Reviews by fernando

(OK) Russell attached to a story, well directed and acted, with sexploitation (the most rare is the nude wrestling between Bates and Reed, but too violent, lacks eroticism) and extravaganza.... the tragedy of two secondary lovers in the middle, and the last one, of Reed, kind of shadowed...

(OK) Long complex story, all is put in the spectacular film, but the hidden or sometimes shocking grimace smila of Veidt is at its core. Some expressionist sets look natural...

(ZW) Mizoguchi's hommage, in a way, to artists passion resolved in one tide of love and impromptu. She's is so fathfful to his master, director and dead lover that stages wonderfully her death. Excellent compositions after the necessary travellings

(OK) Simple Demy, but there's some cotidianeity charm int the middel age recreation of a plagued city with greedy, fearful or noble characters, even a depressed pilgrim. Donovan's pied piper is kind of hippie...Demy lacked of means of production to film the rats...

(OK) Thanks Lourcelles for point this strange, dreamy nightmarish comedy, with perfect Fernandel lookin for his aunties corpse in the cupboard. The scene with more than a dozen of cupboardas being driven to his appartment is wonderful.

(OK) Some shades of comedy at nazis expense. Sig Ruman kind of repeats his part in Lubitsch "To be or not to be", but the plot is lousy. Kosleck is a sexy contrived stupid nazi...

(OK) Edith Evans is the respiration of the film, she and her solitude and her whispering fantasies, and so moving detail as going to the library to warm puting her foot on a tube. The system is iirelevant for her, when obligues his exhusband to return. loneliness is better...

(YT) Powerfull, L'Herbir is elegant in his ambitions, he composes and with wonderful sets, and in the middle of humanistic view against 'la bourse' and especulation, there´s the romatic adventure of transoceanic flight...

(YT) More confusing and multiplot than the firs part, begins ok with tha bank robbery, but the historic account of the diamond and the Falkland plot is too much...

(YT) The best of the dyptic, because the inca plot dominates, and the duel of love is so dramatic and rare against the crazy adventure background.