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“(OK) Russell attached to a story, well directed and acted, with sexploitation (the most rare is the nude wrestling between Bates and Reed, but too violent, lacks eroticism) and extravaganza.... the tragedy of two secondary lovers in the middle, and the last one, of Reed, kind of shadowed...” read more
“(OK) Long complex story, all is put in the spectacular film, but the hidden or sometimes shocking grimace smila of Veidt is at its core. Some expressionist sets look natural...” read more
“(ZW) Mizoguchi's hommage, in a way, to artists passion resolved in one tide of love and impromptu. She's is so fathfful to his master, director and dead lover that stages wonderfully her death. Excellent compositions after the necessary travellings” read more
“(OK) Simple Demy, but there's some cotidianeity charm int the middel age recreation of a plagued city with greedy, fearful or noble characters, even a depressed pilgrim. Donovan's pied piper is kind of hippie...Demy lacked of means of production to film the rats...” read more
“(OK) Thanks Lourcelles for point this strange, dreamy nightmarish comedy, with perfect Fernandel lookin for his aunties corpse in the cupboard. The scene with more than a dozen of cupboardas being driven to his appartment is wonderful.” read more
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“(OK) Some shades of comedy at nazis expense. Sig Ruman kind of repeats his part in Lubitsch "To be or not to be", but the plot is lousy. Kosleck is a sexy contrived stupid nazi...” read more
“(OK) Edith Evans is the respiration of the film, she and her solitude and her whispering fantasies, and so moving detail as going to the library to warm puting her foot on a tube. The system is iirelevant for her, when obligues his exhusband to return. loneliness is better...” read more
“(YT) More confusing and multiplot than the firs part, begins ok with tha bank robbery, but the historic account of the diamond and the Falkland plot is too much...” read more
“(YT) The best of the dyptic, because the inca plot dominates, and the duel of love is so dramatic and rare against the crazy adventure background.” read more
“(OK) Farrow has some fordian virtues when depicting men in war. Bendix is, here, his McLaglen. He and Preston are the heart of the film, really comic and brave.” read more
“(OK) Full of charm, complicity (the Mills and Boulting), and soft satire of gossipy prejudiced community. Not angry youn people, but temporarily uneased happily reconciled with life and sex...” read more
“(OK) Little gem, tongue in chic, with an author inside the film, Lugosi jailes with a gorilla and having the assitnace of Minerva Urecal, a pity the serial killer part is too short...” read more
“(OK) More clean, dramatic, and same time, has an almost comic anecdote of Apu married with an unknown bride... Apu has a grear dramatic trouble, is a good man who fights with his sense of loss and responsability... and urban and rural backgrounds are so well connected/contrasted”” read more
“(OK) More clean, dramatic, and same time, has an almost comic anecdote of Apu married with an unknown bride... Apu has a grear dramatic trouble, is a good man who fights with his sense of loss and responsability... and urban and rural backgrounds are so well connected/contrasted” read more
“(YT) Since my first view I loved one simple scene, less than scena, a detail, in which the agonizing grandmother throws the remaining water over a little plant. She, dry and curved, worries about that simple thing. Therés a sense of loss of past and future in Ray's trilogy, beginning here” read more
“(OK) Besides the great imagination conceptualization of labour force mechanized in scale, before Chaplin's "Modern times", is not too much. The clochard end has some charm” read more
“(OK) Good Forbes, this is a good and credible thriller because, he makes wonder with Kim Stanley crazyness and Attemborough lack of autorithy. That marriage is tha cause of tragedy, and psychic background is so natural...” read more
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“(YT) Chines suprise. The melange of melodrama and comedy is charming, even with sad songs, and joyfull, playfull moments with the bunch of losers the heroine befriend. But the whore sister, always dressed in black, has the ominous fate of melodrama...” read more
“(OK) Bresson begins in high form, sans style mais avec un grand theme: les dialogues et interactions of condemned nuns, they form jail to convent and back, with pathos and twists. Yhe mystery of sanctity remains intact in the case of Anne Marie (Renée Faure) and Therese, in the end making a kind of” read more
“(ZW) Schlesinger takes his time, his details, to get to the doubts and mixed feelings of he and she, and society in the voice of a discreet (sauf the mother in law) choir...” read more
“(OK) Manole de Oliveira, and innocent no exactly a preneorrelist, but an explorer in the world of infant chivalry with Porto's background...” read more
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“(OK) rare musicla on psichic and extrasensorial and reincarnation stuff, but without choreography, stucked in two or three spaces (wasted Brabra's roof),slow in the middle...” read more
“(OK) Amazing, so violent and explicit (severed limps goes on a basket, you feel the noise of the saw) the life of a nurse in the China/Japan late 30s war. Devastation of background and intimate recalls of a woman that feels responsible for the death of people she cares,...” read more
“(OK) Richardson tries new moods, new sort of natural characters (wonderful Rita), actress casted against type (Dora Bryan is excellent), and new sort of characters (openly gay Murray Melvin), and plays wonderfully with them in natural sets...” read more
“(OK) Just point that Dassin made his debut and Veodt is excellent in dual role and feelings. The plot is infested with the excited americanism that make an hero of any man, even a migrant that -don't know why- has to pay for his brother...” read more