Reviews by fernando

Edwards finding his style and punch. The arribist fury of Curtis is a bit washed up; but you can find something of it, maybe more in Kathryn Grant than in Cory/Curtis himself.

Guilty me to forget Jarmush. I've just seen this romantic (in a historic way becuase Marlowe and a friend of Byron are dying in Tangier), subtle, tender, amusing, very well located in Detroit, gem.

Fisher just waitng to do what he liked and in what he excelled. The imported noir style inspired him nothing. Even having Godard and good actor William Sylvester.

A poor Bava, in plot, acting and direction. Even the killings lack inspiration. Isa Miranda has some dignity, Auger none.

Burton makes classic texts sounds ok. March is the best of Hollywood school and is excellent confornting, drunken, barbaric and tongue in cheek the pretentious Burton. A pitty that the homo tones are washed up.

Charming. Loren full developed already in 1955. The sex and the music -Camerini insists in comparing the mill with a disc- of the past, senza nostalgia. De Sica is convincing since its first scene, and becomes engaged more and more.

Trepidante y ágil por gusto; porque bien establecida la idea de que una mujer trama un falso crimen para que su marido cineasta la escoja como actriz, todo debió ser más sutil e inquietante.

interesting argument (the family plot sold to a guy who hasn't one) but there´s a feeling of inachievement, of confusing solutions. Amparo Muñoz as handsome as good actress. Agatha Lys not as well.

More than nice characters taking decisions on love based on national identities, family (thats a good point, they´re are kind of blood cousins) and a liberal agitated background. (Nice to see it right after being in Barcelona. I celebrate Stillman avoiding Gaudi´s commonplaces and filming instead in architect Domenech milestones as Hospital San Pau and Palau da Musica Catalá).

Vidor is ok with the De Millean, sexy mystic (he knows how to separate and mix those concepts) idea of the film. And the redemption is more romantic than religious. The suggested orgy is ok.