Reviews by fernando

(MU) Hogg is better here than in her last "The eternal daughter"; the heroine really feels unrelated, out of context, envidious of the world she approaches becuase hers is coming apart...a holiday push to an extreme...

(MU) Simple and direct: first, the director introduces photographer's bio, then panning on great phots on the film and precise interview with straight Chas...

(MU) Bittersweet holiday with daddy. The coming of age is more his than hers. The flahsback condition is not too evidente;no problem, young Sophie is lovely with inmature daddy...

(MU) De pronto, Isaac deja la narración desprolija y la tosca alternancia con el presente y Pedro Armendáriz y el relato se ilumina y acelera desde que el niño tiene el impulso de visitar a Mariana y decirle que la ama, todo funciona a partir de allí

(MU) Lanthimos proof and error, too confusing characters filming you don't know what simulacre of fights and killings....

(MU) Technically astonishing for being a student debut (the choreograpihc movements inside the frame, are non plus ultra). Narration is weak and confusing.

(MU) Joao Pedro tends to melodrama fou here and Odete tends to be evil not wanting to. A queer look on melodrama with fatalist, masochistic, absurd, laconic ways, already developed in "O fantasma"

(OK) Anything from Gray is more than good. Not just nostalgia and coming of age, there it is an 'americana' in NY, multilayered and has a lovely secuence, with our hero and grandpa Hopkins launching a rocket before the old man's death. The friendship with the subversive afroamerican boy is touching

(MU) Bloody mixture of gore with not too exploited sadomasoquistic undertones, good rythm, better imagery, noirish characters....

(MU) Fatih Akin's debut is this goodfellas of multicultural Hamburg. The hero's dream (he's 'innocent' by oposition to his crooked friends) is his return to Turkey....that's not noir not too realistic, but the film has his interesting undertones and deviations...