Reviews by fernando

Cold, simple, direct, you get into the characters in the close ups, but when they commit a crime and the frame becomes neutral.

The syrian guy is so kaurismakian, so determined when makes his eruption from the black coal an ed then takes a shower, so obsesive and serene in spite of his harsh exile of survival refugee.

Assayas can't tell anything without contrived, ultrasofisticated in functions but not in mind, stylized, pretty characters. And somehow, with mediums and an oblicuos murder, everything becomes kind of shallow.

Kind of mijalkovkian, light chejovian stuff in american Close Malkovich fashion, reunitin lovers better than forcing a relationship between a diva and a star writer. The youngsters, the family, makes thier part.

Trueba se divierte con tantos estereotipos sobre España. El y Penélope son un par de ellos. La política romantizada con un buen grupo de secundarios que hacen su desembozada parte. Jorge Sanz está muy bien soprotando a Cary Elwes, ah

(Saw in a flight to Delhi). Refuse the dowry institution is not as sexy as making a zanny plot to pay it, and then lose the girl and win it back ando so on, bollywood coreographiuc style).

The adjuster adjusts everybodies stories, as Holm in Sweet Hereafter, and his is demonically adjusted by Bubba. More weird than fasocnating, but has ots moments, its images, its metalinguistic on film clasification (censorship is not our priority says the censor).

Egoyan at its best. Holm excells as an angry mature man, trying to fix everbpody's tragedy but his with his yunki daughter. The Pied Piper morbid sardonic satirical political theme (thanks to the bonus track I read it for the first time), spreads its mystery all over.

Not much to add to my recall of Siegel's if not a provocative aura of reivindication of women against gentleman Farrell. Besides it's war, isn't it? I like the screenplay becuase it has undertones and subtleties, and at the same time, Farrell verbalizes clearly what he thinks we must think.

Harsh, sometimes ugly (the secuence with Cliff and the girls), but this is war and reactionaries above politics, as Raoul could depict them (Massey is excellent, seems a british general...well in a way he is). Why we forgot to praise Aldo bull ray?