“(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
“(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
“(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
“(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
“(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
“(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
“(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
“(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
“(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
“(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
“(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
“(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
“(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
“(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
“(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
“(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
“(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
“(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
“(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
“(Mu) Mi-so carrying her 'house' to ohter friends home, is in a margin; always in the edge, even in her romance to other lazy looser. Nice character moving...” read more
“(OK) Good opportunity to see a Grimault antology, as one can see in equivalent films of Disney and Chaplin, with the bonus of Grimault talking to some of his characters, as flmed by Demy. And visited by Anouk Aimée...” read more
“(MU) Meditation, on different places (Japan, Guinea, Iceland, France) and topics, by a very wise man, Marker. Images are not gratuitous, narration and reflexion are stuck to them, but they lack order....” read more
“(Mu) Maybe this was the first film in wich I found those images. The setting (just seren travellings and shots on the ground) ant then, trying to be normal knowing its imposible, the images, the voice in off description...” read more