Reviews by fernando

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?

Encanto similar a 'Nosotros los pobres' que le permite a Rodríguez sus imágenes más audaces (el Camellito pisado por el tren, el bebe carbonizado), el romance de Chachita y el Ata (rantado) cobra más fuerza y ternura. Ah, esta última es clave, es la licencia llorona del machismo

La armonía coral de la pobreza elevada a todos los altares en los que ya la puesto Monsiváis. Rodríguez es un Indio Fernández sin ideología nacionalista, pero sí un populismo más vasto...

Good directorial moments with the masses and the cannon as a character; but clichés are so corny, so disbalanced, so reducing. Kramer has to admit that he betrayed theme, and locations.

Tableau vivant, king is dying, long dies the king. Cmaera is always in some uneasy but perfect place to view it all, with intimacy, respect, no hate no false admiration to royalty. Serra, a filmmaker to follow.

Logan without music, but some rythm in acting and moods in same locatios as "South Pacific". He experiments with Walker JRnaif straight nervous everything in this charming young man.

Tim Matheson and the Reagan woman playing Nancy (are they relatives?) are passable; but dramaturgy is house of cardesque. Mmmmhhh

Even the solidariy and political Loach statement is obvious, you're moved till the end, when Daniel fights the system even when it has good faces (he is offered empoleyment when he ask for it but don't need it), when he is helped and understood but it's too late.