Reviews by fernando

The character is better than the film, it looses too much inexplaining a lot of roundaabouts, instead of stretching the story and intensifying its best moments.

More than I expected. There's elegance, sense of decadence being constraint, romanticism build up with some subtlety in expense of the political background, perverse undertones (incestuous guilt between Ava and Sharif), and some fantasy in the ballet as seen by Deneuve and Sharif.

Corny to say the least. Chastain acts as shw wants to, adding a whimsical sexy/froid look that makes me laugh sometimes. A washed up great war drama with too shy animals.

I love this so much, this is Les enfants du paradis (Granger and parker are actors, remember) meets MGM's Hollywood, with a grand chorepgraphic finale. Yes, an unexpected masterpiece by George Sidney and by a big studio.

Modest charm, light french antirevolutionary story (noblemen and thier descendants as Curtis and Miller are heroes against polices that seems monarchic)...

Huston's western balad. Lily Langtry is poetry for Judge and we undesrstand it as we see Ava. The non extreme violent elegant mexican friendly Huston is at his best.

I like that it is not ambitious, Losey doesn't portray a definite Trotsky or Mercader, they're are impredictable, non conformist, a bit fatalist but unsure of what to do. Schneider is a poor passionate woman.

Goodbye Duvivier, it's a tongue in cheek misterious non ambitious sexy plot (Senta is sexiest than ever, Delon is cute and mature).

De Mille contributing a bit late to war effort. He identifies with a doctor maybe because he is difficult to identify with an obedient GI Joe. The exotism is kept as a non invasive background.

Kind of funny how easy is to put hard themes as segregation and terrorism, because they are in far Kenya and terrorist are blacks from mau mau. Poitier is really good crying in most of his scenes. Hudson is a non crying white.