Reviews by fernando

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.

Uneasy but fluent thanks to good delivery by Leaud and Wiazemsky and Tognazzi. The nazi background and the pig theme, ends ok with tha narration, by Ninetto, of what happened to Leaud.

The song in the beginning expresses the tender, playfull, enjoyable, mystic, franciscan naif, spirit of the film. Toto and Ninetto moving/dancing as sparrows is a must.

The real story in all its triumph enhances the film, if you're used to the uneasiness of french naturalistic movies on antisocial students. Ascaride is ok looking as a natural actress.

Austere Franju, unknown actors, but great story. Great hateful character, the intolerant priest. The middle part, sexuality and fatality, is a bit washed; but priest Huster in the town, praying when heirs fight over their dead aunt, or embracing the statue of the virgin are ok.

Sick film, sick direction; Wheatley erases sexuality and focus on violence even gratuitous. The ending conduces to a big mess instead of a depuration. Weak feminine characters and confusing leading character Laing.