Reviews by fernando

(MU) Too effective but the hiper conscious vindictive symbolic Elliott Page character is too much. No place to errors, to hazard, to twists....

(MU) Jame Campion short debut is just a small part of "Sweetie", with an indisciplined boy, reckless parents and indifferent milieu.....

(MU) The close up of an ambiguous girl/boy identity after a one take forest landscape, has enough force and mistery...

(MU) Excellent framing, thorugh a monument and a dialogue bwteen a burocrat and a curator, og legacy and history and contradictions in rumanian identity...

(MU) Antiepic, but acumulative, fluid account of Tiradentes coming of braislian consciousness, after suffering discrimination, seeing a quilombo, wasting his life looking for gold and reading independentist books....there it ends, with no independentist action, but an intorductory voice in off explains everything...

(MU) Intimate account, through sis and bros and family firends of the suicide of Camilo in 1968, Marco Bellochio's twin brothers. A serene, sincere, exorcism of an old trauma and guilt...

( MU) La lucha libre es interesante porque sí, no porque el director e adentre o comprometa con ella. El pase de una generación a otra es frío como la dirección documental y todo lo demás....

(MU) Stylized in various layers, musucially, linguisticallu, historically, symbolically. The killer os the converted hero, the cangaceiro is the faded hero, the saint woman is the symbol of anything, the city and institutions are just there in the background. the intuitive choreographies, the archetipal secondary characters (Odette Lara, Lewgoy,the bond chief).....

(OK) Czech wonderful wave. Here Kachyna mocks on power, on naiveté of the survivals, wth a tuch of whta seem reduction to absurd, but there are the real ears. Toxic realtion man and wife is more than a bonus...

(OK) Aldrich's swansong wih excellent secuences of action in the ring choking with gender and genre. These girls are real tough. Even this a stor of winners there¿s a specal sadness in it...