'The day of the cheaters'
Someday, Hollywood will be ashamed of the treatment meted out to many of those who made it great. For example, Mankiewicz, retired in 1972, after filming more than twenty films, tired of the treatment he received from the industry. This atypical western plays at blurring the boundaries between good and evil to deliver a brutal portrait of cynical, amoral and corrupt characters. Henry Fonda, the governor of a prison, and Kirk Douglas, one of his inmates, dispute a spiral of deception in a film that embraces the paths of a more than black comedy.
22.10, La 2
‘Taxi’
Carlos Saura approaches the problems of racism and xenophobia, supported by the love story that is born between a young taxi driver whose father is dedicated to attacking immigrants and a boy who collaborates with him. Saura always maintains the intensity as a director and Ingrid Rubio falls in love with the camera.
23.55, Movistar Drama
'Down with the curtain'
In the 1930s, a young Orson Welles was trying to premiere a play that would be banned in a New York devastated by the crisis and cornered by censorship. In his third film as a director, after the exceptional 'Citizen Bob Roberts' and 'Death Penalty', Tim Robbins recreates the episode in order to also propose an emotional hymn to the artists' combative spirit. Down with the Curtain is a film that boasts a ubiquitous camera, with which Robbins draws a choral portrait in which, with astonishing naturalness, he captures the essence of each of the numerous characters.