Reviews by fernando

(OK) Surprise from jewish polish pre war cinema, etereal tragic romantic fantasy, touches of terror, depicting the greedy counting money , the vague elusive rabines...

(OK) Late silent (1934), with the sobriety of a talkie, great tragic actress Ruan Ling-Yu (commited suicide a year after), never overacts, she acts straight till the pure melodrama of the end

(OK) Elegant, sober and adult for being a child fantastic adventure in a school. Von Stroheim es a big boy in a way, bullied by an always amazing Michel Simon...

(OK) Good plot, the isolated community, an island of the end of France, sans pretre, and a good man convinced to take his place, honestly, beliavable...

(OK) It trascends academicism and conventional love story; Philippe and his impulsive naivete, his noblesse whan thinks in the husband and makes Micheline write to him, the undestatements between them...

(OK) Siodmak had rythm and energy here, a rare fantastic musical, naif, dinamique. The theatre as lodging place to the troupé is nice idea...

(OK) Such clean effective classicism, protagonist are not aware of the great momentso they're living, no one is too good or bad (the best is the 2nd fat officer, the relcxiams his honour in a duel)...

(OK) Forget the beginning, and began the cursed nightmaris deviation, with a peak whan wonderful Ann Savage, recriminares Neal for killing the owner of the car... then the scenes in the hotel of the pair are unforgivable...

(OK) Christian-Jaque and Barrault have some passionate strong momentos as the stopping of the batle waving the red cross flag to cross the river; the Castiglione hospital; and the delicate scenes with the silent lovers...

(OK) Apart from the two equal competents roles by Butterfly Wu (excellent close ups in one, frivolous acting in the other); some primitive melodramatization with characters explaining in medium shots...