Reviews by fernando

Hubiera quedado en díptico, con "Ustedes los ricos". Pero los Rodríguez quisieron exprimir la saga, dejaron la mayor tragedia en off para justificar la muerte real de Blanca Estela Pavón y le dieron a Infante una cualidad fantástica sin tratarla como tal: todo le sale mal.

The film is as aged as Bette. Lacks rythm, action, passion. The crime and the motifs are so cold and unexplained, the second characters are so useless and wasted, Malden for instance.

Mejor que su precuela "Un rincón cerca del cielo". Grandes bloques narrativos, con Infante asciendo en fortuna y desgraciándose a pesar de la abnegación de Marga y de su amigo millonario Tony. Interpreta bien a José Alfredo en la cantina.

A world apart for Elizabeth Harman. She lacks fury, because she has just one breakdown and is too strong for resist the humiliations. Winters is so convincing in such a oprobious role, that she deserved her oscar.

Kind of funny to see the private sponsors of the film after explaining that it hasn't received state sponsorship (OAS, Odebrecht, Camargo Correa and so on). It is hagiographic and has moments of doubt, but just strategic and political doubts (to strike or not to strike this moment), not moral

If I have to pick just one scene is Malden praying in the whole/hell; vertical stuff os ascension after descending to the social hell. The sky remains the roof with the pigeons.

Once in a lifetime, Marlon. Is excellent, the mood, tha landscape with waves and the sea, the house near the town, the actors, the plot inside the themes of vengenace and search of identity and refusar of a father figure.

So effective, The evolution of the danish nationalist brute to a tender fahterly man is corny, I know, but the theme as violent as abstract and schematic of the cleaning of a mined camp is too good...

The precise testimonies for knowing and maybe understanding Mapplethorpe: sis, little bro, colleagues and friends that doesn't save us what they think of the man's arribism and oportunism and using people, and a picture of gay sex life before the plague

Good point, well explained and repeated and analized in its historic evolution: mass incarceration black oriented, in a way is a continuation of slavery. But they don't explore, don't even discuss a contestative theory: You do need to have punishment and prisons, ¿don't you? And there are also white prisononers, don't they?