Fran Hortop

Fran Hortop's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s): Film4

Biography:

Channel 4 film critic.

Publications: Film4

Movie Reviews Only

Movies

	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Review
5/5	97%	La Dolce Vita (1960)	In spite of its thematic ugliness, this is a stunning-looking trawl through the Italian capital, with Ekberg's impromptu paddle in the Trevi fountain still the films enduring image. - Film4 EDIT Read More \| Posted Apr 20, 2009
	98%	The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les Parapluies de Cherbourg) (1964)	A truly unique and wonderful film from a director who stands apart in the French cinema canon. - Film4 EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 30, 2009
	100%	Holiday Inn (1942)	Not the best film for either of the film's stars, but Astaire proves that he can dance even without Ginger. - Film4 EDIT Read More \| Posted Dec 5, 2008
3/5	66%	Paris (2008)	[Klapisch] has created an imperfect but humane ode to his native city. - Film4 EDIT Read More \| Posted Jul 22, 2008
	94%	West Side Story (1961)	Technically stunning, with dazzling choreography matching an unforgettable score. - Film4 EDIT Read More \| Posted Feb 19, 2008
4/5	95%	An American in Paris (1951)	It's a simple love story, but also a celebration of dance, music and art, embodied in the somewhat synthetic notion of Paris as the spiritual home of the arts, and the painterly aesthetic of the film as a whole. - Film4 EDIT Read More \| Posted Feb 19, 2008
	50%	1900 (Novecento) (1977)	This is a handsome film with fierce and heartfelt ambition that succeeds in capturing something of the extreme social turmoil of pre-war Italy. - Film4 EDIT Read More \| Posted Dec 7, 2007
3.5/5	70%	The Magic Flute (2006)	Flashes of inspiration but not enough, one suspects, to cause a stampeding horde of cinemagoers to beat down the doors of the Royal Opera House. - Film4 EDIT Read More \| Posted Nov 30, 2007
5/5	93%	It's a Wonderful Life (1946)	You'd have to possess a very hard heart not to find something to love in this story. - Film4 EDIT Read More \| Posted Nov 27, 2007
3/5	93%	My Life to Live (It's My Life) (Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux) (1962)	Invigorating, revolutionary, joyfully iconoclastic and spontaneous. - Film4 EDIT Read More \| Posted Oct 24, 2007
	100%	La Chinoise (1968)	Prophetic, powerful, disconcerting, infuriating, and surprisingly funny. - Film4 EDIT Read More \| Posted Oct 10, 2007
	100%	The Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru (The Bad Sleep Well) (1962)	It's still as visually striking as anything you will see by this director. - Film4 EDIT Read More \| Posted Jun 22, 2004
	93%	Johnny Guitar (1954)	Compelling, confounding and at times verging on the downright camp, this picture takes a slow- burning but startlingly vivid look at humanity in the outlands. - Film4 EDIT Read More \| Posted May 24, 2003
	92%	Oklahoma! (1955)	Whatever your interest in the sexual politics of the 1950s musical, this is a good-looking, sweet-sounding piece that'll surely have you hot under the collar. - Film4 EDIT Read More \| Posted May 24, 2003
	100%	Détective (1995)	Jean-Luc Godard's hotel-based film noir borders on farce: as conventional as he gets, but still inventive, subversive and darkly comic. - Film4 EDIT Read More \| Posted May 24, 2003
	94%	2 ou 3 Choses que je Sais d'Elle (Two or Three Things I Know About Her) (1967)	Electrifying sound and image collage of 24 hours in the life of a Parisian housewife by France's most difficult and defiant director, Jean-Luc Godard - Film4 EDIT Read More \| Posted May 24, 2003

Best Reviewed Movies

5/5 It's a Wonderful Life 5/5 La Dolce Vita 4/5 An American in Paris — The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les Parapluies de Cherbourg) — 1900 (Novecento)

Worst Reviewed Movies

3/5 My Life to Live (It's My Life) (Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux) 3/5 Paris 3.5/5 The Magic Flute — The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les Parapluies de Cherbourg) — 1900 (Novecento)