Old Gringo
by Luis Puenzo
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Actor: Gregory Peck, Jane Fonda, Jenny Gago, Jimmy Smits, Patricio ContrerasDirector: Luis Puenzo
Brand: Old
Cinematographer: F?lix Monti
Writer: Luis Puenzo
Editor: Glenn Farr
Producer: David Wisnievitz
Producer: Lois Bonfiglio
Writer: A?da Bortnik
Writer: Carlos Fuentes
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 4.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Georgian (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 4.0
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 119 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-07-02
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Reviews of Old Gringo
DVD Review: Good Movie
Summary: 4 Stars
Few of us have much insight into history outside of the United States, so this is a good tutorial, if you can see past the personal character dynamics. Gregory Peck is really the stand-out in the film and Smits is passionate and compelling in his role. Jane Fonda plays a fairly believeable naive spinster, who finds herself immersed in a world that she knows nothing of, but she rallies her spirits and makes the best of her unexpected situation. Some surprises.DVD Review: old gringo
Summary: 1 Stars
Have no Idea of a review. Was sent in Spanish and for a different Zone that what would play here in the US> Very disappointed with this sale.DVD Review: Old Gringo DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
A fine film with excellent cast, script, etc. Lee Holdridge's score enhances this film greatly. The 1.85:1 DVD is of very high quality and enhanced for widescreen TVs.DVD Review: PATHETIC JUNK!
Summary: 1 Stars
This is a real stinker. The only good thing about this lousy movie is great acting by Gregory Peck. If you must see this disaster then rent it.DVD Review: A good film about a young general who wants to change the world, and an old writer who wants to bid it farewell...
Summary: 3 Stars
The time of the film is 1913, when the American frontier was closing fast... Mexico, on the other hand, was still in a romantic era, the time of Pancho Villa and the Mexican Revolution... Luis Puenzo presented the violent scenes passionately and it is his passion that makes the picture interesting... His use of slow motion to prolong dying remembered me the great Sam Peckinpah in his great Western "The Wild Bunch."
The film begins with Harriet Winslow (Jane Fonda), a repressed American spinster caught in the middle of the Mexican Revolution, when Pancho Villa's revolutionary army was moving against important families in Mexico, declaring them enemies of the Revolution and confiscating all their property...
The state of Chihuahua was in that moment revolutionary country, and Winslow was seen heading to the Miranda hacienda controlled by Federales...
At first, Harriet (who accepted a job as a governess) saw herself caught in a shoot-out and asked for help to return to the border... but later on, she starts to see that something in her face has begun to open... Her clear blue eyes were sweeter than before... And since she never felt in love for being always afraid of the unknown, it was here where her life begins, in a land where death was not the end, but only the beginning...
Jimmy Smits had his moments when he told our heroine that the battles have made him general... The land that he fought for and the people he has killed, starting with the old landowner who raped his mother and made him a bastard... His mother was an Indian peasant while his father was a rich aristocrat... This wasn't just his history... It was the history of everybody in Mexico...
Peck does a fine job in his touching portrait of the intolerable gringo old enough to be an observer... He had dared to say farewell to a world, where he wrote every day of his life without exception... He wrote when his youth drifted by, and while love betrayed him... Ambrose Bierce grows fond of the young general, considering him too much like him, capable of fighting for words written on pieces of paper... In an especially poignant scene, his best moments come long before the end, when not knowing if this might perhaps be Harriet's ' first time' he requested that she participates with him in what will undoubtedly be his 'last time...'
"Old Gringo" depicts the Mexican music, life of the Mexican people, their special cult to the death, their drunken fiesta, their cheerful whores trading sex for books, the faces of the children, sometimes observers, sometimes participating in the whole twisted ethic of violence...
There is some nice cinematography in the film, and the Mexican countryside is well taken... Most of the film's action takes place in a fine hacienda...
Description of Old Gringo
No Description Available.Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 2-JUL-2002
Media Type: DVD
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