French film

[Nibble]

cool, looking forward

 

[Socky]

Le Gout Des Autres. Excellent film.

 

[aftershavedave]

cool, looking forward

includes the immortal exchange:

<<Vous avez vu, c'est un Anglais ! Un Anglais ! J'les aime pas, moi, les Anglais ! Vous les aimez, vous, les Anglais ?! [Ben oui !]
[Faisant des grimaces et tics nerveux] Bah moi j'les aime pas !>>

 

[Spider]

Jean Pierre Melville is really good. Especially check out Army in the Shadows and Le Doulos. Bob le Flambeur is also very good and Le Cercle Rouge is supposed to be amazing but I haven't seen it. Well worth a watch as he has been very influential on people like Tarantino and Michael Mann.

 

[Gwylan]

Bob le Flambeur is also very good ...

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Surprised no-one has mentioned Clouzot's films yet. Les Diaboliques and Le salaire de la peur (Wages of Fear) are both superb

 

[Acker79]

Amelie's good if you're the sort of person who likes Sex and the City. It's bloody awful to the rest of us

Damnit! After all the recommendations I bought it in the sale for £3. Still not watched it in over a year, but now feel even that low price is a waste.

 

[Spider]

Damnit! After all the recommendations I bought it in the sale for £3. Still not watched it in over a year, but now feel even that low price is a waste.

Nah don't listen to him it's a very good film. It's a little bit cheesy but it's still very imaginative, and it's absolutely nothing like Sex and the City.

 

[Gwylan]

Damnit! After all the recommendations I bought it in the sale for £3. Still not watched it in over a year, but now feel even that low price is a waste.

I thought it was soppy romantic slush - unbelievably silly, Two hours of my life I won't get back

I don't mind some romantic films - Les Enfants du Paradis is about an eternal triangle, yet is one of the best films ever made - but Amelie is cinematic chick-lit


EDIT:Spider, I didn't say it was like SATC, I said that people who liked SATC would like Amelie

 

[aftershavedave]

Nah don't listen to him it's a very good film. It's a little bit cheesy but it's still very imaginative[/I].

agree with all that

 

[Albumen]

Frontiers
Martyrs

both good French horrors.

36 - great police drama (on BBC4 the other night)

The French film industry is possibly the best in the world. It's strong due to massive backing and theres a cap on foreign film showing in the cinemas. Something like there must be more French than foreign films being shown at the multiplexes.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Is this any good?

 

[Spun Cuppa]

I watched 'Monseiur Hire' the other night, which was great, with a nice twist at the end...

 

[Meade's Ball]

Ok everyone should watch The Wages of Fear. Holy moley, an immaculate film of deep tensions. It's just the simple tale of men desperate for money transporting an explosive nitroglycerine across the winding and hilly roads of south America. It's so bloody nervewracking despite it just being men sweating in cabs and watching out for the potholes that might end them all.
It kinds of sounds like a combination of Speed and a double-episode of Diagnosis Murder, but it's done by Herni Georges Clouzot, whose work is visually strange and intense at times. Buddy brilliant.

Also, this week i saw Leaving at le cinema. A good film. The break-up of a relationship, unsurprisingly, and the fiscal price of Kristin Scott Thomas finding love elsewhere. It opens with a gunshot, and then works it way to that moment of undoubted death for someone. Quite romantic behind the trauma, Thomas telling her new ex-convict man that it's the happiest day of her life whilst he possibly says something similar in catalan. Moving.

 

[Evil Edna]

Irreversible

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[defrocked priest]

Have a peek at any of the titles with Emmanuelle.

 

[Eric Potts]

Belleville Rendezvous is very enjoyable , and also topical

 

[1066familyman]

Belleville Rendezvous is very enjoyable , and also topical

Agreed. Classic piece of animation

 

[1066familyman]

As a teenager having successfully won the case for having a tv in my bedroom, channel 4 was in it's infancy and nothing like the conventional rubbish that it is now. I remember being well happy stumbling across this late one night

Pauline at the Beach (1983)

Probably cringe to watch it now, but it's a film title that I've never forgotten.

 

[User Removed]

'Inside' makes pleasant viewing.

 

[Beach Hut]

Frontiers
Martyrs

both good French horrors.

36 - great police drama (on BBC4 the other night)

The French film industry is possibly the best in the world. It's strong due to massive backing and theres a cap on foreign film showing in the cinemas. Something like there must be more French than foreign films being shown at the multiplexes.

I'll go with that 36 was a superb film, very atmospheric and violent