Reviews

I saw this film -featured directly in TV, here in Spain- last night. Though the plot is absolutely known and the roles are the same roles that in hundreds of drama and romantic films, I think that the difference is in the force that the director and the rest of the crew put in it. I felt that I was seen some theatrical release with a deep work between director and actors. True set pieces in the spectacular landscape of Pescara -bello, bello- but you feel trapped in the characters, in their weakness or their force. And I must recognize it: I was hypnotized and enchanted. Please, if this film arrives to you, give it a chance: like a strange jazz melody, the more you hear it, the more you love it. (And, believe us: Myriam Catania is a pretty actress to dream about).

Yesterday I watched this amusing movie, and besides laughing, it made me think. As European, I wanted to argue in favor of TA that I don't consider that this made in particular against any country, if not against the stupidity that we are tolerating in our lives: manipulation informative, false rumors tried as news and ill wills among people and countries that are a total fallacy. And the fight of Parker and Stone, and the rest of the film team is positive: to remove our asses of the armchair while we laugh and also realize us that this it is the same and dear world for all of us. I believe that it deserves to view it with a wide open mind.

I saw this short in Barcelona (Spain) in 1967 in a Sunday matinee –when I was 8 years old, accompanied by my grandmother- together with the Cinerama/Cinemiracle "Windjammer" film, and I never forgot it . I remember perfectly the almost absence of dialogue, and the skate scenes in the streets with the kids. I also remember –but not very certainly because sometimes memory fakes- that Beach Boys "Good vibrations" was in the soundtrack . And, after the short, red curtains open and open and open. and widescreen Cinerama film starts… but this is another story. Sweet memories, sweet childhood!.