The 'French Film' thread

[TotallyFreaked]

both great films

 

[miffy6]

Angel-A http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0473753/
Respire http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3365778/

 

[Sergio Garcia]

Mesrine - Killer Instinct

 

[T soprano]

The French connection (gene hackman)

 

[Yes Chef]

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...

I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiment about multiplex, coca cola, banal, generic Hollywood, product placing, action figure shite.
I'm also very lucky that about 200 metres from my flat in Chichester is a small arthouse cinema called New Park where I watched 'The Intouchables'. If you're out west then I recommend it, plus they have a selection of Harveys ales that you can drink in the cinema. You have to sort the wheat from the chaff depending on how abstract and arty you want, but it is undoubtedly one of my favourite places to go on a day off.

 

[Lush]

Cyrano de Bergerac avec Gérard Depardieu. Complete with subtitles by Anthony Burgess [emoji106] all of it pure genius [emoji106][emoji106][emoji106]

Loved this recent column by Clive James (yes he's still with us! Hoorah!) about the appeal of Gerard Depardieu.

Sample quote - "His nose once looked like a pair of lorries parked side by side, but now the lorries are the size of trains"

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeand...gerard-depardieu-marseille-television-netflix

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Mesrine - Killer Instinct

The first part was very good. Second part not so

 

[Normandy seagull]

this is a quality french cop film

 

[Normandy seagull]

this is not bad either

 

[half time scores]

Lesser known Depardieu film COLONEL CHABERT Gérard stars as Colonel Chabert, in Yves Angelo's film based on the Balzac novel about the changes brought to French society by revolution. Also starinng Fanny Ardant and Fabrice Luchini.

Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet collaborations Delicatessen, and La cité des enfants perdus, (The City of Lost Children)
And no French film thread can be complete without Amélie.

I did see a French Film, couple of years ago, but for the life of me I cannot remember the name,
It was about a Pterodactyl in Paris!!

 

[Prince Monolulu]

I did see a French Film, couple of years ago, but for the life of me I cannot remember the name,
It was about a Pterodactyl in Paris!!

I saw one similar once, called 'There's a Rhino Loose in the City'.

 

[vegster]

Loved this recent column by Clive James (yes he's still with us! Hoorah!) about the appeal of Gerard Depardieu.

Sample quote - "His nose once looked like a pair of lorries parked side by side, but now the lorries are the size of trains"

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeand...gerard-depardieu-marseille-television-netflix

You can still find some of his collected television reviews for The Observer many years back. Visions Before Midnight and The Crystal Bucket are two I recall. He has a legendary ability when it comes to the written word and his description of The Incredible Hulk played by Lou Feringo will always stay with me

...." Hulk has two sets of shoulder blades, one on top of the other with the effect that his arms hang out from his sides as if his armpits had piles....... Hulk does his " Action " scenes at glacial speed yet no matter how slowly he runs, the bad guys run slower ! he finally catches the bad guys and with a supreme act of lethargy throws them through the side of the nearest barn."

 

[marlowe]

Does a "French film" necessarily have to be in French? If not this has all the other credentials, French production, French director and French leading man. I recommend Luc Besson's English language film "Leon."

 

[Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews]

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I love Jean Reno, I watched Ronin again the other night for the 73rd time!

Anyway as I stated in one of the opening posts, there was a thread a few years back titled "French Film" but my search proved fruitless, it was a great thread that quickly became a World Cinema thread, so you're safe from the NSC police. Keep them film recommendations coming

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

Emmanuelle Seigner

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

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

Bloody French, no table manners!

 

[Mr Banana]

Betty Blue. I'm just a mute potato with arms but diddle my skiddle, what I wouldn't give to be a raffish Frenchman living in a beach house au bord de la mer with her, drinking wine every night and mincing about. Every scene an artwork as well.

La Haine is the nuts as well, goes without saying. Puts me right in the mood to be a stylish street type en provence, easily recreated down the mean streets of Hove

 

[half time scores]

Emmanuelle Seigner

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

Watching that makes me feel as though the stuff my ex Mrs hts put in my tea may be wearing off!
Wonder if Madam palm & her five lovely daughters are free?

I saw one similar once, called 'There's a Rhino Loose in the City'.

I've remembered, it is called The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec. Worth a view.

 

[portlock seagull]

Ok, anyone like crime drama then this one, based on real events, is very good. Extremely stylish too, felt like the 1970s throughout in a non-faux way. Entitled 'The Connection' in English.

https://youtu.be/AELNPQcR6lE

 

[Acker79]

If you're after a little fantasy adventure, I'd say The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1179025/?ref_=nv_sr_5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6djPGS3RCA

(very brief nsfw moment in that trailer, fleeting)

If you're after period mystery drama, I like Brotherhood of the Wolf
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0237534/?ref_=nv_sr_1

https://youtu.be/D7DTv2uBA7I

(again, fleeting nsfw glimpses. Also, yes, that is the iron chef)

If you're after something new, a coming of age body horror, there's Raw which is out this April. I saw it as part of the cinecity festival.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4954522/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

https://youtu.be/udkwT3p28Sw

(red band mainly for blood, the guy who composed the score lives in Brighton!)

If you're after popcorn style action movies, District 13/District 13: Ultimatum
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0414852/?ref_=nv_sr_2
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1247640/?ref_=nv_sr_3

https://youtu.be/suiYQLcrUoI

https://youtu.be/jDDFNpj9xBQ


Honourable mention for Amelie, Micmacs, and Ernest & Celestine, and seconds for many of the others already listed Manon Des Sources, Water Lilies, Les Diabolique and The Intouchables