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Spain Spain · ciudadano del mundo (palencia)
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7
Drama. Thriller Favraux, an unscrupulous banker, receives a threatening note, signed by "Judex", demanding that he pay back the people he has swindled. He refuses, and apparently dies after a midnight toast at his masked ball. However, he is only drugged by Judex and locked away. Judex spares his life when the banker's widowed daughter, Jacqueline, rejects the inheritance. Meanwhile Diana Monti, the former governess, kidnaps Jacqueline to try to get ... [+]
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  • es
July 25, 2018
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Franju recupera el personaje con el que Louis Feuillade hiciese una saga muy reconocida en los primeros años del cinematógrafo. Aunque algo desigual, este "Judex" de Franju es un drama de intriga bastante fino, elegantemente rodado, con momentos de palpable lirismo y melancolía (hay huellas de la subyugante e inolvidable "Los ojos sin rostro").
El guión tiene momentos muy brillantes combinados con otros realmente algo más flojos. Buena interpretación (la mejor secuencia es la del baile de máscaras).
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