Reviews by fernando

(OK) All began in a italoamerican misunderstanding: that Mangano can dance Mambo. In Lattuada's "Anna" was just a bizarre sequence functional to the star and character, here is lousy. The twists of the character are so unexplained, her perosnal quest so vague...

(YT) La exposición fria, y delicada, elegante, de una historia criminal filosófica demente. Bioy Casares (pudo ser Borges) pone la inspiración para que Leopoldo papá guíe a Leopoldo hijo en su debut...

(OK) Effective love story with melodramatic touches but most of all the push or arribism in Gere and Winger and their couple of sidekicks. Hackford has punch...

(OK) Relatively 'stagey' Hitch, 3D or not. Crime is as explained as in Rope, with suspense and twists, thats ok; and from the windoy there's an intuition Rear window that came next..

(OK) Soft nice ethnic 'costumbrism' with passion and anti passion. Cher is stunning as Cage in one of his best (then his filomography becomes lousy). Gardenia is excellent

(OK) The spirit of a new society, the cooperativism of artistry, makes his own comic world, disrupted by evil Jules Berry posing as a priest..

(OK) Good Simon dialogues, the best are said by the 'kid' Lucy, Mason and Dreyfus have some reiterative matches but all resumes well in an open ending...

(OK) Carlos Saura, López Vásquez y su España de niño, el juego de presente y pasado es insistente, mecánico, pero funciona muy bien. Saura estuvo muy inspirado acá, y tiene sutilezas junto a genialidades como la monja mortificada...

(OK) Baroque, bizarre, powerfull, protomythical, criwtianity meets paganism, a long but straight distance from 1913 Cabiria. In the core of it romance and melodrama...

(OK) A bit boring, but such character study and finesse in a maisntream film is not so common: Hurt is a not an acciental and no a tourist, is a man reluctant to life, more than a snob, and Murial/Geena Davis is an excellent motif