Reviews by fernando

(YT) One of the best war kitchen films: command decision of men takes thier own head in hand to evaluate possible errors, fight against theris loyalties, friendships, see maps. The soliders and the tragedy is a bit apart from them...

(Mu) The light, the desire and 'regards' of the boys (mistons), the rythm of the bycicle, the fatality, everything fells graciously over Bernadette Laffont...

(OK) Hard to see why this film opens a cycle of inmensely popular films. Ith has some topical elements: the hspital of apprentices, comminf of age anatomicall referencied, but the adventures are very washed up...Kay Kendall, pretty and elegant in a seocndary role...

(OK) Rude Dwan, evreything flows unpretentiously to a, yes, this is a bit pretentious, but great end in the snow. Melodrama from a farm in finre to the snowy mountain

(OK) Excellent resume, of the longer play (the 1951 version of Pagnol himself, proofs it), more brilliant in the school part, Jouvet in the limit of caricature, Paul Pauley excellent...

(OK) Pagnol returns to his great and extrme character: a man corrupted by everything, a teacher of moral bullied and the used and flattered, an 'homme de paille' recovering his blood...

(Mu) Besides the interesting fact of having two actresses interpretating the heroine at the same time; reiterative, monochord and losing the interest and initial sympathy of both and only character...

(Mu) Modest, quiet, long Chabrol; the crime -as always and even if it is as scnadalous than a rape and killing of a little girl- is less troubling than the characters dilemma after it. Bonnaire is a serene variant comparing to Huppert cycle with Chabrol...

(Mu) Godard amuses with Leaud and pretty maif popular Chantal Goya singing anything. Macho Leaud is confronted, deconstructed, mocked, saved, privet jocked (he is general Doinel in one scen,e theres Brigitte Bardot in other, and so on)...

(OK) Freda antipating peplums and in the same time making a political film with more intrigue of power than action. The race track of 'cuadrigas' is Ben Hur Style but that is an unreachable reference; Freda is better with Gianna Maria surrounded by shields trying to escape the blind man...