Category: MOVIES – REVIEWS

Federico Fellini’s “8 ½ ” – Fellini’s treatise on passing is a great film in which the filmmaker exposes himself and the world of cinema, and builds a poignant narrative about human passing.

“All About Eve” by Joseph Mankiewicz is an excellent portrait of the New York theater and its cruel rules. The stage here is also an eloquent metaphor for life.

“Sunset Boulevard” demythologizes the American Dream Factory. Bill Wilder’s outstanding film is also a tribute to silent cinema and the greatness of its stars.

Carlos Saura’s “Cría Cuervos” is a story about a dramatic initiation into adulthood. The film shows that the price of this initiation is always an irreversible loss of innocence.

In “Cousin Angelica” Saura tells the story of Spanish history through the prism of eyewitness experience. The director opens it with the key of memory and forgetting.

“Anna and the Wolves” is a dramatic film by Carlos Saura. An allegory of Francoist Spain, it is also the story of a woman in a brutal world arranged by men.

“Peppermint Frappé” is the quintessential cinema of Carlos Saura. The landscape of the rock-cut Cuenca, the beautiful Geraldine Chaplin and a mix of classical music and rock songs.

“The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie” is not only a pamphlet on the upper class, but also an unmasking of social conventions. We are slaves to the form, says Luis Buñuel.

“Viridiana” is one of the most famous films by Luis Buñuel. The director expressed in it a strong opposition to institutional religiosity and the hypocrisy of social rules.

“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” is a film that is boiling with emotions – there is a rebellion against injustice, fear of ostracism and death, but most of all there is the anger of a distraught mother.