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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 10, 2009 5:36:20 GMT
What an experience, Cigalechanta!
I am curious ~~ why did you find her comment sad? I wonder how she meant it, since good film-making is certainly an art.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2010 19:53:22 GMT
Returning to Luc Besson's promise not to direct any more films, this year he made the very entertaining Adèle Blanc-Sec, based on a series of graphic novels.
And his Arthur & the Minimoys 3 is due to come out soon.
He has made an act of contrition about his previous statement.
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Post by lagatta on Aug 14, 2010 18:49:59 GMT
We don't have Adèle Blanc-Sec here yet. It looks like fun - though does Besson really get Tardi? (Est-ce qu'il le pige?)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2010 21:15:08 GMT
Yes, I think he understood the cynical quirkiness of it.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2011 12:51:21 GMT
Thought I would mention the disappearance of Peter Postlethwaite. He was a fixture in British cinema for a long time, playing both good and bad guys. I will always remember him as the star of Brassed Off.
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Post by onlymark on Jan 3, 2011 13:51:10 GMT
Disappearance? He's not disappeared, he's dead. We know exactly where he is.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2011 14:37:56 GMT
Yes, but the actor has disappeared and a dead body has been left in his place.
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Post by onlymark on Jan 3, 2011 14:56:09 GMT
'Actor' is a matter of debate.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2011 15:54:29 GMT
I must also mention the disappearance of the other great European star Arnold Schwarzenegger from his great role as governator of California. He can now return to making art films.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2011 18:34:57 GMT
I must also mention the disappearance of the other great European star Arnold Schwarzenegger from his great role as governator of California. He can now return to making art films. ;D Yes! I'm waiting with baited breathe!!!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2015 19:22:00 GMT
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Post by whatagain on Nov 27, 2015 21:13:27 GMT
Watching a movie done by a star with a belgian STAR : Claude Van Damme... Chasse à l'homme, original title : hard target by john woo
Very subtle... tight here, the action shows the bad guys on a heli pursuing the good one (JCVD) on a horse. It is incredibly stupid. Yet I've seen it 3 times and will watch the remaining 20 minutes... go figure.
Must be all the guns they have...
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Post by whatagain on Nov 27, 2015 21:37:10 GMT
Seriously now, my best french movies are comedies. I loved la grande vadrouille, bienvenue chez les ch'tis, de l'autre côté du périph, le père noêl est une ordure, les bronzés, la vérité si je mens. Of course the 'duos' with Depardieu and P Richard, etc. Smaller movies like 'de l'autre côté du lit' (ok, Sophie Marceau), 20 ans d'écart, the series about 'Taxi'
Recently I liked 'les intouchables', another hit and I loved 'Samba' - a little big long, Omar Sy overdoing a bit, but Charlotte Gainsbourg is just absolutely fabulous. And I laughed like crazy at 'qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au bon dieu' and 'barbecue' - a movie about friends with excellent actors (MLambert Wilson, fabulous here, Frank Dubosc, one-man show and great here, Florence Foresti (a one woman show too), Tonqu"dec (a TV comedian mostly, great).
UK movies, I liked the Ken Loaches and the Monty Pythons (ok, not recent) and other Wandas...
Belgian movies ... I don't like the Coenen and generally speaking if a movie goes to Cannes, I avoid it. I loved a movie about a priest in Flanders, though.
I don't like italian movies as a rule, especially not the 60's movies. I don't know much about german movies and don't like much Almodovar and hate horror movies. I will never go to see a drama, and on TV will try to avoid it too - I want to laugh not to be depressed.
I must confess I'm more of a US movies fan : it must be spectacular for me to go to a movie... James Bond, Mission Impossible are musts for me.
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Post by bjd on Nov 28, 2015 8:25:41 GMT
I think, Pariswat, that we have totally opposite tastes in movies! I saw a VanDamme movie in a bus in Ecuador, so I was an unwilling audience. It was so ridiculous -- they get beaten up and immediately are able to leap up and kill the bad guys. And despite living in France all these years, I have never understood "French comedy", except for the very occasional movie like La Cité de la Peur. All the movies cited in the first paragraph of reply 42 are examples of movies I don't find funny. I guess growing up with Monty Python and British-style humour spoiled me for much else.
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Post by whatagain on Nov 28, 2015 14:11:22 GMT
No prob Bjd ! Monty Python of course is difficult to beat... My wife doesn't like this kind of humour though... I find it fascinating that some people who do have humour react quite differently towards the facettes of humour.
For instance, I hate Mr Bean and love Black Adder.
Do you like Kamelot ? I find it very funny and maybe the closest to english humour made in France.
mvg
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Post by bjd on Nov 28, 2015 15:40:25 GMT
What is Kamelot? I just looked for it on Youtube but found only music videos by a band called Kamelot.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2015 16:46:37 GMT
Kaamelott
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Post by bjd on Nov 28, 2015 19:52:57 GMT
Ah, thanks, Kerouac. Well, maybe you had to be there -- excerpts on youtube don't really make me fall off my chair laughing.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2015 12:44:38 GMT
Anyway, I disagree with both of you.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2015 7:02:24 GMT
Youth (which personally I did not like) won the European film award for best film and best director this year.
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Post by bjd on Dec 15, 2015 7:06:07 GMT
Well, I thought it was a great movie, especially visually.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2016 19:57:00 GMT
I can't believe this movie is being exported.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 18, 2020 16:48:50 GMT
One thing that will apparently always be different in European movies from the rest of the world is the treatment of infidelity, which is generally considered to be inevitable and of course a bit painful but something that you just have to accept and move on.
In the past couple days I saw two movies treating this subject. The delightful Antoinette dans les Cevennes (English title: My Donkey, My Lover and I) is about an elementary school teacher having an affair with one of the parents. They are supposed to go off on a holiday escapade, but at the last minute the guy informs her that he has to go on a trek on the Stevenson trail with his wife and daughter in the Cevennes. She signs up for the trek without telling him and what has to happen ends up happening... She has a lot of trouble with her donkey but discovers that he will walk along with her with no problem as long she talks about her romantic problems.
The décor is fabulous and will make many more people want to go on this trek.
Meanwhile, Les choses qu'on dit, les choses qu'on fait ("The Things We Say, The Things We do") is the quintessential French film about relationships. Every single couple is unfaithful but they all have qualms about it. Even though they all succumb to their desires, they feel guilty while the wronged party more or less accepts the situation. The story is told with a number of flashbacks to illustrate how the situations were seen from different eyes.
Once again, the scenery is spectacular, which should interest people even if they don't care about the vagaries of the French heart.
And of course the main point of these movies is that nothing is ever cut and dried and there is no such thing as a totally happy ending.
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Post by htmb on Sept 18, 2020 18:18:54 GMT
I love the actress who plays Antoinette in the first film. That looks very appealing, with lots of physical comedy (making it easier for someone with my lack of French to understand).
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 18, 2020 19:12:29 GMT
She is one of the stars of 10% (Call My Agent).
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Post by htmb on Sept 18, 2020 19:46:54 GMT
Noémie
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Post by kerouac2 on May 4, 2021 17:10:49 GMT
Seeing this trailer of Jacques Tati's Playtime (1967) again made me crave seeing it again.
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