for My Lovers

have watched

6/10

Bergman Island

7/10


2 years, 2 months ago

“(MU) Strange autobiography of 'young' Oliveiras in his seventies; just told visiting his stranged house, and talking to the camera, almos reading his thought on moral and religion an common sense...” read more

2 years, 2 months ago
fernando posted a review of Full Moon in Paris

“(Mu) Pascale Ogier character is all: affirmative, audacious, experimental, loving, caring, egotistical, impossible with his boyfriend, so tolerant with Octave (Lucchini); moving when loses his love for wanting everything at a time. Moralist in a playful degree” read more

2 years, 2 months ago

“(Mu) Great Resnais, neat and experimental, effective, moving, playfull, theoretical in Laborit's explanation of characters in each story. Depardieu is dramatic almost tragic in his suicide attempt, Nicole is passionate...” read more

2 years, 2 months ago
fernando posted a review of Scarface (1932)

“(OK) Maybe Hawk's first masterpiece, he redefines gangster film with as much intention as action; some scenes and ideas are dated (as Raft´s coin), but characters are always moving, specially Ann Dvoray and yeah Raft...Muni is startling” read more

2 years, 2 months ago
fernando posted a review of No End

“(Mu) A ghost of a man as great beginning, a story that reusmes recent history of Poland (as Wajda's films, specially 'Sin anestesia'), a liberated but too hunted by guilt woman, a stubborn political prisoner, al old doubtful lawyer...” read more

2 years, 2 months ago
fernando posted a review of The Aviator's Wife

“(Mu) Rohmer´s esental ordinary naive self conscious characters. The 'seductrice' and the seduced boy, the women liberated and confused, even as young as the detective girl. Long conversations in wich story advances as much as in long action in the streets...” read more

2 years, 2 months ago
fernando posted a review of Memoria

“(usb) More slow than long, its not comtemplative but mindful ans loosely evocative, evasive in a way; character stuck in no land for her memory of a sound, first looking for it with professional aidance in Bogota, then finding a memory fellow in the forest...” read more

2 years, 2 months ago