Reviews by fernando

(OK) More director than plot. Mulligan depicts in excellent real location tha controlled chaos of teachin in a poor NY environment. The suicide of a girl is jusr one great touch, instead of the episodic ones...

(OK) Spike lee never closer to Tarantino than in this, His 'inglorious black bastards' have bulshit alibis to retrieve gold in Vietnam, the maddest has a poetic death, in the jungle, after talking in close up to the camera...

(OK) A straight with excellent lanscape locations, agonic without underlining it, woth a good twist of characters (the captain dies, the soft character takes hi splace and triumphs)...

(OK) No reference to a known mythology but in b/W here are the textures, the detritus, the noises and smog of tarkovsky and other incursions on modern decadence. The featus is unforgettable...

(OK) Nolanesque affected pure action false philosophy of future conspirating in present with Kenneth Branagh as the villain with more character than the protagonist. Clemence Poesy is chic model...

(NX) Film for film history lovers; most is play fot those who know, even the best secuence, with Dolce Vita's touches (Mank and Marion Davies near a fountain) and a nocturnal zoo in the background , demmands to know location and chatracters. in the same location. Hearst tell Mank the fable of the monkey, that's a nice touch that levels the elegy on Mank. No judgement on Welles, justa an important character in the reality, not mucho in the film...

(NX) Oh, Sophia, you better rest. She wasn't in condition to play this for love to her child Ponti. Bari as locaton is the best of the film...

(OK) Good script, ice construction of action and trial, ups and downs of lot of colourful characters, including Sacha Baron...

(OK) Ron Howard never fails in feeling, don't ask more; but there´s a nice enphasis on clasism, on reivindication of hillbllyism agisnt Yale lay sudents anf firms...

(OK) Thanks Lourcelles to point this surprising, gentle, kind, melodrama of an unresolved love by Rossi and Francey, with deep echos, and moving rendered songs...