Reviews by fernando

(Mu) Big debut for Bengal. Has all: Rural erotism, critci to feudal India, melodrama, contrats of generations and rich and poors. Shaban Azmi is wonderful in her naiveté, sumitting sexually to her patron, carign for his deaf husband, and, at the end, cursing..'You are cursed by the poor people', she shouts...

(Mu) Why Martha makes me as angry as her central character? The heroine is unsufferable as other Meszaros heroines, because she doesn't share her truth with everybody, even when supposedly is being honest...

(Mu) Lavardin/Poiret is too central here, not just the cop, but the old flame of Lafont and the one who solves the crime, covering the assasin girl who killed in self defense. The intrigue of the not dead father i weak. But Chabrol and Poiret don't loose the flair

(Mu) Lavardin enters when the story and toned is setted, but is fantastic pressing handsome Lucas, who is the real hero of the film, in spite of his psycho mother Stephane Audran. Small french cities are perfect for polar...

(OK) First complete Sirk melodrama, music as one of the themes, some mystic and painfull scenes, some emphasis in angles, boy most of all a good narration in spite of two and three times story...

(OK) Musis and easy romance in a mix of Spapin and Arabia, with russians in Hllywood marine style. Donlevy is spirited and Eve Arden is funny, becuase Ivonne is a lousy dancer and Aumont is a big smile and not the handsome star he could be...

(usb) Pretty thoughts an images, with syncopated speed,on 'mediated' lonelyliness, even suicide; and love findings...

(Usb) Lucia narrtaes her story in nice tone, but there´s no other voice, not even the director. Not even a question about her controversila decission of abandoning her career and the meaning it had for fight against racism...

(Mu) Great cast in an exhuberant multilayer (two historic moments and a operatic one) , 'drole', comic, with some tragic touches in the past....nice background the seminar... Ardant is so mature here...

(Mu) Rovette indulges too much in himselg, and its too long for a poor stoyr; but some interesting touches of characters confronted with elusive truth revelaed in chinese boxes..Maria and Joe as cat and mouse is interesting