Toni Roig

Toni Roig

Favorite films

  • The Birds
  • Rio Bravo
  • Rumble Fish
  • Stalker

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  • The Electric State

    ★★

  • The Substance

    ★★★½

  • Kill, Baby... Kill!

    ★★★★

  • The Beyond

    ★★★

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  • The Electric State

    The Electric State

    ★★

    Back in the nineties, it would have been a beautiful Screensaver.

  • The Substance

    The Substance

    ★★★½

    Well, this is a hard one to write about. I felt this is a very unbalanced movie. Satirical, and yet some caricature was too shallow. The script is focused and yet it stumbles. Mise-en-scene is brilliant any yet too obvious at times (oh, some close-ups...), the end is grotesque by tone, not by gore. References are fine, but I think Fargeat overuse them.

    All in all, I appreciate the sheer boldness of it all, the "no prisoners" uncompromising attitude, the…

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  • The Grand Budapest Hotel

    The Grand Budapest Hotel

    ★★★★

    [English/ Spanish review]

    Let me be honest with you: this is my first Wes Anderson movie. 

    Hope you are still there. Truth is that there's something in all this man's movies that kept me away, every time I approached: I admit that Bill Murray might be one of them, the other being his particular brand of surrealist humour, that didn't feel appealing to me (as much as I love surrealist humour). Watching The Grand Budapest Hotel, I reassured some of…

  • House

    House

    ★★★★

    [English/ Spanish review]

    This movie is like no other. A surrealist nightmare with lysergic effects, a living proof that you only need your (even sick) imagination to break any limit. And that haunted house stories can be told in endless (even sick) ways.

    Esta es una película como no hay otra. Una pesadilla surrealista de efectos lisérgicos, una prueba viva que sólo necesitas tu imaginación (aunque sea enfermiza) para romper cualquier límite. Y que las historias de casas encantadas se pueden contar de infinitud de maneras (aunque sean enfermizas).