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“(Mu) A world of themes and more than themes: fantasy, daly life, a city, intimis, futball and cinema, summer, poetry.... When the narrator tells that the horoine had been told by 3 things (a plant, a camera, the wind) of a spell, then she and he chane looks; whnen boys see a ball in the sky (the onl” read more

3 years, 3 months ago
fernando posted a review of Daguerreotypes

“(Mu) Vard just in her neighborhood, where the stores and its tennants are the stars. 'Bread, milk, butter, are the stars' she says when filming people buying in a grocery store. The magician stuff is an excelletn happening to structure the film...” read more

3 years, 3 months ago
fernando posted a review of Vagabond

“(Mu) Maybe, the best Varda. Bonnaire is so marginal that camps in winter; but each of her staings is a commitment with she doesn't know what. The 'enquete' style doesn't bother too much; each Bonnaire secuence is above all...” read more

3 years, 3 months ago
fernando posted a review of Le nouveau

“(Mu) Happy bullying if it is possible. Or revenge of the nerds with so many differences between them, from just being 'le nouveau' to disability...” read more

3 years, 3 months ago
fernando posted a review of Taste of Cherry (1997)

“(Mu) Few strong elements, the perfect location (round unpaved roads with the city in tha brackground) and a man not looking for suicide but for a helping hand, the right ellypses and intensities...” read more

3 years, 3 months ago
fernando posted a review of Titane

“(Usb) Every sequence ends with gore or pain or self destruction, that's tiring. But there are themes and material and madness and stronger characters than the heroine (the father and his working boys, are great stuff)...” read more

3 years, 3 months ago
fernando posted a review of The Lost Daughter

“(Nx) A character film in a greek island, with strong dramatic foundations ('i'm an unnatural moher' tells Colman to Dakota Jonson when confessing she stole the doll that has her daughter devastated) . The woerd becomes normal in the island...” read more

3 years, 3 months ago
fernando posted a review of I'm Your Man

“(Usb) Romantic comedy with robot. Science doesn't matter, just prejudice and character (she's a cold pro longing to have a baby) and that's why this is so light...” read more

3 years, 3 months ago
fernando posted a review of She's Funny That Way

“(Mu) Just saw it before Bogdanovich death. So light, so happy, so classic (but with the interview doccumentary comic style); Bogdy prefers theatre than film background as Hawkas in the 30s....” read more

3 years, 3 months ago
fernando posted a review of Flee

“(Usb) Good use of animation and doccumentary for telling a real testimony, where victim shame is as strong as tragedy of his people...” read more

3 years, 3 months ago

“(Alcázar) Ebough stars for the NY visuals, including the Liberty statue. The multiverse stuff is not interesting for metafisic reasons but for the ocasion of casting 3 spider me, including Tobey Maguire...” read more

3 years, 3 months ago
fernando added 14 items to their collection
The Turning Table

have watched

6/10

Sans Soleil (1983)

have watched

7/10

Night and Fog (1955)

have watched

9/10

What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?

have watched

7/10

Daguerreotypes

have watched

7/10


3 years, 3 months ago
fernando posted a review of The Music Room (1958)

“(OK) One of the best films about decadence, great location the palce and the music room, and the ritualized music and consuming of it, the oppostion with the non noble blood neighbour, the tragedy of the lord in so complex...” read more

3 years, 3 months ago
fernando posted a review of Sorry We Missed You

“(Mu) Loach's always refreshing; this is as good as 'I Daniel Blake', is another kind of death. a head of family with children and a working wife that has the best moment (in dialogue and ating) facing by phone tha master dog of the heroe's work...” read more

3 years, 3 months ago
fernando posted a review of Lust, Caution

“(Mu) Ang Lee takes its time to plant the story, too clasicaal and cold in comparison to his best films; its hard to believe there´s more love than hate in the relationship, but there´s a point...” read more

