Reviews by fernando

(OK) Wiseman and his non onterventionst style, he's absent in the register, in the spot, but present in the choice of subject and places and structure: one of the most diverse peopled disctrict in the world,faces, in all its organized communities, change...

(OK) Light french polar during occupation. Martine Carol before plastic surgery on her nose (she seems other actress¡) and nice Perier. Meurisse finding his screen persona...

(OK) Hommage to Marseille and to Pagnil, yes, the trilogy is resumed here. Could be a musical, but is classic english speaken, Boyer and Chevalier playing their clises..., Bucholz and Caron ok...

(OK) Kirsten Johnson delivers and organized anthology of her work. And it works¡ She puts her guts and life (his father Dick, next heroe of her best known film, appearse here); as Varda or Chantal Ackerman...

(YT) Straight sex and tatoo and the cost it has in love and life; specially in poor Harutsune (the laying pretty boy) becuase woman and her skin are above all...

(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.