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| fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4718 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese | Message 49 of 60 20 February 2012 at 4:09am | IP Logged | ||
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I've said it already in my Log page, but I'll just copy it here:
My next step is translating the Dutch subtitles for my favorite Dutch film (and now definitely one of my favorites of all time!!!), "Komt Een Vrouw Bij de Dokter". It's based on an "autobiographical" novel about a monofobic man that lives happily with his wife and daughter (and some others girls out of marriage), and suddenly they discover that his wife has cancer, and now he has to deal with it. I must have told it already, but that's the movie I cried the most in my whole life =P 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Everything Diglot Groupie France Joined 4704 days ago 87 posts - 167 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 50 of 60 26 February 2012 at 11:09am | IP Logged | ||
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German : 23 - Nichts ist so wie es scheint
Korean : Going by the Book 바르게 살자 Thai : Citizen Dog หมานคร Japanese : Battle Royale バトル・ロワイアル Spanish : Amores Perros French : Princes et Princesses Edited by Everything on 26 February 2012 at 11:09am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| morinkhuur Triglot Groupie Germany Joined 4680 days ago 79 posts - 157 votes Speaks: German*, Latin, English Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Maghribi) | Message 51 of 60 01 March 2012 at 9:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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Some of my favourites are:
Spanish: El laberinto del fauno/Pan's Labyrinth (excellent movie - watch it!) French and Arabic: Incendies (very realistic portrayal of arab culture and of war) Arabic, Japanese, Spanish and English (a must for any foreign language enthusiast): Babel German (technically not a foreign language for me, but i guess you meant non-English movies): Kirschblüten - Hanami (has some Japanese, too; also many parts are in Bavarian dialect and the whole movie is extremely sad, but also very beautiful and it shows a pretty typical German family) Der Untergang Das Leben der Anderen Russian, Swedish: Lilya 4-ever (very depressing and sometimes hard to watch, not for everyone) Japanese: Letters from Iwo Jima (American director but the movie's entirely in Japanese, gives great insights into WW2 from a different perspective) Mononoke Hime (from the great Hayao Miyazaki; Anime) French: La fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (everyone is probably familiar with this one) Edited by morinkhuur on 01 March 2012 at 9:27pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Christine Diglot Groupie Germany Joined 6629 days ago 41 posts - 47 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Japanese, Modern Hebrew | Message 52 of 60 03 March 2012 at 4:45am | IP Logged | ||
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I can't yet contribute much to this thread because the only foreign language I know well enough to watch movies in is English. But someone has brought up multilingual films, and there are two I watched so far and really like. I included links to Wikipedia for details, but beware of spoilers. ;-)
- L'auberge espagnole (mainly French and a handful of others, but don't nail me down to the extent of the latter, it's been a while since I watched it. It's about a French student spending a year in Barcelona and sharing a flat with a handful of rather chaotic students from all across Europe. There is also a sequel called "Les poupées russes", but it isn't as good as the first one and I can't remember if it is multilingual as well or French only. And by checking out the Wikipedia article above I just found out that yet another sequel is in post-production.) - Walk on Water (Hebrew, German, and English, including English with a strong German accent. This is about a Mossad agent trying to hunt down a former Nazi criminal by befriending his grandchildren; among the issues covered are present-day Israeli-German relations, friendship, homosexuality, and guilt. I also really liked another movie by the same director, Eytan Fox - "The Bubble" (haBuah), but I had to watch this one in German since the original audio is exclusively Hebrew.) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Loperamida Bilingual Diglot Newbie SpainRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4585 days ago 24 posts - 24 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan* Studies: English, French | Message 53 of 60 13 May 2012 at 10:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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In Spanish: -celda 211
- un franco 14 pesetas 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Gosiak Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5129 days ago 241 posts - 361 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, German Studies: Norwegian, Welsh | Message 54 of 60 13 May 2012 at 11:13pm | IP Logged | ||
This made me laugh. I think Zeruiah meant Goodbye Lenin, great film. Lenin/Lennon, who would notice the difference :D 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4831 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 55 of 60 03 June 2012 at 12:57am | IP Logged | ||
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I can't say we get too many Norwegian films here in England, but our local "arthouse"
recently showed "The Headhunters"|"Hodejegerne" which I thought was excellent. A sort of blackly comic thriller, based on a Jo Nesbø book. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Gallo1801 Diglot Senior Member Spain Joined 4905 days ago 164 posts - 248 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Arabic (Written), Croatian, German, French | Message 56 of 60 03 June 2012 at 1:27am | IP Logged | ||
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XXY - An argentine film about an intersex girl and the weekend that a friend of her
father's and his family visit their Uruguayan coastal home. Lots of interesting events unfold. This isn't a genre film either, but is a very interesting bildungsroman as well as a critique on how we identify ourselves. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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