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fernando posted a review of Irma Vep

“(Mu) Oh, Assayas amuses a lot with this parody with a neurotic director (Leaud) who abandons the film and the whim of having Maggie Cheung in the lead, and some characters behind camera are immatures and gossipy fellows...” read more

2 years, 3 months ago
fernando posted a review of A Hero

“(Mu) The false smile, as a rictus, of the main character, makes sense when the film, taking long time but never boring, advances. Farhadi doesn'y deliver all the pieces, so you have your own doubts about the character and his mystified honor, and more than that, about iranian social hypocrisy and co” read more

2 years, 3 months ago

“(MU) Me reconcilié con esta de Pedro que parecía que se ató camisa de fuerza porque el secuestro constreñía mucho, pero un momento (Victoria pidiendo que la ate por si acaso) y algunos diálogos con esa 'asertividad y franqueza que disuelve y regenera el melodrama', que lo celebra y lo supera a” read more

2 years, 3 months ago
fernando posted a review of Ashes of Time

“(Mu) Kar Wai goes with his aestetics to martial arts historical genre and he diffuminaes the clarity of the sotry, even time and identity of characters. Even so, there's tone, texture, sediments, good action secuences with stop motions and then good dialogues (all the women woth the eggs stuff and t” read more

2 years, 3 months ago
fernando posted a review of Malcolm X

“(Mu) A 'fresco', not at all a 'fiasco'. Malcolm is always marginal and fanatical, when founds his own group and become more politial centered, is too late. He planted all he received and Spike is not too worried in the final balance.... The woman has a very strong character for the 90's...” read more

2 years, 3 months ago
fernando posted a review of Trash Humpers

“(Mu) Was true the alert I read that wouldn't forget some images. More than that, set of images: the false elder freaks literally fucking everything, singing satanical lullabies, just fuckinf everything not in an erotic way....” read more

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

“(Mu) Lovably, comic, tender, unprejudiced, respectfull of dramatic unity, forget its made with an I Phone. Great metropolis LA, with so much subcultures and tribes having enough space...” read more

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

“(Mu) Classic adaptation to modern Germany of Cain's 'Postman rongs twice', with a great twist, almost a happy end. The inminent murdered, commits suicide...” read more

2 years, 3 months ago
fernando posted a review of Dream Work

“(Mu) Not the first expriment using classic films (in style not because of its importance, in any film) as a basis, and succeeding on claiming interes on it; but it goes further in seeing the decompositios of optical film itself.” read more

2 years, 3 months ago
fernando posted a review of Wendy and Lucy

“(Mu) Reichart is here the Oregon's Dardenne, but she goes in other way, she is more interested in the story, the feeling, the bond between, yeah, a young woman and his abandoned dog (is the same dog Lucy of "Old Joy"!)...” read more

2 years, 3 months ago
fernando posted a review of Gosford Park

“(Mu) Altaman in "Downtown Abbey" mood and discovery. In fact, there´s Fellowes in the script. It seems illustrative, but is the kind of Altman character and rituals observation he likes to amuse with...” read more

2 years, 3 months ago
fernando added 12 items to their collection
Old Joy

have watched

6/10

Irma Vep

have watched

7/10

A Hero

have watched

7/10

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

have watched

8/10

Ashes of Time

have watched

6/10


2 years, 3 months ago

“(Mu) Strong in despite of being systematic experimental: secuence shots of some infinished stories, or resumed stories, some of them are a of a filming...Binoche is excellent in difficult scenes, as the one in the metro...” read more

2 years, 4 months ago
fernando posted a review of Belle

“(Alcazar) Forget the intro, forget the standard faces and stupid reiterative expressions for everything; forget the fanstastic story combining 'belle and bete', a world in internet, fights with dragons thar are friends, bullying and child abuse; there's a nice 'message', unveil your web false identi” read more

2 years, 4 months ago
fernando posted a review of Cool Hand Luke

“(DVD) Luke/Newman says in a way to the prison guards, don't punish me, I'll punish myself and then I'll folly escpae no matter I knos you will catch me; and he suffers even for fun, eating 50 eggs and posing as Christ, and that awakens solidarity form other prisoners...” read more

