A Good Man (Un Buen Hombre)
About Film
Session Times
Saturday 3 April 3:45pm
REVIEWS
A quartet of superb actors. As in the best classics, in one instant the conflict becomes evident and the solution uncertain.
ABC
F. Marín Bellón
It is essential to emphasize the many (and manifold) virtues of a film removed from the vacuous Spanish commercial cinema full of repetitive characteristics to which we are accustomed.
A script well constructed, even rich in its dialogue; direction that achieves credible and original ranges from its actors and, ultimately, a sober production with attention to detail, stripped of sensationalism and gratuitousness.
CAHIERS DU CINEMA
Andrés Rubín de Celis
Nearly all Spanish thriller films follow American models: the film’s main attribute is Martinez Moreno’s model, which appears to be French: Chabrol. How to hide a crime is the subject of a thriller that works much better when it opts for tragedy than when it tries to be a thriller with conflicting characters.
METROPOLIF. M.
Reminiscences of Hitchcock or Chabrol, in a film that features the craftsmanship of European cinema. The director shows promise with a production that attempts to go somewhat further than simple functionality. The director aims high.
KANE3
Manuel Barrero
The film, believably shot, goes straight into territory previously visited by Claude Chabrol in film and Patricia Highsmith in literature. And the director succeeds wonderfully, which is no small feat. The actors do the rest.
PÚBLICO
C. P.
A Good Man is in the fatalistic thriller league (or about how upright human beings are able to stray to the point where they practically crack up), a bent that directors like Fritz Lang or Claude Chabrol would have exploited brilliantly.Juan Martinez Moreno directs A Good Man with sobriety, giving it a persuasive atmosphere. (…)
Tristan Ulloa and Emilio Gutierrez Caba are both contenders of immanent stature as actors.An interesting film, all the more if you discover it spontaneously, without any prior knowledge”.
LA VANGUARDIA
Jordi Batlle Caminal
The combination of a crime story, a psychological thriller, a social depiction and a moral drama of religious reminiscences, is described with a certain verisimilitude, amplified by the good work of the four protagonists, lead by an excellent Tristan Ulloa.
EL PAÍS
Javier Ocaña
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