Reviews by fernando

(Ok) Too much following Colette's text in the firs part, but with excellet Dellorme, you get inside the character and her defesnive rejection of Sorel's love and trying to match characters as independet as her...Sanda is not well written...

(Mu) Almodóvar es sus altos estándares, mujeres reales, intergenracionales, de pueblo y en ciudad, matan a sus agresores, trabajan, una que posa de fantasma para unas y para acompañar a la muerte...

(Mu) Good idea the suicide hotel, not so good the story build around it. Al leats it round ok in the manager's tale inside the film; not in the film itsefl

(Mu) Grows in tenderness as times passes. Francoise Fabian is moving, a rjected muse for conformist conservative kind of naive Trintignant. The end at the beach is one og the best Rohmer's....the tale resumes wonderfully

(Mu) Dixon is a good interviewer, facing Baldwin with patience and irrespect, in enough ammounts to make him explain himself ad arrogant and intellignet and black comfotably hiding in Paris as he could be

(Ok) Sexy, comic, social, black. Abou Seif goes to the bottom with his tempted studen by a vicious widow. The figure of the working mule is excellent and makes the big ending...

(MU) A little film on peeping tom's quid pro quo. Great 2 ideas/images: the voyeur hero pputting his bleeding wrists in a washing trough; and the mother looking whats happening to her son by the lens...

(MU) Putting aside the horrible but coherent photography, cold as the character, a meditation on crime and capital punishment, each as human as the other, no satanization...The victim is a creep...

(MU) De lo mejor de Almodóvar, crece con nueva visión; melodrama de amor terminal y eterno, entre romántico pervertido, enfermero voyeur y bailarina muerta en vida, replicado en otro caso sin perversión pero con amor. Y esos diálogos maravillosos donde los personajes se desgarran con naturalidad y lucidez desarmante.

(MU) Pervertion is the other side of perfectionism here. Big freaky surprises hide in schools -a conservatory here- where tutoring 'virtuosism' is the goal. Isabelle is right for that, mom Annie Girardot knows it.