3 years, 3 months ago
fernando posted a review of The Eyes of Tammy Faye

“(USB) Great character, saved from preacher Jim Bakker's falldown. A bit washed up, Tammy es nos as conservative as Jim regarding women ans LGTB and 80's AIDS...although some of her dilemmas are exposed” read more

3 years, 3 months ago
fernando added 4 items to their collection
The Music Room (1958)

have watched

9/10

Sorry We Missed You

have watched

7/10

Lust, Caution

have watched

7/10

The Eyes of Tammy Faye

6/10


3 years, 3 months ago
fernando posted a review of The Salamander

“(Yt) Tanner, Tanner...a style, a world of anarchic leftist tender characters, naif in much ways, here involved and surpassed by a girl they inestigate to make a story. The character comens to he author and slips in his bed....” read more

3 years, 3 months ago

“(Usb) A stupid, intransigent, bad perosn as any other. She is loved. adored, by a great man woth whom she doesn't wann have a child, she cheats him, and then hurts a nice young man... posfeminism indagation a girl without prejudices and ambition...” read more

3 years, 3 months ago
fernando added 3 items to their collection
The Salamander

have watched

7/10

The Worst Person in the World

have watched

7/10

Life Itself

6/10


3 years, 3 months ago
fernando posted a review of Life Itself

“(Mu) Movies are not the theme; it is the enthusiasm of living thanks to words and immages. Ebert even congratulates James to film a 'suction' in his body in horrible close up. Y prefer the Siskel & Ebert analisis by friends and Siskel's widow.” read more

3 years, 3 months ago
fernando posted a review of Salut les Cubains

“(Mu) I doubt if Varda would've made this just from still photos, if weren't for the success of Marker and "La jeteé". There´s everybody, from Fidel to Benny Moré and Wilfredo Lam, but just in photos....Anyway, is interesting to hear the hommage in words...” read more

3 years, 3 months ago
fernando posted a review of Lamb

“(OK) Good script, founded on mytery and sense of non said drama in the firt half; then everything in the open, even tha most fantastic and tender details of the human little lamb... a kind of rejection (or refraction) of rural happiness...” read more

3 years, 3 months ago
fernando posted a review of Don't Look Up

“(Nx) McKay is good in hight tones and here has variation on a classic story (the comet smashing ig not deviated and in fact not deviated on time for Mark Rylance (great supporting composition) purposes...” read more

3 years, 3 months ago
fernando posted a review of Black Panthers

“(Mu) Agens was there, was sympathetic to the cause, and interviewed the leaders, even Huey Newton in prison. Kind of 'I salut les black tanthers' as she made Salut les cubains in 1963....” read more

3 years, 3 months ago
fernando posted a review of Hive

“(Usb) Non gubernamental office film, too schematic to make the point of woman empowerment...the heroine doesn't stumbles...” read more

3 years, 3 months ago
fernando posted a review of Drive My Car

“(Usb) Hamagushi is a good storyteller, as his feminine character; somehow style is nos synchronized with it, main character has to resume things that wasn't so clear, but is clear that he is looking for clues and redemption, and has to move in the car for it. Just one objection: too much rests on Un” read more

3 years, 3 months ago
fernando added 6 items to their collection
Salut les Cubains

have watched

6/10

Lamb

have watched

7/10

Don

have watched

7/10

Black Panthers

have watched

6/10

Hive

have watched

5/10


3 years, 3 months ago
fernando posted a review of C'mon C'mon

“(USB) Honest characters, and the nephew lonely uncle stuff is not so abused in movies, but real boring, with its gratuitous black and white, nothing solved...” read more

3 years, 3 months ago
fernando posted a review of Being the Ricardos

“(USB) Sauf the sitcom dialogue (too neurotic and selfonscious), a well structured tale, based in real life, of love between stars, Lucy an Desi being too conservative, prejudice against Desi and inside him, communist paranoia...” read more

3 years, 3 months ago