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Casablanca (1942)
A Classic.
What can we possibly say about CASABLANCA?
We can say that's one of the biggest all-time classics. And it's, perhaps, one of the few classic movies that haven't disappointed me. I say these because when I watch a movie that many people considered excellent (for example THE WIZARD OF OZ), I eider think it's bad, or I'm bored to death.
As I was saying, CASABLANCA, didn't disappoint me. In fact, I love it. Humphrey Bogart is fabulous as Rick, and Ingrid Bergman is absolutely beautiful as Ilsa, one of the best female characters ever, I think.
A side from the performances, the script has thousands of beautiful lines, like "The world is falling a part and we're falling in love", and it also has great dialogues: "What's your nationality", someone asks Rick; "Drunk", he answers.
The story mix perfectly the fabulous love story with a perfect portrayal of the life of the European refugees in Casablanca, trying to escape the II World War by going to the U.S.
A movie to cry, to think, to fall in love with Bergman, and to (at first) hate and then love Boggie.
As many say, a classic.
Buenos Aires Vice Versa (1996)
The essence of Buenos Aires
OK, there are a few things that don't work in this film, like, for example, the begining, wich is a little slow.
But that's pretty much the only thing that's not good about the movie. This film captures the true essence of the city of Buenos Aires and of its people, especially in the final hour. Vera Fogwill, as a young, un-experience film-maker who goes trough half the city filming and searching the beauty of Buenos Aires, along with the company of a boy from the street, wonderfly play by newcomer Nazareno Casero, gives one of the most heart-breaking and sweet performances ever seen on film.
Mirta Busnelli is also great, as a divorce woman, who is still in love (in fact, obsess) with her ex-husband, who's a tv host, so she puts the tv in the other side of the table and eats dinner wile she talks to him. And Carlos Roffe is excellent playing a men in love with the crazy woman.
Director Alejandro Agresti shows a mixed view of Buenos Aires: he maneges to show it both beautiful and uggly, in every scene you watch you get the feeling that's pretty but it also sickening.
This is one of the best film I ever seen, and that's simply because it's director succeed in showing the city trough he's eyes.
If you can get it, and you're in the moud for some lafs and tears, watch it.
Cien veces no debo (1990)
The best argentine comedy ever made!!!!
This movie is, by far the best argentine comedy ever filmed (OK, it does share that title with ESPERANDO LA CARROZA). Don't pay any attention to the rating: this story about a pregnant 18-year old girl, just rush out of high school and about to enter college, who has her so self-called "liberal and moderns" parents thinking she's a sweet little virginal angel, when she's in fact cheeding in her stupid boyfriend (who she is not sleeping with) with half the neighborhood. Alejandro Doria, who also directed ESPERANDO LA CARROZA, makes the film adaptiation of the stageplay by the same name one of the most brutal critics to the argentine middle-clase hipocresy, and to the family in general. It also has an incredible amount of fabolous, and completely halarious performances by Andrea del Boca, playing the Lidia, the pregnant girl, Norma Aleandro (who you might now from the 1984 best foreign picture Oscar winner THE OFFICIAL STORY, or from her rol in GABY, A TRUE STORY, wich gives her a nomination for supporting actress in 1987) as her mother, Luis Brandoni as her father, Dario Grandinetti as her innocent boyfriend, Federico Luppi as the father of the baby, Verónica Llinás as an silent maid, and many more. If you want to see a good argentine movie that will also make you think, you definitely have to go to the closest international video store and get this movie.