Fran Hortop

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

T-Meter Title | Year
100% L'Atalante (1934) True filmic poetry which turns a simple love story into a raw and off-beat fairytale. Given its monumental reputation, L'Atalante does not disappoint. - Film4 EDIT
Read More | Posted Jul 22, 2019
5/5 96% 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
99% 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
92% West Side Story (1961) Technically stunning, with dazzling choreography matching an unforgettable score. - Film4 EDIT
Read More | Posted Feb 19, 2008
4/5 96% 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
58% 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 94% 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 91% 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
95% 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
88% 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
91% Détective (1985) 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