Reviews by fernando

(OK) There were so much 30s classics, that this seems one more. Too quick to contemplate the existential theme of mutants. Laughton puts just a bit of refinement...

(OK) Rare Kurosawa because of its close ups and very long intense conversation weel staged pieces, always in the winter. Snow and ice are always accompanying fire inside characters, especially Setsuko Hara...

(OK) Thank Lourcelles for pointing this as a great docufiction. It embraces and celebrates life in the plain, all accidentes are happy solved, with music, essential men dancing, horses culture; but bicycles and education also...

(OK) It flows so easily western routine excepcionally staged and filmed, with great acting: Douglas in one of his top perfomances, Trevor matches his height in some scenes. Even Jeanne Crain is ok, well the film is sexy...

(OK) Rare story, the love story, the colonial epic (medical agaisnt lepra, and engineering for the poor) , wastes the filming in location. Baur is excellent agianst a limited actor as Francen.

(OK) Pirandello's Matías Pascal is a really great story, with 3 or 4 parts or dimensions (in Monicellís non ambitious Tv adaptation are more visible), but Chenal has a guignolesque touch that makes some wonders

(OK) What a dayly fight to get food and soil: they have to finf just plain soil, earth, to pill it up and have a little place to plant something. Respect to the sea. No documentary traditional background.

(OK) Surprising Wilson doing what a good director may do with a western: all is a set up for the duel in the bg street, with a fat man and the ambiguos hero, the girl and the noble kid. The fury of Mitchum after harsh Jan Sterling tell him thier daughter is dead, is great.

(OK) Raimu is so great that could be sympa even when leaving his little girl abandoned to die. Aimé Clariod tries to copewith him, but that's impossible.

(OK) Not aged a bit, strong in its barroquism, elegant functional set design (by Derek Jarman) and with the revulsive material of sex and religion and tortures. Reed's tragedy steals protagonism to Redgrave and the nuns stuff.