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fernando posted a review of Friends and Strangers

“(MU) It flows as a Guillaume Brac film, but is less structured, less rohmerian, or seems so. The director likes a character and stays with him till find another...what a elusive looser the hero...” read more

2 years, 5 months ago
fernando posted a review of A Room in Town (1982)

“(OK) After Les Parapluis and Demoiselles, I stand for this. Demy just tries to put in words and lyrics (there's not a nice tune, a pitty) ugly themes, fatal love, decadence, strike, undesired pregnancy... Sanda is excelletn and sexy just with a coat...” read more

2 years, 5 months ago

“(OK) Very good material, behind scenes, documentary not finished by Varda, explanatuos, interviews, details, an escellent bonus for Demy's classic, taking advantage of its celebration in Rochefort...” read more

2 years, 5 months ago
fernando posted a review of Joyless Street

“(YT) Literally raw in its better theme ans scenes (the butcher, the poverty line and the ladies), expressionims meeting socioal conscious realism. Garbo, slim and beauty, ready for Hollywood. Asta Nielsen hieratic, excellent...” read more

2 years, 5 months ago
fernando posted a review of Nightcap

“(MU) Pure Chabrol, tight. classic, suspensefull, excellent Huppert (better when being bitchy), noir and melodrama tones, some moments of bravado,” read more

2 years, 5 months ago
fernando posted a review of Maelstrom

“(OK) Early 'drole' Villeneuve, philosoficas, fishes talking and the heroine becoming devastated by guilt and then redeemed with love. Without becoming heavy or too stylized...” read more

2 years, 5 months ago
fernando added 16 items to their collection
In the Mood for Love

have watched

8/10

Donkey Skin

have watched

7/10

Safety Last!

have watched

8/10

Saddle Tramp

have watched

7/10

Los Huesos

have watched

8/10


2 years, 5 months ago
fernando posted a review of The Humans

“(USB) Hard to take, almost real time spend with a family in thanksgiving day dinner, there's sadness and revelations, and some joy, rituals and detaisl where you fell the family stuff... The apartment and its cracks are part of the humans...” read more

2 years, 5 months ago
fernando posted a review of Last Night in Soho

“(USB) Lousy. Too many elements: nostalgia of 60s, fashion, music, terror, thriller, all mixed up and lost...” read more

2 years, 5 months ago
fernando posted a review of Benedetta

“(USB) Great story, a kind of "The devils" of 2021, as much gore as depiction of fanatism. Somehow Verhoeven swap styles, from comic like medieval fantasies, to and action movie. But the story remains with its deep dilemmas...” read more

2 years, 5 months ago
fernando posted a review of Belfast

“(USB) A film and a place (in fact one street and one family) with a heart. The wasn't brilliant till Branagh rounds it wih the dilemma of leaving or staying in a lousy atmosphere of protestant violent fanatism. The boy is he heart of the heattfull story and makes tha laghs when says to mom: 'its bio” read more

2 years, 5 months ago
fernando posted a review of Street of Shame

“(OK) Mizoguchi simplifies too much or gets the best of each story, each character? Both. Whores are everything but strange characters here, are as fragile and as pracical and as moral as they could be in her business in where the body is a kind of safe box.” read more

2 years, 5 months ago
fernando posted a review of The Power of the Dog

“(NX) Best of these times, welcome again Jane Campion. The ambiguity, ellipses, mysteries, second thoughts, seduction between two characters not opposed as you may think, but complemented. The young boy is the knew Benedict, able to go where he was restrained to go, blame it to the mythical Bronco Ha” read more

2 years, 5 months ago
fernando posted a review of Passing

“(NX) Yeah, b/w is trendy, but the film has its own paused, serene style. The false white friend is a more reflexive add to de coloured family of the protagonist than a shock. And she is moving....” read more

2 years, 5 months ago
fernando posted a review of House of Gucci

“(Alcazar) Scott ammuses with the cast. All of them, sauf Pacino, has the burden of trying to be italian, that´s a bit annoying. Poduction values, in special set desing and properties of Gucci are excellent (even Mauicio remains as an non explained character, her obsessive wife is more developed, an” read more

