Reviews by fernando

I love it. Tough, intelligent, funny, but not too harsh on fat Henry. Vivid support roles (Lanchaster is excellent negotiaiting his marriage), everybody is dignified in the last moment, and that includes Henry, of course. Wonderful scenes in the sweatty kitchen, as a prelude for the best Laughton monologues.

Aged, as most spy films of 60s and 70s. But Winner afirms character in action, specially in Lancaster cat amd mouse routine with Delon. Burt and alain are too smart, and chiefs are too stupid.

One can trace here the modern rotten cop thriller, in the sexy toughness of Cochrane. Ida is an exciting actress bur is too old for a Gloria Grahame character. Duff is ok and doesn´t bother his real liaison with Ida.

Pure Wes. More a tour to his tastes than a tour to India. The humour is traced in the laconic expression and contradictory behavior of the 3 bros., speciallly Jason, real Wes buddy.

Long paced because of landscape, of 'grandeur' and not just because of narrative choice. Wayne is natural and ok, but not in the 'arenga'. The bad ones are better: !surprise: Tyrone Power has a strong character father!.

I like the dirty imperfect director´s cut. It takes time, for Ferrara and for the espectator, to get inside Depardieu. Firts part is almost descriptive of the scandal; but then, discussing with Bisset (there´s a sort of impro in the acting and some texts), and int the final secen with the hispanic girl, yoo can have a taste pf why Devereaux is what he is. A pity, the script had to restrain form some details in order to avoid the explicit realtion with the real scandal.

Ritt visits Paris with old cliches and some other in the making (free black people, jazz joints, gipsy addicts as Serge Reggiani etc.). Newman and Woodward tastes somo erotism new daring to USA butaged to France. Louis Armstrong pays a visit.

Cool, ordinary locations and interiors (a third of the film occurs in trailers), crookes good ones and nice bad ones, nice scheming Fleming, excellent sidekick Richard Erdman. No doubt Parrish has a point of view.

Long,it has problems of rythm, some dialogues are to naif y pevisible for a 'jamesbondian' sort of film; but wonderful climbing landscapes in Monument Valley and Switzerland Alps.

Forget the trite sperpentic story of incest, pyromania, young aspirants in Hollywood, and arrogance in Croneneberg point of view: the details and cast are worth the film. Julianne is excellent, Mia too, Pattinson cool, Cusack ok and the monster kids talking bullshit is the best joke.