Reviews by fernando

3 stars just as my hommage to Resnais. He is too demanding throwing us, by a mischievous plot, to the representation of a play not clear for anyone. More than one actor plays the same role, there is a thir company playing it in film, the locations break the space. But the actors (Amalric. Piuccoli, Arditi, Azema, even Lambert Wilson and Anne Consigny) are great

Fatalist but in a way sincere. Two opposite gay characters but appasionate for each other the same: one denies it going also with women; the other procalims it without having to. And ends too sadly.

I love the way of attacking the plot, meeting the charaters distracted, in events far from the facts (great actress Luminita Gheoghiu is dancing, or at the opera, when she is beated by the plot). In the end there's is another approach, frontal, almost melodramatic.

'Complete' is a good description for this doc. Every man and woman alife who talked or lived or romanced or just photographed Salinger is here. The result is that you're are not sure of loving him as you love him before the doc. I feel the Sadness and resignation of Hotchner when he recalls the day their friendship ended.

In this brief account of painful polish themes:the sweet posession of an inminent nun, the corruption of good and bad people, the indolence of the witnesses, the uneasiness of judgement (the judge commits suicide). As if you were seeing the Wajda christ head down ("Ashes and diamonds"), without seeing it. After the hell and the life and the sex, the nun becomes nun. Thats the escape.

Great subject that of children changed at birth by mistake; Hirokazu Koreed exploits it with the deepness of an essay but never losing the lineal and simple narration. They are the characters who say what they have to say.

El ansia de destape (una década antes de que este pase) revisitada con toque sentimental. Que pueblerina era España pero que aventuras le podía esperar al profesor cuarentón y sus autoestopistas. Quizá Trueba exagera al cubrir a sus personajes de excesiva inocencia. Lo de Lennon sí es creíble.

Buen ritmo, no decae nunca, muy bien Dani Rovira impostando lo vasco hasta el paroxismo. Su mejor momento es cuando tira una de las pruebas que lo desenmascararían y rompe la ventana. Un catálogo de todos los estereotipos mofables, incluido el terrorismo.

Indolent, rude, only in that vein could be moving. I was moved, particularly, by the innocence of the little discriminated brother in spite of the rejection of his 'white'brother. And, of course, by the assumptiom, of the racist friends, that our main character is accepted just because of his pitbull.

Great, poetic realism where don´t expect to find it, in the middle of apparent popular sexy comedy which this film is not. Everything flows because Zampa has the eyes of a man in new territory, just guided -literally, as Claudia- by a character ashamed of being himsel. I was moved by Sordi.