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In repose, it is a chiseled mask, with avian eyes that give away little; then, swamped by feeling, those features wiggle and crack and loosen from their moorings.
… [It] offers diabolically smart surprises wherever you care to look" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). The wild measures Ripley takes to maintain the charade cause some critics to lose interest in the second half of the film: "When Tom's aberrant qualities become more dangerous, the movie loses its moorings and drifts into a sort of highly polished, implausible melodrama" (Desson Howe, the Washington Post ). (Visit the official site.)
The promenade winds along the beaches of El Fuerte and Fontanilla, passing a marina (Puerto Deportivo) with moorings for several hundred pleasure boats, overlooked by the tall spire of the lighthouse.
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There are numerous marinas along the coast between Málaga and Sotogrande, providing year-round moorings for yachts and motor boats.