“(OK) Raimu is so great that could be sympa even when leaving his little girl abandoned to die. Aimé Clariod tries to copewith him, but that's impossible.” read more
“(OK) Not aged a bit, strong in its barroquism, elegant functional set design (by Derek Jarman) and with the revulsive material of sex and religion and tortures. Reed's tragedy steals protagonism to Redgrave and the nuns stuff.” read more
“(OK) Early anti nazi film, early Alan Ladd's protagonism too, even he is expendable here. Stock stuff as always, but theré's some seconday characters with german flavor, doing the heil Hitler sign, first time in Hollywood.” read more
“(OK) Mazurky's 70s 'nomadland'. He gets the right mood in the beginning and the rest flows wonderfully, even when he visits Geraldine Fotzgerald in a retire home or when he leaves his grandoson to go to a comune. The encounter in jail with Chief Dan George, is pure Mazurky's humour...” read more
“(OK) Great storytelling in a suspension of life and death, in one in a lifetime film. Perfect plot points and two stories that adds to the end, real japanese misery and false chivalry...” read more
“(OK) Strong Losey, no nonsense depiction of a hell town, very comprehensive direction, love affair (Carey and pretty Gail) in perfect parallel with social thesis...” read more
“(OK) Nice, trepidant, good dialogues with a graps on satire. Popesco in excellent as the frivolous duchesse with a new affare that unveils her world. The gag of the love letter read in his husband speech (great André Lefaur) is excellent. Jues Berry amuses himself as always.” read more
“(OK) A sort of late Resnais film: passions narrated and doing so anothrr passion is born and burnt out amd protagonists survive. The simulation fo the marriage is a pretty anecdote..” read more
“(OK) Big Lumet, complex and choral; feminism thought in the sixties buy placed in the thirties. Good dialogues and storytelling, good cases in sepcial tragic Kay (Joanna Pettet) and Larry Hagman. This tragedy holsd the film and comes to a great ending...” read more
“(OK) Vivid melodrama, buddy film (Albers is a german hollywood hawksian character betweena womand and sea nostalgia), and sort of comedy with secondary characters...” read more
“(YT) Trepidant, impressive action concentrates in gorgeous Colorado gorge: train horses and humans and river are so well 'staged'. Great Mix vehicle” read more
“(OK) Feyder is a complete filmmaker here. The sense of location, the languid and sweaty tone, he great Francoise Rosay managing le 'grand jeu' of fate...” read more
“(OK) Becker excells in many fields: direction ( the groupal scenes with different actions) the acting (Le Vigan as Tonkin is great when becoming mad), the realis and depicitng the micrcosmos with the Goupi code...” read more
“(OK) Even in he long solo career to the wedding (less comic and flamboyant than Keaton's "Seven chances") a comedy of character, with lod evolvinf frm naif an shy and fanstasious to a guy in love, with bright moments, as the affaire near the lake with the reflection of the girls face and the turtle” read more
“(OK) A hawksian early Hawks. The essence of his code of masculinity friendshipand responsability above women is there, rambling, fighting an with tender and funny moments too.” read more
“(OK) Trepidant nervous, sordid, Melina enlightens all, in spite of not her anxiety to become a lady is not so exploited. The good ones arte to silly; but over those flaws, a powerfull film” read more
“(OK) Verbal, character comedy, 'Father of the bride' italian style pluz class difference, with a rich man (great acting) more popular than the modest one...” read more
“(OK) A bit more than a generation/friends saga around a tender funny girl (Jodt Thelen never better, never star again) and fierce Kirk Douglas' like Craig Wasson. The Isadora Duncan stuff is lovable as the fat friend irrestricted love for all his fiends.In the middle the decadence of the aristocrati” read more
“(OK) I like the cosmic figth broogut from the sciende statios to the hiperdigitalized dosctor house, his creation against Julie christie and a devoured friend, plis the I want a baby stuff. The special effects are poor...” read more
“(OK) What happened woth Egypt and its cinema? Kind of rgression of this society who could produce modenity, neorrealism, constumbrism, tragedy and crime film of moors, in one short tight film...” read more
“(OK) Modernism with a patriarchal machist way; the huge consrructions in the field and the ancesrral non love (the engineer is attached to the memory of the woman he killed in his wedding night...)...but Mauro has good atmosphere with live music” read more