2 years, 4 months ago
fernando posted a review of 24 City (2008)

“(Mu) Dcomuentaris delight; each story each setting is wonderfully worked, as if doesn´t matter if its fiction or real. Ante generations of a city and of a country are interwoven...versatile Jia” read more

2 years, 4 months ago
fernando added 4 items to their collection
Code Unknown: Incomplete Tales of Several Journeys

have watched

8/10

Belle

have watched

6/10

Cool Hand Luke

have watched

7/10

24 City (2008)

7/10


2 years, 4 months ago
fernando posted a review of The Recorder Exam

“(Mu) Sensitive girl with harsh but not bad parents, suffering enough for a flute exam, and passes it, and what else? Natural dramatization and un-dramatization...” read more

2 years, 4 months ago
fernando posted a review of Donnie Darko

“(Mu) A new lost Lynch, cult deserved little great film, so cute young Gyllenhal, so terrorific americana, a school that is a world itself...” read more

2 years, 4 months ago
fernando posted a review of Heat

“(Mu) Nos just the great actors, but the characters are so moving in his friendly meeting in the middle of confrontation. The rest is a tragic choir elongued with excellent action stuff...” read more

2 years, 4 months ago
fernando posted a review of Break of Day

“(Ok) Too much following Colette's text in the firs part, but with excellet Dellorme, you get inside the character and her defesnive rejection of Sorel's love and trying to match characters as independet as her...Sanda is not well written...” read more

2 years, 4 months ago
fernando posted a review of Volver

“(Mu) Almodóvar es sus altos estándares, mujeres reales, intergenracionales, de pueblo y en ciudad, matan a sus agresores, trabajan, una que posa de fantasma para unas y para acompañar a la muerte...” read more

2 years, 4 months ago
fernando posted a review of Taipei Suicide Story

“(Mu) Good idea the suicide hotel, not so good the story build around it. Al leats it round ok in the manager's tale inside the film; not in the film itsefl” read more

2 years, 4 months ago
fernando posted a review of My Night at Maud's

“(Mu) Grows in tenderness as times passes. Francoise Fabian is moving, a rjected muse for conformist conservative kind of naive Trintignant. The end at the beach is one og the best Rohmer's....the tale resumes wonderfully” read more

2 years, 4 months ago
fernando posted a review of Meeting the Man

“(Mu) Dixon is a good interviewer, facing Baldwin with patience and irrespect, in enough ammounts to make him explain himself ad arrogant and intellignet and black comfotably hiding in Paris as he could be” read more

2 years, 4 months ago
fernando posted a review of Shabab emraa

“(Ok) Sexy, comic, social, black. Abou Seif goes to the bottom with his tempted studen by a vicious widow. The figure of the working mule is excellent and makes the big ending...” read more

2 years, 4 months ago

“(MU) A little film on peeping tom's quid pro quo. Great 2 ideas/images: the voyeur hero pputting his bleeding wrists in a washing trough; and the mother looking whats happening to her son by the lens...” read more

2 years, 4 months ago

“(MU) Putting aside the horrible but coherent photography, cold as the character, a meditation on crime and capital punishment, each as human as the other, no satanization...The victim is a creep...” read more

2 years, 4 months ago
fernando posted a review of Talk to Her

“(MU) De lo mejor de Almodóvar, crece con nueva visión; melodrama de amor terminal y eterno, entre romántico pervertido, enfermero voyeur y bailarina muerta en vida, replicado en otro caso sin perversión pero con amor. Y esos diálogos maravillosos donde los personajes se desgarran con naturalida” read more

2 years, 4 months ago
fernando posted a review of The Piano Teacher

“(MU) Pervertion is the other side of perfectionism here. Big freaky surprises hide in schools -a conservatory here- where tutoring 'virtuosism' is the goal. Isabelle is right for that, mom Annie Girardot knows it.” read more

2 years, 4 months ago