Reviews by fernando

A little schematic, af if hasn't trascended its theatrical origin, but Bergman enlightens every scene, she made words as eloquent as gesture. I didn´t catch in the film the best line of Durrenmat, heard in a theatrical version in Lima: "This town made me a whore, I'll make it a brothel".

I feel I need another documentary to understand the extent of these bets and reenactments of cruelty on history, on its indonesian society, on their mass murderers characters. Without it, its a bit repetitive and unpurposed

It ties the knot, ending with the best gag of the original. The amici go to Firenze station to slap passengers but they got slapped instead. Tognazzi is great in his motored wheelchair as if he came from the end of, not Amici II, but "Venga prendere cafe da noi". The sequence in the artic has Fellini´s tones.

Saw it by accident (my dvd dealer got confused with Wender´s "Don´t come knocking"). Anyway, a farsical road movie thriller buddy film of two terminal morons wanting to see la mer before dying.

Qué bueno es Landa,me soplo el puente/viaje porque es él quien jura, quien increpa, quein se putea a sí mismo. Hay reiteraciones de road movie en dos llantas (lo de los hippies parece un patético intento de empatar España con la era de acuario gringa), pero buenos diálogos y observaciones documentales, y el gran gag de Landa semidesnudo ante el cortejo funebre.

¡A surprise! Great directing and acting, all understood in glances between Peck and Weld, Peck and Parsons. He walks the moral line thrilled, not wantind to know what he is doing but knowing it.

The critic 70's moaning,going depressed, dreaming a little and killing itself in decadent New Orleans (Tennessee Williams ¿why you condemmed your city to be symbol of decandece?). At least Joanne commits suicide but Paul seems to go to another psychopatriotic adventure. What a pathetic character for Tony Perkins, but he plays ok.

Quick pace and dialogues doesn't restraint the great intrigue, the heavy lie that ruins Miriam and Merle's friendship and Merle and Joel's romance. You have to know Hellman´s play or "The Children's Hour" by Wyler himself, to become aware that the plot ommits the lesbian implicance of the lie, by inventing a third character, McCrea.

Not verosimile for a comedy that pretends to be sexy and full of wit. A gag is worth the screening: Niven beats and plays with Brando´s foot becuase he pretends to be handicaped in a wheelchair.

So good acting that you forget any faiblesse of the argument. Tracy is always neat and eloquent, but Deborah is greater when emotionally broke or drunk. ¿Does anybody know what happened to the wonderful Leueen MacGrath?