Reviews by fernando

Quien ha pasado por ese techo habanero (todas las generaciones posrevolucionarias tienen ese techo confesional), entiende todo lo que aquí se juega sobre totalitarismo, brecha de libertad con el resto del mundo, autocensura, miedo, frustración.

Good story, of dilemma between love with a handsome poor italian Brooklyn and the stiff bachelor in the province. Ronan is good actress, she gains confidence as her character; but I think is too selfconscious when she couldn't be so.

Effective melodrama, Vallone is so straight about his feelings for Lualdi that he despises Tamara Lees in every scene, thats ok; but the calabrese jealousy that drives him violent till final redemption, is trite.

Put aside Goerge C. Scott chewing gum in the war room while delivering too spoofy militarist lines; this is a great, happy, brilliant, cold war satire. Strangelove monologue in how to stop worrying and think on survival confusing fuhrer and president, is the best part.

Warm, cinical, historically accurate (just in context) truffautian hommage to the theatre. The heart is not in the stage but in the cellar, with Deneuve and great Heinz Bennent.

First part is pure italian cliché, but when arrives to Russia and Loren is confronted with Marcello's new woman, everything gets better.

Conventionally subtle terror, sense of young group with split love between the guys. The isolation of 'strange people is following me' topic, explained early, is good.

The extended version allows some feeling (Paul's farewell to family, Ramsey definition of the group, Letty's recovery of memory). The flying carse are the best routine of the film. A good entrance for a 'no fan' of the series.

Good characters, with too much ups and downs that weaken the ending. Good sense of group, of family, of peculiar moods. Isabella ok. Diane Ladd a Gena Rowlands lookalike (saw it in UVK).

Great Guitry. A must for politic and diplomacy lovers. Talleyrand is modern being machiavelic because he is a republican, rethoric, intriguing, respectful of where the wind blows guy; even when he recieves Napoleon as emperor or Luis XVIII. Cinic in love and life and politics. Lana Marconi is his perfect match.