French films are shit. Porquoi?

it means that you never can quite tell when you should pronounce the "t" at the ends of french words

did you see the movie?

Jacques Audiard - A Prophet

POLTERGAY
POLTERGAY
POLTERGAY

"saying anything" about the human condition or what have you

i think it was, specific to france, where the identities and slow integration of algerian/muslim/old school french communities is subject for debate.

POLTERGAY is the best film ever! And it is French! And has French Gay Ghosts from the Seventies!

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it's not a "transcend" genre, except maybe for the subtle use of surrealism, but it's a perfect version of the genre imo
Scorsese and Taramtino will probably never offer a new perfect crime movie again, and Audiard simply takes their place with this movie.
i think it's better than the flashy,pointless and now banal shots in Goodfellas for example,it is a much more authentic effort, thats all.

trailer for godard's new(last?) 'socialisme' worth seeing, with alain badiou reprising the karina role from pierrot le fou (maybe)

alain badiou reprising the karina role

if this is true, and godard has made a elderly gay man road movie (is belmondo even alive?), than that'd be something.

sea movie, aptly

saw Chereau's Persecution, excellent work from unkempt Gallic god Romain Duris at his most Brandoesque. He and C Gainsbourgh have a nice long fucking scene, and there's an offbeat gay stalker element.

Looks forward to Varda season at BFI

Maybe something like Les Creatures?

Will finally get to see Cleo from 5 to 7

anyone see 'Mic Macs' yet?? looks awesome

i really, really didn't like Mic Macs

Has anyone here seen Agnes Varda's "Mur Murs"? What did you think about it?

Might have to see that -- looking for the underrated ones like Lions Love.

I saw Duelle yesterday. Some laughed hilariously. Can anyone tell me about the references to other films? Only if it is not tedious.

Regarding the collaboration with Lubchansky and what little I've read about it, i'd say that visual splendor was a good thing for Rivette and that it is a good thing for this visual splendor to be separated from the auteur, but maybe this is only because I only have enough imagination to believe in the duality of mind and body, which no one believes anymore, but in a way that turns everything mechanistic and not into art, which can't be one and the same, right?

Plus live subtitles / translations, like at the United Nations.

Claude Chabrol RIP.

he was one of the greatest.

first Rhomer and now Chabrol -> Rivette and Godard - take care!

Oh no! One of my favorites. NO.

Have liked a few of his films, but never really understood claims on greatness.

siding with morbs on this one

crazy talk^

The Butcher could easily be a great Hitchcock film, for example.

there's an awful lot of good Hitchcock imitators tho who don't get the same regard.

I like the Chabrol films I know plenty, but he isn't very auteur-y imo and this might be a reason to not regard him as a "great" whatever that's all about

first of all - he is more than hitch imitator.

2nd - if only "original" directors would be regarded as great - the list will be shortened to a maximum 10 persons.

i like 'le boucher' best -- i haven't seen every last one, obviously, but then i haven't felt compelled to.

Crazy talk, indeed. When Chabrol was "on" as a director - which was most of his career in my opinion and I've watched just about any Chabrol I could get my hands on, legally and illegally - when you felt he was digging his material then the results were some remarkable films. "Nada" or "The Unfaithful Wife" or "La Ceremonie", for example, are the work of a master filmmaker - hence a "great". And much more than a Hitchcock imitator.

horshima mon amoour

not a french film per se, but i just watched Jessica Hausner's Lourdes.

wow, one of the best things ive seen lately.

french film festival this week... what should I see

3 p'tits cochons (3 Little Pigs)
DIRECTED BY Patrick Huard
Québec | 2008 | 124 mn

L'Arnacœur (Heartbreaker)
DIRECTED BY Pascal Chaumeil
France | 2010 | 105 mn

L'armée du crime (The Army of Crime)
DIRECTED BY Robert Guédiguian
France | 2009 | 139 mn

Barbe bleue (Bluebeard)
DIRECTED BY Catherine Breillat
France | 2009 | 139 mn

Un capitalisme sentimental (A Sentimental Capitalism)
DIRECTED BY Olivier Asselin
Québec | 2008 | 92 mn

Les doigts croches (Sticky Fingers)
DIRECTED BY Ken Scott
Québec | 2009 | 108 mn

Gainsbourg, vie héroïque (Gainsbourg)
DIRECTED BY Joan Sfar
France | 2010 | 135 mn

