Reviews by doudouce55

Clouzot directs with a cruelty that combines a nastily tangled storyline worthy of Hitchcock with three strong performances (one of which is the beautiful Simone Signoret) and a seedy setting.
There are scenes of physical horror, but Clouzot also sets the flesh creeping with incidences of ordinary nastiness.


The remake with Isabelle Adjani, Chazz Palminteri and Sharon Stone just isn’t as scary or eerie as the 1954 original.

A sprawling family saga, with James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, Dennis Hopper and Rock Hudson – what more could you ask for? The performances are outstanding, and the Texas landscape is just plain beautiful.

Let’s not forget the film also deals interestingly with both racial and class differences.

A definitive chicks’-night-in flick, it’s one of the best love stories of all times – even if it’s a remake of Love Affair (1939) with Irene Dunne.

Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr are unforgettable.

An epic about triviality, this is a film that paradoxically set as many fashion styles as it set out to demolish. And of course, there are the splendid performances by Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg and Anouk Aimée.

Several reasons to see this chicks’-night-in flick:
Audrey Hepburn, who frankly outdid herself (no one, not even Marilyn Monroe could have outdone her performance), she’s so brilliant;
Hepburn’s elegance and chic attitude;
Henry Mancini’s score, more specifically Hepburn’s singing Moon River because it is enchanting;
classic cinematic moments that make you want to see this film over and over.

It’s one of Hollywood’s most delightful romantic dramas.

The fact that this film’s dialogue is entirely sung, makes it a mandatory viewing. Director Jacques Demy incorporated song and dance in the service not of escape, but of realism. The effect is riveting and profoundly moving.

Everyone should see this for several reasons: Michel Legrand’s score is superbly enchanting; Catherine Deneuve gives an outstanding, convincing and unforgettable performance, probably the best in all her career. And most of all, since, in the real world, not all stories have a happy ending, the director was deft enough to convey that with emotional honesty, magic and maturity.

The greatest screen epic (and love story) ever produced, it’s a pretty accurate adaptation of Boris Pasternak’s novel which chronicles the discontents of early 20th-century Russian society.

This film has riveting action, and most importantly depicts one of the most important historical events: the disastrous effects of World War I on the country, the revolution that destroyed the old order, the political turmoil and insecurity.

Well-known actors like Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Alec Guinness and Klaus Kinsky deliver amazing performances.

Paul Newman and Robert Redford are my two reasons for watching this. I don’t recall seeing such astonishing, mind-blowing performances.

The witty dialogue, the soundtrack, the themes of loyalty and deception are the other reasons.

A classic comedy, it pioneered a new style in mainstream cinema: lots of subplots, pop allusions, dramatic complications, subversive implications, a happy ending, and marvelous performances by Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, and my favorite, Teri Garr, who isn’t as popular as she could be.

I never get tired of watching this film.

Perhaps one of Bergman’s least known movies, this I consider to be one of his best.

This is an autobiographical tale of a brother and sister born in an aristocratic family in Sweden. The story is part Dickensian drama, part mystical fairy tale.

Yes, it is long and slow, and may put modern action viewers off, but every image is worth seeing. The entire film has a dreamy sense of the unreal, a relief during its more tragic moments.