Reviews by fernando

(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...

(OK) Amazing, so violent and explicit (severed limps goes on a basket, you feel the noise of the saw) the life of a nurse in the China/Japan late 30s war. Devastation of background and intimate recalls of a woman that feels responsible for the death of people she cares,...

(OK) Richardson tries new moods, new sort of natural characters (wonderful Rita), actress casted against type (Dora Bryan is excellent), and new sort of characters (openly gay Murray Melvin), and plays wonderfully with them in natural sets...

(OK) Just point that Dassin made his debut and Veodt is excellent in dual role and feelings. The plot is infested with the excited americanism that make an hero of any man, even a migrant that -don't know why- has to pay for his brother...

(OK) Forbes and Attenborough has the audacity and naivete, as in the story, to tell in a false straightforward way (the boys are not doubtfull, are easy believers) this confusin of Bates with Jesus...

(OK) Pagnol takes too much time, but is a harsh naturalistic look in old patriarchy, beated by mixed loyalties (Fernandel's one), love (Albin's) and call of life the takes Orane to Marseille. Was moved by Fernandel arriving to Marseille train station and long staircase that looks the same as today.

(OK) Simple, plain, little gen by Dwan. Film noir in the high sierra where a Torilla Flat ind of town is colindant to a mine where John Carroll plans a sophisticated racket. Nice to see Thomas Gomnez in a noble support...