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Reviews
Todo sobre mi madre (1999)
Cheesy
Only some scenes deserve my applause: those in which Almodovar gather his women and has the opportunity of showing us all his knowledge about the universe of women, through some small details in their behavior.
The big mistake: all the story turns around a character that never appears until the end, and that should have never appeared, for he doesn't beat the expectations. If Almodovar feels the necessity of showing up such a clown is because he doesn't believe in what he is telling.
Rosetta (1999)
Beauty
In my opinion, the best movie of 1999.
Definitively, underlining the existence of a master-piece called "Mouchette" is a must. Though Dardene brothers are not changing the cinematographic language as Bresson did, their movie almost attains in a few moments both the beauty and the intensity of Bresson's master-piece. Only a true artist can repeat the suicide of Mouchette succesfully (and, without any doubt, the moving final sequence belongs to the history of cinema with all merits). I'd like to point out also the magnificent use of music in this film (you could hardly find two movies a year in which the music is not a nuisance nowadays, some directors should limit themselves to the music that comes from the scene itself -a radio, a piano...- ): it appears only once, and is a messy, distortioned home recording of drums, which serves the co-starring as an excuse to dance with Rosetta. To those who are looking for a contrast in the movie, it's precisely this boy and specially this scene the ones that offer a way out.
Do the people that need to know why Rosetta is like that also want to know why the birds attack the humans in Hitchcocks classic?
Is it possible to construct such a character without showing, by repetition of sequences, the redundance of Rosettas' life? Is it possible such a beauty in the final sequence without the proper patient use of time?