Ambiguity has often proven to be the key component of great horror, from the bleak ending of John Carpenter's The Thing to the identity and questionable existence of the ghostly black-haired terrorizer in Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury's Inside. And in...... more »
FilmCritic entries tagged "Daniel Giménez Cacho"
As so many other films have explored, Gerardo Naranjo's I'm Gonna Explode concerns two misanthropic teenagers who fall in love with each other almost immediately. Their love, like most teenage emotions, consists of a frantic balancing act between defensive playfulness...... more »
A decade-plus before he wowed the international scene with the sex tragicomedy Y Tu Mamá También, Alfonso Cuarón rolled out the fun, yet less accomplished Sólo con tu pareja (literally 'Alone with your pair'). Daniel Giménez Cacho is Tómas Tómas,...... more »
Pedro Almodóvar's films have always oozed adoration for tawdry movie melodrama, from the Telemundo-on-cocaine gaudiness of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown to the sweet, sentimental 'women's picture' romance of The Flower of My Secret. And the auteur's...... more »