Reviews by fernando

(OK) The best of Hugo's version I've seen (I say just after 1925 Fescourt silent version and it was as if everu detail gained voice and even menning) and an entire picture on french misery and justice and goodness state of mind, with the revolution in the middle. That is the best part. Harry Baur is Valjean no question, and Fantine is greater in its tragedy tan Cosette in her luck...

(OK) It gets better and better when the plot (a man with 2 wives delivering the same day) shows its richess. Dialogues, specially between Moore and Richard Mulligan are excellent...

(OK) Fernandel is excellent in first 2 thirds, bu when takes his revenge is a bit comic. Moreeau is learnning fast; he two brothers, specially Varennes are impecable. Line Moro in the med dying of pain is as good as Harriet Andersson in "Cries and whispers"...

(OK) Aesthetically astonishing, anticipation modernism on expressionism basis. The story in grandilocuent in the 'mediator' side, better in the plot to make the girl a robot that perverts men, as you see in the dance scene, one of the best in all Lang's...

(OK) Delicate alien film stablishing the genre: the little city in the desert, the sage hero who nobody believes but his girl.... and the aliens taking human hostages...

(OK) Petit chef d'ouvre, pas pour la duration mais pour le esprit.... Pagnol excells in Marseille's lycée with his wonderful sory of an ugly shy profeessor that haunts children becuase he is ahunted himself till a chritsmas night...

(OK) Choral film in huis clos clé, Von Storheim sipping and delivering in hi french peculiar sytle, here a tender man inside and out, in spite of his hidden half face; Mireille Ballin has better character than acting...

(OK) Heisler replaced Sandrich, bur there´s pure Hollywood knowhow here. Astaire dances bacuase he is either happy or sad or just have too work and always is a genius. Caulfield is not as ravishing as we expected for the character, Crosby always work...

(OK) Waste of scope and colour, or a moving offering of productios resources to a hard social topic, modernity and poor laboral conditions in a poor environment...

(OK) Masterpiece in spite or thanks to its contradictions: Keaton is so indifferent to war and evemto to love, but excells in everything, just accidentally or becuase there´s the force of genius in him...