For those of you that like French film
 

Check out "À la folie... pas du tout" (He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not). It is a couple years old but I just now got done watching it. I was suprised that I liked it as much as I did as the trailer wasn't fantastic. It has a Audrey Tautou (Amile) in it. For my money she is one of the most beautiful women in any cinema.

Anyway, I know there are a few fellow lovers of world cinema here so hopefully someone gets something form this post :)

I loved her in Amélie Poulain :)

Check out La Haine.

And L'appartement.

And Le grand bleu.

Cheers!

Another great French film is "Delicatessen"

Yeah, and city of lost children.

La Haine has been on my Blockbuster rental list for ages.

Agred..I enjoyed it.

Tho Jean De Le Florette still is tops of my list.

French movies rock, with a glass of wine, in the dark. Love that shit

I plan to do that in about six weeks. Care to join me?

Sounds good. I will be there :winkwink: What about some fire too, and share a blanket :)

i love l'appartement. :)

by the way check out

Un long dimanche de fiançailles (A Very Long Engagement). nice love story.

you might check some Jean-Pierre Jeunet (director of amelie) films. Delicatessen is very wicked!

Okay..so the next film I put on is Spanish - called Butterfly Tongues - and is a ton better than the French film. Very enchanting, very beautiful.

Irreversible. It is not a Audrey Tautou movie but it is a great strong french movie (Monica Bellucci at her best).

French cinema as a whole, excluding a few notable exceptions, has become rather dull and monotonous over the past few decades. Generic "art films" with no real artistic or philosophical value whatsoever have mostly replaced genuine experimental film, turning French cinema into a bland and repetitive farce. Like the French economy, it just lacks that creative spark that makes films fun.
Ofcourse, if you don't watch many films, it isn't all that bad, because the concepts and dialogues being repeated over and over again in slightly different forms are fairly good. The lack of originality only becomes really offensive when you are exposed to it too often. It's a sad fact that one who wants to watch some original and authentic French films is still best off with the likes of Godard and Renoir.

Amélie Poulain is a great movie

Well, that is much the same with any nation's cinema. I watch a lot of world cinema and each nation/region ahs its own style and when their films become popular they sometimes sit back and go into autopilot. Hollywood being the prime example, of course. Also, each nation has its good and bad. I have seen some truly bland French films and some fantatic French films. I have noticed lately that their are a lot more 'traditional' films than art films reaching the world cinema market from France. This one was sort of a mix of an art film and a traditional film and it worked for me.

btw..I still say that South/Central America is the most exciting region for cinema at the moment.

Jean Renior would grimace at that....

I met him a couple of times just before he died.

That movie was just great ... aiin't nothing else like it

hey L'appartement was the one that starred Monica Belucci and was adapted in Hollywood as Wicker Park with Josh Hartnett. I have not seen the French movie yet. anway, Amelie was a very good film.

Obviously you haven't seen my latest movie. Its called "Amélie Putain"

huh? link?

Sounds great. Does it have loads of erotic scenes? :winkwink:

Ayoye hehehehehehe

youd think so...check this movie if you liked amelie...
you'll love it
" A Very Long Engagement "
Audrey Tautou has the leading role.

Irréversible and Haute tension, very tasteful movies worth watching!

and shit how could i have forgotten: Man Bites Dog

I love French films, can't wait to check it out.

Thx for the suggestion :thumbsup

yeah jas, each one of those 3 is worth a watch!
irreversible is a bit harsh though!

LOL ....

Do you have any idea of how many " so called " american films are actually remake of french films ???? No, I'm not talking about " Dumb & Dumber" or " Spider man " .... that's is pure american.....

Now, Renoir & Godard are great, and it some happens that they obtain notoriety in the US, so you mention them...

But what about Tavernier, Labro, Renais, Varda, Sautet, and so on ....

Here is some GREAT FRENCH FILMS!!!!

But sadly, for the most part, I have to agree with your assesment of French Cinema.

More often then not, it is one LONG and DULL art flick that doesn't really go anywhere.
What I'm hooked on is Japanese cinema! And I don't mean the damn kung fu movies.

Hollywood should be shot (yes, I know you can't shoot a town) for some of the remakes of French movies...not the least being Taxi. My god.

My flatmate is majorly into Japanese and Chinese cinema so I have seen a lot over the last year or so. Japanese cinema is suffering from the same Hollywood remake syndrome as French cinema has in the past. The Japanese do 'creepy' horror very well and it just gets destroyed when Hollywood glosses it up.