kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4881 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish
| Message 17 of 21 23 July 2014 at 8:51pm | IP Logged |
I can definitely relate to that sketch sometimes!
I actually saw Les parapluies de Cherbourg at a special screening at a film festival,
hosted by some critic whose name I've forgotten. I was excited, because it's a hard film
to find in the States and I had read so much about it. At the end of the screening I
realized that half the audience had discretely left, but the ones who remained were in
love with the film & spent the rest of the evening gushing over the details with the
critic.
I did think that the beginning and ending scenes were amazing; I just didn't think there
was much of a film in between them.
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juman Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5210 days ago 101 posts - 129 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: French
| Message 18 of 21 25 July 2014 at 1:19pm | IP Logged |
These movies are maybe not in the category of great but at least I found them entertaining as I like action movies :
Taxi 1-4
Banlieue 13 + Banlieue 13 Ultimatum
Not really action but more thriller :
Les rivières pourpres 1 + 2
Ne le dis à personne
Enjoy! :-)
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montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4820 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh
| Message 19 of 21 25 July 2014 at 2:47pm | IP Logged |
kanewai wrote:
I can definitely relate to that sketch sometimes!
I actually saw Les parapluies de Cherbourg at a special screening at a film festival,
hosted by some critic whose name I've forgotten. I was excited, because it's a hard
film
to find in the States and I had read so much about it. At the end of the screening I
realized that half the audience had discretely left, but the ones who remained were in
love with the film & spent the rest of the evening gushing over the details with the
critic.
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I'm also in love with that film (all of it). I first saw it on (UK) TV, and later on, I
requested that a nearby French cultrural centre showed it at one of their regular
screenings of French film, and fortunately, they did.
I was therefore shocked when quite a lot of the audience left (not particularly
discreetly), although I think more than half stayed, and presumably liked it.
Clearly it works for some people and not others!
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oziohume Bilingual Hexaglot Newbie Belgium Joined 4730 days ago 30 posts - 43 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, Catalan, Italian, French, German Studies: Dutch
| Message 20 of 21 06 August 2014 at 3:49am | IP Logged |
For me the best French film of the recent past is Holy Motors. All hail the weirdness!
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LeadZeppelin Diglot Groupie United States Joined 5013 days ago 59 posts - 85 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish
| Message 21 of 21 02 January 2015 at 8:39pm | IP Logged |
Les Intouchables
Les Bronzés Font Du Ski
I swear you won't regret watching either.
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