From Dusk Till Dawn

Genre: 		Action/Horror
Country: 	USA	
Year:		1996
Runtime: 	108 min.

Director: 	Robert Rodriguez
 
Cast:		Quentin Tarantino .... Richard Gecko
     		George Clooney .......... Seth Gecko
     		Harvey Keitel ......... Jacob Fuller
     		Juliette Lewis ......... Kate Fuller
		Tom Savini ............. Sex Machine
     		Salma Hayek .............. Santanico
     		Kelly Preston .......... TV Reporter
     		John Saxon ............ Investigator
     		Michael Parks ..... Federal Marshall
     		Ernest Liu ............ Scott Fuller
     		Cheech Marin ................ Carlos
     		Fred Williamson .............. Frost

Screenplay:	Quentin Tarantino
		Robert Kurtzman (estória)

Music:		Graeme Revell

Edition:	Robert Rodriguez

Production:	Lawrence Bender
		Gianni Nunnari
		Robert Rodriguez (executive)
		Quentin Tarantino (executive)
		Meir Teper
		Dimension Films / Los Hooligans Productions / Band Apart Productions

Distribuition:  Miramax




				
			I was impatiently  expecting the premičre of  "From Dusk Till Dawn" in 
		Brazil.  The movie that united two of the best new talents on cinema:   Robert
		Rodriguez  and  Quentin Tarantino.   I know that they worked  together before:
		Tarantino did a short role in "Desperado", the big budget reshoot/continuation
		of "El Mariachi",  both directed by Rodriguez;  and they were also together in
		"Four Rooms", a disappointment movie in four episodes, but each one directed a
		episode that the only connection was the character played by Tim Roth, a great
		actor, but who was completely lost doing a sub-Jim Carrey type.   Now they are
		really join forces,  in a full lenght movie,  Robert Rodriguez  directing  and
		Tarantino as screenwriter and actor.  He is one of the fewest screenwriter who
		puts his trade-mark, and its overcome the ones lefted by actors, producers and
		director, the supreme mandatary of a movie.  "True Romance" is pure Tarantino,
		you do not see the presence of topgunner Tony Scott. Director Oliver Stone had
		to completely deformate the original screenplay of "Natural Born Killers",  so
		he could sign peacefully. The first half in "From Dusk Till Dawn" is dominated 
		by the screenplay,   the strong  characters,  unredemption violance and great, 
		great dialogues.  As an actor, Tarantino presence is also remarkable. He plays
		Richard Gecko,  the  violentest  criminal  brother,  a  upcoming  dilacerating
		paranoiac, his best role in a movie.  Coincidently or not,  his character dies
		with the screenplay,when ends the Tarantino's movie and starts a Horror movie.
		From now on, the screenplay is just a amount of cliches,and the worse thing is
		that it don't even have a parody temper, is the simple common place. But thats
		the stuff that Horror movies are made of, and to escape mediocrioty,  the only
		solution in the field  of criative  visual impact,  as Sam Raimi  did in "Evil
		Dead" or George Romero in "The Night Of The Living Dead".Robert Rodriguez does
		this task with an spectacular mestria. Alucinated camera movements, breathless
		edition (also done by Rodriguez) and strong visual gags,turns on the movie the
		same way that turned $7000 (or say them) "El Mariachi" in a great movie. After
		surfing in a sea of pure horrorcore,  heads exploding,  melting bodies,  scary
		mutations, the movie has a dry end.   Maybe it would be  better if the end was
		more dry, since few final dialogues are kind compelling.  The movie also has a 
		great cast:  Juliette Lewis,  always great Harvey Keitel and surprising George
		Clooney.  The Soundtrack is fantastic, and like "Pulp Fiction" and "Desperado"
		is an obligation to have it at home.




Bufo ratings:      Very Good

IMD ratings:       (7,7 in 09/26/96)

Folha ratings:     Good

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