2 years, 5 months ago
fernando posted a review of Annette

“(MU) The Sparks and Carax, are a perverted trio in this one. There's a fantastic romantic dimension, nos so classical or vintage in musical cinema standards, going for non typical themes (Annette is a kind of doll, her delivery with a pretty choral song, tha death of Marion in the yacht) ans the tou” read more

2 years, 5 months ago
fernando posted a review of The Street (1923)

“(YT) Maybe more enthusiasm than talent, bt there's tue rupture of drama and style, the wild call of the metropolitan street, with all its temptaions and joys, that is appealing, bye kameraschafdt...” read more

2 years, 5 months ago
fernando added 9 items to their collection
The Humans

have watched

6/10

Last Night in Soho

have watched

4/10

Benedetta

have watched

7/10

Belfast

have watched

7/10

Street of Shame

have watched

9/10


2 years, 5 months ago
fernando posted a review of Spencer

“(USB) D coming to pieces, before I don' know what happenes to her because Larrain and producers think we all are too informe of her, or part of a fan club of Diana. The caracterization with tics and unsufferable voice...” read more

2 years, 5 months ago
fernando posted a review of CODA

“(OK) Original theme (child of deaf family) but trite narrative. The result is so efficient and appealing, that screenplay and director Helder even relagates romance...” read more

2 years, 5 months ago
fernando posted a review of King Richard

“(USB) The one and only champion, but here with a family coda, there's father plan, good sister, relegaes mother, trainers, race, some colectivization not pretentious, of the champion stuff” read more

2 years, 5 months ago
fernando posted a review of Cry Macho (2021)

“(USB) 'The mule' is ok because have sme moral comments on time and age and border, bettween; but this is a regression full of clises and corny stuff with idiot mexicans...” read more

2 years, 5 months ago
fernando posted a review of Dune

“(USB) Just part one, with enough time to forget so many tribes and concentrate on Timothée coming of age and surviving in the desert, father dying; Vullenueve reaches some core in the sand” read more

2 years, 5 months ago
fernando posted a review of Moss Rose

“(OK) Great story, noir with social ambition as a plus. Cummins works and Mature, well, his wide back resist critics. Barrymore is convincing even in her caricatural ending...” read more

2 years, 5 months ago
fernando posted a review of Live Flesh

“(OK) Un relojito de almodovarismo, melodrama puro con arrebatos de pasión, perosnajes que se explica y hasta dicen lo que no hicieron, incecencia e ingenuidad con eficacia total; el héroe es un hijo del transporte de Madrid, la ciudad y muchas cosas habitan en él...” read more

2 years, 5 months ago

“(MU) Texture, tone, fantasy, Tilda 'mu son is a monser' Swinton, satanic handsome Ezra Miller, a happily distracted faher, real rotten spanish tomatoes...” read more

2 years, 5 months ago
fernando posted a review of tick, tick... BOOM!

“(NX) A musical in progress, a professional autobiography, that is as ineresting as frustrating. The HIV early nineties stuff, the essays, the one and only who can win, those topics are more american than universal...I wann see "Rent"” read more

2 years, 5 months ago
fernando posted a review of The White Rose (1923)

“(OK) Fuck Griffith social and moral observation, he'll always be late in that; the romantic and melodramatic mood with the glorious articulo mortis wedding, that the film..” read more

2 years, 5 months ago

“(MU) More 'simply bad' than 'film maudit', but who can resist such a cast? Varda must've felt guilty to have such great people doing nonsente (¡Denueve and De Niro improvising an idiot scene, Moreau and Schygulla looking each other trying to do something, Belmondo and Lollobrigida in lousy cameos, ” read more

2 years, 5 months ago
fernando posted a review of A King in New York

“(MU) Gorgeous restauration. Chaplin as a royal witness of America's materialism ans lack of nobility, not in the monarchial way but in the humna. Just see his sober silent expression when he realizes the boy has benn blalckmailed to accuse his parents comrades...” read more

2 years, 5 months ago