Reviews by fernando

Deke Rivers a good character for a just born star. A bit washed up drama, Kanter is a poor director (Lizabeth Scott doesn't know what to do, Wendell idem) that´s why is difficult to understand double entendre between all of them and their reactions

The best of the first Presley´s. Good idea to situate him in the birth of jazz New Orleans, working in Bourbon stree to make a living between hudlums, hustlers, an d a stubborn father (Jagger) who doesn't understand Tennessee Williams

As quick and charming as "Les tribulations d'un chinois...", Belmondo suffered macho against distracted irresponsible Dorleac, good 'bad men'.

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.