Reviews by fernando

In the tradition of Pialat and Dumont, but more sentimental and 'a la fois' religious. There´s even a discreet miracle when tha protagonist is saved in the mountain.

Bonita imagen y locaciones, Bardot haciendo sus oportunos y dramáticos strips, Vadim desarrollando un estilo; el plot es lo de menos...

Grieve, boring melodrama, with a vague plot of husband that comes from death, abstract abnegation, old values on men who naturally love war, plastic surgery that chanes all and nothing...

When Otto tried to be a new Wilder or Lubitsch before going right with "Laura". Too stagey. Berle is ok, Bennet is better...

Good first part (realistic in mexican border, and specially the jail), but the affair Borgnine/Katy Jurado is a bit corny, even she is impecable. Interesting Ermhardt and his Sidney Greenstreet look.

When Wellman knows hi is making omething special, and hast o be natural and honest and moving. Each close up or medium shot of a woman is a moving portrait. This film must be used in genre/gender studies...

Toruneur is always enjoyable even this film has some flaws (the bank assault is so boring), but McCrea is old and honest in his approach to Vera Miles, and men of the press and bussinessmen have some common sense...

Parolini (aka Frank Kramer) tries a choreography of shots, form the sexy bold Brynner; but his manierism is as pestilent as his cahracters, and so empty of feelings (at least you simpoatize with the priest and the boy, mmmmhhh)...

So great Wellman, a huis clos over a wide space, spiralized to an abandones town, and a unique gunfight inside an abandoned saloon where you see just details and results. Love it.

Gets better in the third view. Stevens cares a lot in relaistic details (with the excpetion of fights, but the alibi is that they're viewed through the eyes of the romantic child), and the one street one side town is exemplary of that...