Reviews by fernando

(OK) Rare, very much interesting renoirbecause of its perverse subject, noir for a blind painter and for a sick young veteran, Ryan, in love with a not so bad Bennett...

(OK) Everything is neat, modern, visonary, intense and pure action here. There's even a love story, a greed sotry and those spy thirllers loved by Lang...The first countdown I recall...

(OK) Late chinese silent with the divine Ruan Lingyu; melodrama with a modern touch, but a traditional fatal end, as if the rebellion of these woman couldn't be complete or succesfull...the aversion of sex rendition is over the need of saving a daughters life¡

(OK) "What ever happened to Baby Jane" meets "Les parapluies de Cherbourg" in affected, plain b/w, women stuff....

(OK) They have all the shme and hate against each other; men are so secondary here. The catarsis at the end is a rare piece of caotic action in Mizoguchi.

(OK) ¿Qué tiene el cine de Portugal que produce cineastas exquisitos, abstrusos, grandes estetas de la culposa reflexión poscolonial como Oliveira o Costa? Aquí, un viejo caboverdino (ocasión para una sola interrupción musical) ve la puesta en escena cuartelaria clínica de fábrica abandonada de una culpa relativa en la muerte de un colega...

(OK) Lourcelles says this is an expression on the long vein of 'realism of mediocrity' in british cinema, yeah. If that´s so Ivonne Mitchell is a diva of it, and Quayle a good companion. The radio music is a noisy good touch...

(OK) Vive Pagnol, vive Raimu, vive le peuple. The collectiv scenes around the impasse of Raimu, his wife and 'le berger' (an 'imbecile' for the repentant wife) , are unique in films, maybe they anticipate, in a way, "The quiet man". Dialofues are great ant the final touch with the return of the cat Pomponette is the hand of god...

(OK) Simple, neat, but with an interesting twist, 'l'inconnue' Eve gracis changes opinion and advises the young mother to abandon child and husband, good touch...

(OK) Maybe the great intuition of Lang here is playing all the argument to a dream/nightmare; deceiving some expectations...well, Bennett relfected in the window is a dream....