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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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 months ago
fernando posted a review of Parallel Mothers

“(Usb) Gran Almodovar, summa teológica de su sinceridad y sertividad melodramática, con solución activa, más la historia de espala en una fosa revelada, las familias y amores alternativos, la maternidad asumida y no pero nunca culpable, Penelope más allá desí misma, eterna...” read more

2 years, 3 months ago
fernando posted a review of Terrorizers

“(Mu) The stories take too much time to intertwin, characters take too much tiem to react after everything is staged; when they finally do, there's some depition of corrosive irresponsability...” read more

2 years, 3 months ago
fernando posted a review of The Tragedy of Macbeth

“(Usb) Great b/w solutions; specially the choir of witches, almost inside of Macbeth´s castle. Two way story, Lady Macbeths progressing influence, and then Macbeth's prodessive madness....” read more

2 years, 3 months ago
fernando added 10 items to their collection
Visita ou Memórias e Confissões

have watched

6/10

Full Moon in Paris

have watched

8/10

Mon oncle d

have watched

8/10

Scarface (1932)

have watched

9/10

No End

have watched

8/10


2 years, 3 months ago
fernando posted a review of The Green Ray

“(Mu) The grainy 16mm, the improvisation, the wandering in and out frim Paris, the derpession of the heroine till she becomes an active seducer, the epiphany of a real green ray at the end. Biarritz and Saint Jean de Luz, is everything...” read more

2 years, 3 months ago

“(OK) Agnes remembers Demy once more, film by film but not cronologically. Not only Demy seaks but Picolli, Deneuve, Moreau, Sanda et al. Nice...” read more

2 years, 3 months ago
fernando posted a review of Mass

“(Usb) Big theme, parents of a psycho murderer and parents of one of his victims remembering and helaing wounds, but dialogues are too neat and reiterative, it begins and ends well...” read more

2 years, 3 months ago
fernando added 3 items to their collection
The Green Ray

have watched

8/10

The Universe of Jacques Demy

have watched

6/10

Mass

6/10


2 years, 3 months ago
fernando posted a review of Compartment No. 6

“(Usb) A finnish lesbian find the russian soul in a long train trip to artic Murmansk: that fantastoc passionate impossible boy appears as a heavy angel in special moments, he is more than the mystified petroglifs she want's to see...” read more

2 years, 3 months ago