Reviews by fernando

(OK) Strange almost episodic (the prison of diverse characters, the sabotage act, the nazis asking for takinf hostages, the liberation planned from England)ressistance film, not so focused on organized heroism, but in facts and characters, as the coward andt the 'demissionaries'...

(OK) The first Carné is everything Carné, sauf a narrative disorder. Rosay is wonderful even in the end when isntead os a typical sucide, there´s an ironic remark about 'Jenny', the happy place...Barrault as Dromedaire amuses a lot

(OK) Grat, each situation, perfectly mounted in a character film with social echo, is so rich: the hommage to the old communist, the wedding that has to be moved form the building, the heroine censoring something that is already approved...a tender ridicule for this disciplined obsessive woman who loses a child and, we don´ti know if the sense of it all

(OK) Romantic saga, most for the theme scope (college, politica, war, media, Hollywood, maccarthism) than time and secondary characters. Delicate, sincere, unsolved...

(OK) In a way is a common peplum, but Harryhausen makes a feast with the stone colossus and most of all with the eagle men; and seen from the clouds and the olympus, there´s another dimension..

(OK) The extended version is historical enough, not to lose the glorious battle, the defetat and the agonic new triunphant attack. Bergman is always convincing most of all when she prays. Ferrer in a prick by noir standards

(OK) Glorious technicolor un the sand carpet. Silent films ans "Morocco" and french legionnaires films, established already the romantic desert

(OK) The silent Ozu was all he wasn't with dialogues: light hearted, camera moving, funny, a bit romantic, even gesticulting...

(OK) Ichikawa anticipates "Look who's talking", but no so light, there's comments on modern society,60s fashion...

(OK) Not as bad as "La fin du monde" but, after a tense good trench drama with the last night of a patrol, Gance losts in pacifist grandilocuence with Francen shouting and accusin mankind. The horror fantastic finale is quite something.