Reviews by fernando

¿Why success spoiled Giorgos Lanthimos? Artificial, incoherent, confusing, it is not a convincing world as in "Canino"; the stars are wasted. I preferred the unknowns -for non greeks- stars of his first films.

OK Haynes, you make the films with the topics we couldn't find explicitly in the 50s. But here you lack the intensity of "Far from heaven". Its some low key dramatism that I find somehow deceiving

Melodrama simple, prejuicioso con coartada originaria (Pedro viene del campo y es muy muy macho), pero con fuerza y encanto en close ups de Pedro, que está intachable hasta de payaso (un motivo clásico) y Marga que es como una Irene Dunne de Churubusco. Silvia Pinal está espléndida, es lo mejor de la pela.

Bardem suele ser provocador pero aquí es meramente efectista. El semental Stokes confundido con serial killer por Seberg y Marisol (que está linda de veras); es a la vez una confusión de giallo con terror erótico.

In spite of terrible make up and acting of the entire cast when aged in the present; Duvivier is ok using Hollywood set design and glossy movments for his 'bal' scenes. Oberon ok, but Cotten better. May Oliver has the best part and dialogues.

Nice cast, strong relation between excelllent Heflin and Delon, Margret is really ok (lost minded in the asphalt waiting for a phone call), Palance overacting as always.

Besides the joyous play of identifying stars; poor spy plot with enough killings to justify the progressive reduction of the cast. Rita's character is pathetic as I suppose she was then.

Heavy and solemn stuff civil war is in filosophical cinic Cotten's voice in off; but romance between Gardner and Bograde has some 'fou' quality.

Trepidant, never loosens action, with romance fou and 'bromance' (passionate touches between father and sons Bulba), drinking as a cossack mood, superficial but ¡what a rithm!

Lousy all star movie. Great Holden (he has a nice death in the helicopter), tongue in cheek Harrison, Ustinov having fun