“(MU) Nice comedy, good illuminating moment n the 'cevennes' (the script finds the way to explain the Stevenson in the Cevennes with a donkey story) , good twists in one of those magic french vacations; there´s Marie Riviere to remember 'le rayon vert' sprit...” read more
“(OK) Great story, subversion from the last of prisons, the undefined mental hospital, where people is so 'worked on' that they destroy their will to be free, haunting them with their complexes as Brad Dourif or with lobotomy as Nicholson...” read more
“(OK) War almost comedy, the tragic ending and the closeness of war, doesn't allow other options. Zampa sustains a long sequence in paroxism, ioth the german and the afroamerican in an alcoholic spree...” read more
“(Mu) Sembene announcing the splendour of "La noire de...": good rythm, short direct narration, voice in off intensifying character...” read more
“(MU) Grande Rejtman, sus personajes solo pueden ser suyos, tan ordinarios en lo que saben , tan extraordinarios en lo que les pasa y en su instinto de sobrevivir en el margen sin saberlo. Son subversivos naif, yonkis inconfesos ('mi depresión es emocional u orgánica?) y niegan lo evidente con tal ” read more
“(OK) Sauf the 'aaaaa eeee, iiii' song sang by Trintitignant and wofe Bouix; not so lelouchian as others. Its not a humanity in dnanger pice, but a thirller of pacifist impostation....Rampling and Piccoli, good pair...” read more
“(MU) Touching, ironic, tragic in the end, poetic in the narration in off, maybe too hard on the french woman (the man is 'pardoned') personalizing her injustice instead of depicting a general problem of identity...” read more
“(Mu) Cult bizarre film, too funny to be a rock opera, too well produced in backgruond and gadgets to not be taken in some seriousness; the spirit of manga and Hollywood spoofs, all mixed...” read more
“(OK) So charming, colourfull (Sidney is MGM musical splendour) when Presley and Danova visit many shows looking for Margret. Ann is wonderfull, a great star whor arrived late to the musical and had to work in another kind of films...” read more
“(OK) So elegant, bien fait, great acting by them all, specially by Berry as le diable meme. Decors are irreal, dreamlike secuences are fascinant inside the irreaism predominant...” read more
“(OK) Amazing filming in natural locatios, the avalanche with the girl locked in a chapel is great, as the boy in the river saved by the new mother. There´s no good and evil, just boys trying to understand the world and each other...” read more
“(MU) Desplechin takes Roth in episodes, moments of love and distress between Pdalydes and lovable Seydoux, but with lot of evasions. He loses the point ans interest, but has ncie scenes as the trial and the moments with the sick friend” read more
“(OK) La tendresse has a special meaning and special uses in this Berri. Simon is the grandfahter ypu would like to hug. Harmony is perfecto with secrets and lies...” read more
“(OK) The terror I love: idiots plots to the minimum, people gathering and not dispersing against a very identified monsters, effective narration, effective dialogues, famil ties mixed with the confrotation of evil...” read more
“(MU) Last Rohmer tale is so alike the comedy and proverbs; a firned trying to organizes other's lives, and making a big fuss instead, with happy ending. Nice seeing Ribiere and Romand, as (in)mature mothers...” read more
“(OK) Rogowsky represses his sensuality and allows she andt the, 3 bastards, exert theirs in a ceiling that is a frontier, more forntier than the colour poor scenes...” read more
“(OK) When Guitry after the masterpiece "Le poison" and before the amusing farewell "Trois font la paire", hadn't to demostrate nothing, he introduces the story, Simon conducts it with his double humour and surprises and experiments with a violent, almost fantastic but realistically executed decision” read more
“(MU) Toledano has made a specialty on handicapped and it works, easily, sans extremes, knowing and caring. Cassel and Kateb act comprehensively, sans histrionics...” read more
“(OK) Forget the lasta stalinist propaganda stuff, and there is 'my universities' Donskoi with his poetry of earth and little villages peopled by tender brutes...” read more
“(OK) More than a thriller,more than any other Losey, a great pursuit in the coldest way, a man going deep on his posibilities, so intirgued by whtay he could be used for, that the curiosity throws him to the train of death...” read more