Reviews by fernando

The speedy tongue in chic serial, cool sometimes, but too unrealistic and dehumanized in other parts. Ford dominatrs cast and tone.

(OK) Simenon es prodigious vein for french cinema. Decoin and screenwriter Clouzt are inspired by him. Raimu is excellent saying little and then exploding in court...

(OK) Great Ulmer with decent budget, adult story on enterprise and especulation, and an alternative brilliant cast. Greenstreet and Lucille Bremer have a n agonic match when she makes him loo at the mirror cliaiming for a younger partner...

(OK) True noir in the beginning, then a moral little town stand in the middle (reminds me of Allan Dwan´s "Angel in exile") , and noir ending. Toren is tender and hot; Mason is not so touching, but has his moments and his ways with Toren...

(OK) Oh, Guitry, such good dialogues, and versartile structure. His women are as liberated as his men, but its wonderful when one of the clochards abandons Marguerite Moreno bacause doesn´t want to lose his street freedom.

(OK) Mature melodrama with social assistance, boys abandoned to a irresponsible couple who exploits them. They steal camera to the adults and their frivolity or violence...

(OK) It takes some time to get in Ozu, because there´s an entire life pictured in the ellipsis and silence between the encounters father and son... passion is so cooled off in Ozu, but happyness is triunphant in the fishing scenes, as sadness is pictured in the boy crying in off...

(OK) Individualism in socialism, there´s an impossible equilibrium in the sympathetic character, always coming just in time, but with the perception of being late... Kind of 'Memorias del subdesarrollo' in Tbilisi...

(OK) Th observation of repetititon, the water from mainland to island, the perfecto circle of the freedom to enslave oneself, no words, no explanation, and just a social touch: the boys from the school come to the burial of one of the family two children.

(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...