The 'French Film' thread

[MattBackHome]

Of those mentioned I've only seen A Prophet and Delicatessen, both of which I love.

Thanks all - I'll dig out the others.

 

[Meade's Ball]

Yeah, it was just the original "French Film" thread turned into a World Cinema thread.

Perfectly reasonable.
In which case, one of the first names that springs to mind is Hirokazu Koreeda. Love that director. And Asghar Farhadi. Need to see the Salesman again when it's out soon.

 

[Prince Monolulu]

Well, if we're going WORLD route then this is stunning.

 

[pearl]

Elisa
Jean de Florette
Manon des Sources

 

[Rodney Thomas]

La Haine... A truly brilliant film!

 

[brakespear]

Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot

 

[Normal Rob]

The Horde - fantastic cops/gangster/zombie movie.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1183276/mediaviewer/rm210503680?ref_=tt_ov_i

 

[Jospeh]

Deux jours, une nuit

It has Hollywood's Marion Cotillard in it and she is excellent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Days,_One_Night

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Pepe Le Moko is a classic as well

 

[Yes Chef]

https://youtu.be/0V8ZJ_8qARs

It's a cheesy trailer but a top film

 

[SuperBrighton]

La Haine... A truly brilliant film!

Completely agree, highly recommend!

 

[glasfryn]

The Green Mares Nest
Rififi
bit old but still very good

 

[Boys 9d]

I remember the days when it was possible to regularly see such films at cinemas in Brighton. The two being the Continental in Kemp Town and the Paris in New Road.
The down side was that in those days if people knew you were a patron you were usually considered to be someone going to hard porn shows even though the sex in the films (if present) was very low key.

 

[cheshunt seagull]

Anything with Sandrine Bonnaire works for me like 'Monsieur Hire'. Agree about 'La Haine'.

 

[Questions]

https://youtu.be/0V8ZJ_8qARs

It's a cheesy trailer but a top film

Really good film. Thought it would be cheesy as well but incredibly uplifting.

 

[portlock seagull]

https://youtu.be/0V8ZJ_8qARs

It's a cheesy trailer but a top film

By far the best film Ive seen in the past few years, French or not. Everyone I've introduced to it has LOVED it too. Why the feck we don't show quality films like this in our cinemas is beyond me when we've got 8 screens showing the same latest marvel comic pap Hulk versus Dan Dare VI etc with row upon row of empty seats...

Slight man-crush on Omar Sy when watched this too He's THAT good! Brilliant Brilliant film. Damned funny. Damned sad. Beautifully told. No wonder it smashed records all over Europe. No wonder Little England never showed it...

 

[Paskman]

Cyrano de Bergerac avec Gérard Depardieu. Complete with subtitles by Anthony Burgess [emoji106] all of it pure genius [emoji106][emoji106][emoji106]
https://youtu.be/ab6eaj4fdMA

 

[The Lemming Stomper]

Sublime film

 

[vegster]

Jaques Tati - Mon Oncle....... Thread closed ?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE9t98Gox60

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

In my book, you can't beat a bit of Fanny