Familia rodante, one of the most brilliant films of the new century, finds Argentinean writer-director Pablo Trapero (Mundo grúa, 1999; Leonera, 2008) invisibly along for the ride on a family trip in a camper van. Four generations cram the van, ranging from an infant to Emilia, the infant’s 84-year-old great-grandmother. At her birthday celebration in […]
Daily Archives: May 23, 2010
“Now make with the dialogue, like Cary Grant makes with Ginger Rogers.” — post-Honeymoon, a line from a ’40s film Knew it! All this talk of Missouri and Texas: nonsense! Ginger Rogers was a Brooklyn babe—at least she is one in Once Upon a Honeymoon, which writer-director Leo McCarey made in between his four Oscars. […]
Dennis Grunes 