Reviews by fernando

Sexy Loren misplaced in recent born Israel; forcin a plot for her vengeance, with the hagana calculating every emotional twist on her. Mmmhhh.

Wise wise; resting in women until men come back from war. It was difficult to be really adult in late 50s, so he froces contrart between restrictive Fontaine and rebel without a cause Laurie, after being married to Wally Cassell.

So delicate romantic fatalism. A sad but not painful story as Claudia says in present tense before the flashback. She really loves Bube, in spite of her apparently free spirit.

Those enciclopedic old men don't onow 'it' and 'it' is 'it', those volcanic understated force in Hollywood, thanks to Hays code. Billy and Lubitsh, and Hawks directing a Billy & Brackett screenplay here; are the best in 'it'.

Efectism, ocassional hitchcockianism with Kerr as very british suspicioos wife. Cooper somwhat lost in king arthur´s court.

De Mille reflects -in his non theroical antireflexive way- on why mvoies are not in a way and yes they are in a way, a 3 ring circus.

Impeccable dialogue, acting tour de force, twisted emotions with characters always feeling guilty and unsecure after their outburts, unpredictability. A personal rediscoyery.

Tavernier goes firmly and secure (Simenon moral thriller) but not too ambitious in his first film. Lyon has a forced character on its own.

3 stars just for wierdness, becuase characters are uniformly too stupid and stereotyped. The Mirando/Monsanto stuff versus animalists/white terrorists is good stuff.

The early sound provides interesting realism, sexy pre code, above the machista plot. Poor Dorothy Burgess, betraying Baxter