Fernando Trueba
Fernando Trueba's reviews do not count toward the Tomatometer®. This is not a Tomatometer-approved critic, and this critic's reviews are not published on a Tomatometer-approved publication.
Movies reviews only
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Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) |
I don't know if Au Hasard Balthazar is a masterpiece. I don't even know what it is exactly, aside from a rare and fascinating object. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 08, 2019
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Comes a Horseman (1978) |
Comes a Horseman is one of the most exciting and elliptical love stories that we have been given to think about in a very long time. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 07, 2019
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The Lady Vanishes (1979) |
Some changes in the dialogue and logical modifications are the few innovations in this remake that is still pleasant to watch. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 07, 2019
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The Tin Drum (1979) |
The best parts of The Tin Drum are its powerful and forceful images, the primitivism of the narrative, its overwhelming and justified beauty, and its child actor David Bennent. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 07, 2019
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Successive Slidings of Pleasure (1974) |
A suspenseful comedy whose humor is hibernating and whose suspense is reduced to a mathematical skeleton in an autopsy table. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 07, 2019
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The Great Train Robbery (1978) |
The Great Train Robbery is not a good adventure film and it's a shame because it could have been. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 06, 2019
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The Wild Bunch (1969) |
The Wild Bunch is the last and indisputable epic story of the Western genre. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 06, 2019
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Lemon Popsicle 4 (1983) |
Eskimo Limon doesn't offer anything new. Everything in it has been seen and heard a thousand times. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 06, 2019
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The Visitor (1979) |
In The Visitor, logic and common sense are scarce and no one believes anything. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 06, 2019
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Girlfriends (1978) |
Girlfriends is a movie as profound as life can be. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 06, 2019
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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979) |
A curious B-movie that is entertaining at times. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 06, 2019
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978) |
The humor is superficial and tawdry, and tries to copy Mel Brooks' style, but fails to do so. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 06, 2019
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Vivir en Sevilla ends up being clumsily rhetorical and schemingly innovative. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 06, 2019
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Paradise Alley (1978) |
The setting, the excellent cinematography, and sense of humor makes us forgive Sylvester Stallone's many excesses. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 06, 2019
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No Place to Hide (1956) |
No Place to Hide pretends to be political, but it ends up being as simple as a comic book. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 06, 2019
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California Suite (1978) |
California Suite is the third script by Neil Simon that Herbert Ross shoots, and it's also his worst. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 05, 2019
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Gulliver is an attempt to play with the real and the fantastic, the ordinary and the mythical. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 05, 2019
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Ashanti (1979) |
Ashanti is one of the most basic films of this genre that is as difficult to practice as it is easy to watch. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 05, 2019
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The Wedding (1972) |
The Wedding reveals a tired filmmaker who has nothing new to tell. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 05, 2019
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Foul Play (1978) |
Colin Higgins proves himself adept at recreating the style and themes of Hitchcock's films, as well as creating entertaining schemes. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 05, 2019
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Dawn of the Dead (1978) |
In addition to satisfying the demands of fans of this genre, Dawn of the Dead offers a bitter reflection on the lack of human solidarity. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 05, 2019
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Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976) |
Harlan County follows with precision and detail the development of the long conflict in Harlan. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 02, 2019
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Alice in Spanish Wonderland (1979) |
Alice in Spanish Wonderland is neither funny nor entertaining, nor especially sharp. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 02, 2019
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El diputado (Confessions of a Congressman)(The Deputy)(The Deputy and the Congressman) (1985) |
Confessions of a Congressman is a calculated and Machiavellian step forward in the commercial ascension of Eloy de la Iglesia. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 02, 2019
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The Wild Party (1975) |
The Wild Party is a crepuscular ballad about the numerous artists whose careers were quietly eclipsed with silent cinema. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 02, 2019
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D.H. Lawrence's novel has been transformed into a melodramatic soap opera of erotic insinuations that time has transformed from daring to corny and ridiculous. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 02, 2019
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The End (1978) |
An acceptable commercial product that's entertaining despite its notable lack of structure. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 02, 2019
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Superman: The Movie (1978) |
While the first part of the movie is pretentious and boring, the second part adopts a comedic tone and is full of brilliant and entertaining dialogue. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 02, 2019
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Behind Convent Walls (1978) |
Walerian Borowczyk's movies have experienced a progressive deterioration of the values that existed in his first film. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 02, 2019
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Mean Streets (1973) |
Mean Streets is perhaps Martin Scorsese's most imperfect film... but it's also the least pretentious. It's a devilishly skillful, restless, and nervous film. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 02, 2019
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The Fury (1978) |
The Fury is the best De Palma film I know, the most perfect, the less incoherent. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 02, 2019
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Damien: Omen II (1978) |
The film's coherence diminishes its effectiveness and end goal: to scare at any given cost. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 01, 2019
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The Swarm (1978) |
The end result is indifference and boredom. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 01, 2019
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Eyes of Laura Mars (1978) |
Eyes of Laura Mars is nothing but a hidden attempt to repeat one of the greatest hits of two seasons ago: Lamont Johnson's Lipstick. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 01, 2019
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High Anxiety (1977) |
More than an homage to Alfred Hitchcock, High Anxiety is a copycat. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 01, 2019
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For the most part, the plot is clichéd and predictable. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 01, 2019
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The Turning Point (1977) |
The Turning Point lacks a script. Herbert Ross is more than an acceptable director... but here he vacillates between making a melodrama or a documentary about ballet. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 01, 2019
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Jaws 2 (1978) |
Jaws 2 manages to entertain and scare. At the end of the day, isn't that what it's all about? [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 01, 2019
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Death on the Nile (1978) |
There is not one likeable character among the extensive cast, which results in the logical reaction of being indifferent to the plot and its development. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 01, 2019
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491 (1963) |
491 offers a questionable variation of Robert Bresson's theme of how grace is obtained through hidden and indirect ways. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 01, 2019
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Pretty Baby (1978) |
Pretty Baby is a radically subversive product, presented in an elegant and precious packaging. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 01, 2019
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A Very Curious Girl (1969) |
Nelly Kaplan tells her story in a farcical tone, but has one grave flaw: her movie has no humor, which takes away the effectiveness of what should have been a corrosive satire. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 01, 2019
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The Greek Tycoon (1978) |
The movie's version of the relationship between Aristotle Onassis and Jacqueline Kennedy is the most clichéd and superficial, akin to the one the tabloids offer. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 01, 2019
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Arabian Nights (1974) |
With Arabian Nights, Pier Paolo Pasolini achieves his most tender, fresh, and cheerful film. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 01, 2019
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The National Shotgun (1978) |
The National Shotgun is probably Luis García Berlanga's most ruthless movie. A direct and savage film that makes no concessions. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Aug 01, 2019
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The Best Way to Walk (1976) |
Best Way to Walk is a film of astonishing unity. Its language is direct, precise, and convincing. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Jul 31, 2019
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Sweet Movie (1974) |
The use of symbols is at times indecipherable and at others excessive... The scenes are disconnected and incoherent, trying to be provocative. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Jul 31, 2019
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The Betsy (1978) |
The Betsy is Hollywood trash. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Jul 31, 2019
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March or Die (1977) |
That an adventure film is as tremendously boring as March or Die is the most dangerous contradiction; it's unforgivable. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Jul 31, 2019
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Victory March (1976) |
Victory March is, above all, a brave film. [Full Review in Spanish] - El Pais (Spain)
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| Posted Jul 31, 2019
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