jimmy mahonney

A pure masterpiece! Undoubtedly Ruiz's best! Treasure island belongs to this category of films that is devoted to express the realm of childhood, with all its delighted charm, and also its perverted games. This film is not merely an adaptation of Stevenson's famous work ; it tells the story of a child that is gradually brought into a sort of game orchestrated by adults, a game which recreates the childlike universe of Stevenson's Treasure Island. And gradually too, this child happens to merge (but it would be hard to explain) into the figure of the author, played by Jean-Pierre Léaud, whose off-voice relates in French the memories of the child himself. A jigsaw-like film, that is worth to be seen a lot of consecutive times, without its delightful treasures being completely revealed. >

a very moving film, describing the bitterness of a comic that no longer makes laugh, though he's able to make come back to life a young ballet dancer. I'd just like to say a few words about a scene that especially struck me, the famous duet with Buster Keaton at the end. Actually, the previous Calvero's solo performance had provoked a forced and non-authentic laugh from the audience in the theater, whereas, during the duet with Keaton, Chaplin the director had the idea to cut the sound of the audience off. so nobody is heard laughing and the one who watches the film has to decide himself whether he can laugh or not. And If he chooses to laugh, he'll laugh by himself, nobody will laugh with him. He'll have to assume this fact.