Reviews by fernando

(Mu) El largo preámbulo es lo mejor, lúdico, con interesantes secundarios, divertida casi caricatural escena del jurado, buenos diálogos en la fiesta del premio y en boca del autor; luego viene la divagación de tema y estilo en Berlín....

(OK) Great, colourful (even in b/w), modern picaresque, touching, unprejudiced in its approach to prejudice, vital, great secuence the collective processing of a death pig..., daring approach to seducing a young disable boy...

(Mu) Noiret is the soul of this; is an authentic prick using a masque of TV host; Rennucci es less interesting in every aspect.

(Mu) Great simple piece on the core of Silvia Plath life and death. Theatre ptimized economically by a non pretentious Akerman and two Seyrigs...

(Mu) Simple but thoughtful family drama of fahter that dissapears ruining family appearances. Quick flashbacks, the sons and wife thoughts are the theme; the absence is more important than the father. Versatile Sen...

(Mu) Zanussi's good confused stubborn insecure tender guy; fighting against corruption (that's a strong theme nicley touch), hiding in math probabilities (the end is superb) and literally and metaphorically in the edge, dreaming of the Humalaya, woandering in real Bombay...

(Mu) Subtle, long live and remote country, just some momentos and details that defines all. A short shot of main characters looking so handsome in the mirror (we don't see the mirror, we are the mirror), she touching his ankle, he grudging becuase of his unfulfilled desires...

(Mu) Semi autobiographical, they say, and its common in socialist fiml industries that the director is a egotisical prick sohowig its negotiation between liberties and censorship. The brilliant the negotiation is the brillian the results could be. Too many characters and July is so cold beong supossedly passionate...

(Usb) Berman's multilayer or multiverse, no kidding, film located in Faro, in a romantic comedy vein not bergmanian at all. Landscape fill the film where action flops and viceversa

(MU) Strange autobiography of 'young' Oliveiras in his seventies; just told visiting his stranged house, and talking to the camera, almos reading his thought on moral and religion an common sense...