“(OK) Oh Nelly, this is your "Viridiana" in a little hut and in an entire town. Bernadette is excellent in her amorality and her collection of money and garbage, so unapprehensive that can be blown sans pitié” read more
“(OK) Good vein or subgenre these half biopics (because they picture one moment or aspect) of polemic 60s heroes as Fred Hampton; in htis case in rapport with his traitor who doesn't feel too much of a traitor in the end...” read more
“(OK) A long, pretty well produced kind of 'dodo' animal story; but its progression, the beuaty of space and knowledge of nature, the soft obsession is ok...” read more
“(YT) Cottafavi is bright in the heavy melodramatic moments, heightening Maria Denis pace and feeling, hi sson sacrifice, the quick wedding, Lourcelles says it is liturgic...” read more
“(OK) Great war film of the losers: the 'retraite' of japanese army in Phillipines is a sort of zombi saga, where everybody is in the edge (sick, or depressed, or dead in life, waiting to eat his companion, wandering through life and death, looking as one skeleton to other skeleton...)” read more
“(OK) Douglas is good in strong moments, Cagney is in his sauce in them, even crying. Alcohol is men stuff, romanticism is outside of this, and as boring as Phyllis Taxter...” read more
“(OK) The characters are less interesting and achieved, than the multi meaningful relation between them. I includes showing his feelings, good for director Ree whose camera is always there.” read more
“(OK) Lovely, tender and somehow hard story on those women between houswifes and whores, bout above thar culural heritage of Japan (as is said in the documentary aspect of this so neat and short but rich and complex film). Excelletns moments, purse Mizoguchi in the rigth place and distance for the ac” read more
“(OK) Strong character in the edge (translating for UN while her family could die), so believable, so leveled with close ups and cold depictios of horror (tha massacre in the theatre 'you'll see the picture' tells the killers)...” read more
“(OK) Too manipulating, stupidly extreme, coryn, forced romantically, bullyexploitation chinese film...” read more
“(OK) As cold as the character, but then, gradually, with tha massacre as plot point, you get on her shoes; ant the reconstruction gets actuality and irony (Stalin mst be bach claims the fool woman)....” read more
“(NX) So discursive, selfconsious impossible to shut down characters, she is too intelligent till comes his turn, one of those don'tknowwhyblack&white films of the year...” read more
“(OK) Metalinguistic Duvuvier, amusing with 2 screewriters deciding the curse of a story with Dany Robin, Auclair (by far, the best of the trio) , the boyfriend and ravissante Hildegarde Neff...” read more
“(OK) I was surprised by Dreville in "Les affaires sond des affaires", big theme big ideas easy taken, and here his wit is confirmed. Alfred Adam character, the first evil and dirty then tragic and almost moving 'pendu', is the best,more than Vanel...” read more
“(OK) A 'groundhog day' in a Palm Sprong weekend wedding background, less 'realist', more funny and bizarre, with a romantic coda...” read more
“(OK) 3 stars not for film, but for the play and its lesson on history, personal and collective narrative;good themes condensed in some songs (the woman reinvindication a man's legacy, 'the room where it happened, treasons, alliances), a good play no doubt...” read more
“(OK) The plot is common, almost cheap, bur the background is well staged, the trip through Texas, the pauses, the secondary characters are rich...” read more
“(OK) Interesting director Devaivre. In "La dame des onze heures" is bizarre and funny, here emphatic and poignant, depicting abuse, mistrust, infidelity, details of an elocuent killed man in 1800 ...” read more
“(OK) The abused,predictable plot of the coach trying to get back to life after losing a son and going alcoholic, and so an so, and his team wins....” read more
“(OK) Tries with much effort to build its amosphere, dialogues are to selfconscious with cinicism of old policemen going after a deadlier than hell serial killer... Denzel Washington as torn out as his character” read more
“(OK) Surprising debut, always a good theme the religious fanatism in the edge of horror and fantasy; but following the main character (Morfydd Clark, good girl) in her lonuleness , lows and heights, is the best...” read more