French Films

[Catfish]

I can't believe there is not a thread like this for this forum.

I have many questions about French films that I have seen or
ones that I'm curious about.

Currently, I want to "Cache", but have heard mixed reviews.

Any thoughts or suggestions for this film or any other French movies?

Merci

[uvasoccer]

I heard "The Valet" is good, so I added it to my Netflix queue. Netflix says it comes out on DVD on Sept 18.

[ilv2]

hm do you mean the film "la doublure" with gad? it's a pretty shallow comedy, and a weak one too.

a lot of people are saying good things about that film with romain duris playing piano, so you might want to check that out.

[Catel]

I don't like French cinema today. The last I've seen are Dupontel's Enfermés dehors, Bouchareb's Indigènes and Hazanavicius' OSS 117 and I would gave a 6/10 for each of them.

My preferences are Melville, Demy, Carné, Verneuil, Bresson, Oury, Jugnot and sometimes Godard and Truffaut. I'm disappointed by Renoir, Resnais, Rohmer, Chabrol.

The greatest French masterpieces I've ever seen are:
-Napoléon (Abel Gance)
-Pierrot le Fou
-Alphaville
-Un condamné à mort s'est échappé
-Buffet froid
-Drôle de drame
-Orphée (Cocteau)
-Les demoiselles de Rochefort
-Le Roi et l'Oiseau
-Le Samouraï
-La Jetée

[guignol]

just offhand i'd have to add:

la grande illusion
une partie de campagne
la règle du jeu

les enfants du paradis

bob le flambeur

but above all, the films of jacques tati. imo he is to cinema what proust is to literature.

[from the plaines]

If you like comedy The dinner game was hilarious, I havent laughed as hard from a movie in a long time.

[lefutur]

I actually like Indigènes a lot, good story, good cinematography and a good moral lesson about racism.

i think on my list would be:

la haine
le retour de martin guerre
amélie
l'auberge espagnol
delicatessen
le placard
jean de florette

[lefutur]

I can't believe there is not a thread like this for this forum.

I have many questions about French films that I have seen or
ones that I'm curious about.

Currently, I want to "Cache", but have heard mixed reviews.

Any thoughts or suggestions for this film or any other French movies?

Merci

Caché is horrible. i can't believe such well respected actors would do such a boring and depressing movie.

[Friedel'sAccent]

Le Mépris is the best film ever made. I will tolerate no dissent! ;)
Jules et Jim is a close second.

I am also a big fan of Claire Denis's work.

[alain_9510]

I really enjoyed La Gloire de mon Pere and Le Chateau de ma Mere, directed by Yves Robert.

[guignol]

I really enjoyed La Gloire de mon Pere and Le Chateau de ma Mere, directed by Yves Robert.not very highbrow of me, but i did too.

le mépris i really have to see someday. à bout de souffle was OK but the godard film i liked most was tous les garçons s'appellent patrick.

jules et jim i did like, but wouldn't call it TGFEM... la nouvelle vague is OK, but no be all and end all...

[Gnafron]

Caché is horrible. i can't believe such well respected actors would do such a boring and depressing movie.

Caché is really a masterpiece, Hanneke is a great director and i find very interesting how violence (usually springing violence) is treated by that author. There's obviously an Austrian touch (Jelinek is not that far) and an echo with what is shown by some French artists (Gaspar Noé: Seul contre tous, Irréversible for e.g.).

(...)
le mépris i really have to see someday. (...)

One of my favourite film ever, a perfect example of creativity abolishing constraint...

The same year in Le Petit Soldat Godard has given us one of the best seduction scene with the young Anna Karina...

[Catfish]

I recently saw "Exiles" and "Sequins".
Exiles was interesting and had very unique, hot scene in a
fruit orchard.

"Sequins", I liked it, but it was just a solid film...nothing incredible
or unique.

[guignol]

this weekend i watched les vacances de m. hulot... tati is an unbelievable alchemist; like proust and celine, he is able to make a stable compound out of oil of vitriol and balm of gilead.

[AfrcnHrbMan]

I just recently watched this short film about these two business men playing squash. Apparently it won some awards and an oscar nomination. I thought it was hillarious though I'm not if it was supposed to be.

http://www.channel4.com/film/reviews/film.jsp?id=131522

[from the plaines]

la haine

Maybe it was just me, but for a lot of the movie it was hard for me to feel bad for the characters. since most of the time they were jerks.

[Pierre-Henri]

I saw "bienvenue chez les Ch'tis" yesterday. My parents are from the "ch'nord" and wanted to bring me along. I must say everybody in the theater, including myself, was laughing almost from the first frame to the last. And it was a nice, honest laugh... not the dumb, gross, ugly kind of laugh you get with cretinous teen comedies (*) .

Back to the "Cht'is" : a good familial comedy.

I really want to marry Zoé Félix, too.

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(*) for people who laugh at dumb teen movies, like "Brice", of course. In my opinion, such people should be medically treated.

[ASU55RR]

I liked La Doublure (the Valet), but it was shallow. Still, entertaining, hollywood isn't the only place that gets to produce simply entertaining and not overly deep film-noir want to bes.

[Catfish]

I liked La Doublure (the Valet), but it was shallow. Still, entertaining, hollywood isn't the only place that gets to produce simply entertaining and not overly deep film-noir want to bes.
Glad you commented on it...have seen
it at my local library and tempted to watch
it just for something new.

Any thoughts on "My best friend"?

[AfrcnHrbMan]

Hey I know this isn't a movie but has anyone ever watched 'Moot, Moot'? I got the first episode and I thought it was mildly amusing, I wanted to see if anyone else had any input on it.