Reviews by fernando

(OK) Aparajito is a perfect scale, Varanasi and the polluted Ganges, to explain how Apu begins his way to Calcutta, in spite of her mother, so contrived character in Pather Panchali...

(OK) More clean, dramatic, and same time, has an almost comic anecdote of Apu married with an unknown bride... Apu has a grear dramatic trouble, is a good man who fights with his sense of loss and responsability... and urban and rural backgrounds are so well connected/contrasted

(YT) Since my first view I loved one simple scene, less than scena, a detail, in which the agonizing grandmother throws the remaining water over a little plant. She, dry and curved, worries about that simple thing. Therés a sense of loss of past and future in Ray's trilogy, beginning here

(OK) Besides the great imagination conceptualization of labour force mechanized in scale, before Chaplin's "Modern times", is not too much. The clochard end has some charm

(OK) Good Forbes, this is a good and credible thriller because, he makes wonder with Kim Stanley crazyness and Attemborough lack of autorithy. That marriage is tha cause of tragedy, and psychic background is so natural...

(YT) Chines suprise. The melange of melodrama and comedy is charming, even with sad songs, and joyfull, playfull moments with the bunch of losers the heroine befriend. But the whore sister, always dressed in black, has the ominous fate of melodrama...

(OK) Bresson begins in high form, sans style mais avec un grand theme: les dialogues et interactions of condemned nuns, they form jail to convent and back, with pathos and twists. Yhe mystery of sanctity remains intact in the case of Anne Marie (Renée Faure) and Therese, in the end making a kind of cross with her hands to be handcuffed (I thought Pasolini was the first to have that idea in "Accatone", but Bresson was first)...

(ZW) Schlesinger takes his time, his details, to get to the doubts and mixed feelings of he and she, and society in the voice of a discreet (sauf the mother in law) choir...

(OK) Manole de Oliveira, and innocent no exactly a preneorrelist, but an explorer in the world of infant chivalry with Porto's background...

(OK) rare musicla on psichic and extrasensorial and reincarnation stuff, but without choreography, stucked in two or three spaces (wasted Brabra's roof),slow in the middle...