Les herbes folles (Wild Grass)
DIRECTED BY Alain Resnais
France | 2009 | 104 mn

Hitler à Hollywood (Hitler in Hollywood)
DIRECTED BY Frédéric Sojcher
France- Belgium | 2010 | 95 mn

Un homme qui crie (A screaming Man)
DIRECTED BY Mahamat Saleh Haroun
France - Belgium - Chad | 2010 | 80 mn

Il a suffi que Maman s'en aille (When Mother went away)
DIRECTED BY René Féret
France | 2007 | 90 mn

Illégal
DIRECTED BY Olivier Masset-Depasse
France - Belgium - Luxemburg | 2010 | 95 mn

Liberté (Korkoro)
DIRECTED BY Tony Gatlif
France | 2010 | 111 mn

Maman est chez le coiffeur (Mommy's at the Hairdresser)
DIRECTED BY Léa Pool
Québec| 2008 | 97 mn

Orpailleur (Galimpeiro)
DIRECTED BY Marc Barrat
France | 2010 | 90 mn

Le petit Nicolas (Little Nicolas)
DIRECTED BY Laurent Tirard
France | 2010 | 90 mn

Potiche
DIRECTED BY François Ozon
France | 2010 | 110 mn

La rafle (The Round-up)
DIRECTED BY Rose Bosch
France | 2010 | 115 mn

I'm thinking the breillat maybe?

c'mon where are the cinemaphiliacs

L'Arnacœur - great pun btw.

idgi

L'arnaqueur could translate to something like 'con artist' or rip-off artist but they spelled with coeur 'heart' instead. I'm at pains to think of something equivalent in English. 'Griefter' is stretching it a little but maybe it works w/a comedy French accent.

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I thought Wild Grass was fine but waaaaaay overrated. The Resnais before it (Private Fears...) was much better.

I loved the Gainsbourg biopic so - that.

Lumiere are doing a mini-Chabrol fest. I'm no fan however This Man Must Die looks promising

Anyone seen Two in the Wave. Probably wait for BBC4 to broadcast that one.

I just finished watching it about two minutes ago. Worth watching on BBC4, but there's nothing in it that you probably don't already know if you're interested in it. The footage and misc. ephemera is great.

Seraphine is pretty good, even if it can't resist the artists-are-nuts trope. Moreau's addled wandering in the last ten minutes reminded me of Isabelle Adjani's in The Story of Adele H.

This year's "French Cultures Fest" brings a set of 5 recent hit comedies to our MFA this weekend. The first night brought these two highly entertaining (but non-life changing) films:

The French Kissers-A pre-high school sex comedy, with plenty of good-natured scatological humor & such. One thing that impressed me--particularly after years of Hollywood takes on same--was how ugly all of the kids were. They're all pizza & braced-faced dorks--you know, like real kids that age. Emmanuelle Devos & Irene Jacob play the grown-ups (the latter--in a move that shows we're all getting old--appears as a MILF).

Heartbreaker-Romain Duris plays a con man hired to break up Vanessa Paradis' wedding. I'm imagining there's a screenwriter somewhere in Cali busily adapting this as a Bradley Cooper/Anne Hathaway vehicle with even more gratuitous 80s pop culture references (this film ropes in both Dirty Dancing and Wham!).

Saturday brings Potiche & OSS 117: Lost In Rio. Anybody seen the latter? The trailer ran before both movies tonight and it likes kinda like a less doofy Austin Powers. That might not be a good thing.

i really hate this thread title

Lost in Rio not as good as Cairo: Nest of Spies iirc.

Heartbreaker just reminds me that there must be loads of bad French comedies that relentlessly ape Hollywood conventions that are released every year that I never see or hear about. I didn't hate it though.

'Lost in Rio' better than 'Cairo', IMO although of course if you've seen the first the novelty has worn off somehow.

Saw both parts of Mesrine today. Superb, altough pt.1 (Killer Instinct) is a bit better (tighter and less meandering) than pt.2 (Public Enemy #1). Worth a look by fans of Carlos and The Baader Meinhof Complex.

I saw Conte d'Automne today. And it was all I could do to stay awake.

i wouldnt rave about coco chanel