Reviews by fernando

The worst Asquith. Loren is more than ok but Sellers is depressed (you can't believe Loren is after him), De Sica is stereotipical.

Great story, well understood, well narrated in a eliptical way. If it weren't so 'froid' and 'academic' in its direction (in spite of a good Lange performance, superior to Olsen and Isaac)....

The romantic touch has aged, but the exposition when Garfield runs (the best actor to be haunted by the police ant the bad luck) and finds Shelley in the pool is great.

More soul than body when Palmer loves Garfield. Body and soul in superb dosis when Garfield attacks and reacts. I love this.

Absolutely pioneer in its attitude ans theme, as harsh as lyric, Garfield so moirish that becomes white heat. Dialogues to write an essay on.

Good late noir. A lot less sophisticated than "To have and have not" but it has the Hemingway sea touch. Garfield is always convincing, as a good man in love with his Thaxter wife. It semms that infidelity is worse than homicide. The last image of the little afro boy is rare and devastating.

Wise at his most happily pretentious. Jazz is perfect for the atmosphere (Belafonte performs a nice calypso-blues). Good timing, tension, the escape to the newyork hinterland, good false plantings (Ryan playing with the little afro girl before we know his racism), Belafonte tender touches. Shellye and Gloria Grahame, good beaten noir femmes.

Very good story, the reverse migration, but poor edition and long flawless exposition with litle Gus in an small world you won't see again. Let's see what Disney or Pixar could do with it.

Eurowestern with a nice script (!Phillip Yordan¡) and a lousy spanish director trying to be comercially obedient and wise. Lollo seems to dominate them all in the paper but her character is poor.

Nanni in the middle between his autobiographical and his portraits of big characters at the edge. Here is brother of the 'regista', dealing with a impossible Hollywood character and the agonizing mother in dreams and reality.