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I saw Le Fils this week and is the best film of the year. so far.

― Erik, Sunday, 13 April 2003 11:40 (twenty-three years ago)

"I see...you have a cabbage...."

"......oui."

― Joe (Joe), Sunday, 13 April 2003 13:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I won't delve into the classics, that would take too much time, but here's some hits and misses from the nineties and the naughties. For a couple of them, I've also included links for my reviews in the Internet Movie Database.

SEARCH:

Political films
La Haine
Ressources humaines
Seul contre tous

Action
Dobermann
Léon

Drama
L'Humanité
http://us.imdb.com/CommentsShow?0197569-12
Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train
Corto Maltese: La cour secrète des Arcanes http://us.imdb.com/CommentsShow?0259134-1
La Pianiste
L'Appartement
La Classe de neige

Comedy
Drôle de Félix
Delicatessen
Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
Mortel transfert
Du poil sous les roses
Pourquoi pas moi?

Art Stuff
La Belle noiseuse
Clubbed to Death
Beau travail
http://us.imdb.com/CommentsShow?0209933-9

DESTROY:

Art Shit
Sombre
Irréversible
Trouble Every Day

Bad Drama
Post coitum animal triste
Parfait amour!
Rien sur Robert

Stupid Action
Les Mille merveilles de l'univers
Les Rivières pourpres
Le Pacte des loups (the worst French film ever?)
http://us.imdb.com/CommentsShow?0237534-48

Few brief recommendations: Ressources humaines, a leftist film about a factory worker father and a lawyer son, is one of the films of the nineties. Dobermann is probably the most nihilistic and brutal action film ever made this side of The Atlantic. La Pianiste, the story about a sexually frustrated piano teacher, is extremely difficult to watch, but definitely worth the view. Mortel transfert is a Kafkaesque black comedy about a psychoanalyst and his dead patient. La Belle noiseuse, a four-hour story about the making of one painting, is the slowest film ever, but also one of the most hypnotic.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 14 April 2003 08:29 (twenty-three years ago)

rafifi

― cameron, Monday, 14 April 2003 10:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: The Dream Life of Angels

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 14 April 2003 14:22 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

I liked that film.

destroy: the UK cut of 'a ma souer', in order to be granted an 18 certificate, loses 1m 30s off the end of the film, somewhat obscuring the power of anais' final claim that he didn't rape her.

'la maman et la putain' is showing in the cinema here today.

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 3 October 2004 08:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Odd that this thread appeared today - I watched Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie this morning. I liked it a lot, actually. I think I might watch Man Bites Dog next.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Sunday, 3 October 2004 08:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Les Enfants Du Paradis / Children of Paradise!

― Remy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 3 October 2004 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Ok, not French but still, saw 'Les Invasions Barbares' the other night. Despite the weird - kinda cheesy cliches, it moved me quite a bit (might have sth to do with my own worries about my father...)

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Sunday, 3 October 2004 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Confidences trop intimes Ignore with extreme prejudice. The film, that is.

― EComplex (EComplex), Monday, 4 October 2004 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Tell me more about Ophuls.

― Tous Les Garcons S'Appellent Little Lord Travolta (nordicskilla), Monday, 4 October 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

he was viennese

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Monday, 4 October 2004 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Rien sur Robert

oh haha! i loved this movie. it had a hilarious line about abal sex.

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 4 October 2004 01:06 (twenty-one years ago)

anal.

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 4 October 2004 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

S: Chris Marker (especially everything he ever did), early Michel Gondry videos and The Transporter

D: I dunno, I hate to be the 838253rd person to diss Amelie. But I guess I just did.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 4 October 2004 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I've seen Jeanne Dielman a third time since my earlier posts on this thread.

― Roy Williams Highlight (diamond), Monday, 4 October 2004 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

and of course it was just as great, riveting, beautiful, etc.

― Roy Williams Highlight (diamond), Monday, 4 October 2004 01:17 (twenty-one years ago)

SEARCH FRENCH NOIR/GANGSTER:

Jean-Pierre Melville - Bob le Flameur, Le Samurai, Le Cercle Rouge

Jacques Becker- Touches pas au Grisbi

Jules Dassin - Rififi

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 4 October 2004 01:41 (twenty-one years ago)

tell me more about Ophuls and the films he made in france.

― Tous Les Garcons S'Appellent Little Lord Travolta (nordicskilla), Monday, 4 October 2004 01:46 (twenty-one years ago)

jeanne dielman is belgian (albeit, in french)

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Monday, 4 October 2004 02:30 (twenty-one years ago)

all of ophul's post-american films were made in france. lola montes was i believe a french-german coproduction.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Monday, 4 October 2004 02:31 (twenty-one years ago)

search: sur mes levres, tous les garcons s'appellent patrick

― youn, Monday, 4 October 2004 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)

search: hiroshima mon amour, vivre sa vie, cleo from 5 to 7, rules of the game, EVERYTHING TATI, rififi was good, children of paradise...
four of those films are in my top ten of all time. bande a part is good too, i am guilty of liking le mepris too.

destroy: irreversible (piece of trash)

― todd swiss (eliti), Monday, 4 October 2004 03:08 (twenty-one years ago)

French film as a whole just begs to be put on an overrated list, even though there are plenty of good French films.

I like Truffaut flicks.
Destroy Goddard.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 4 October 2004 03:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I would like to go to a Paris cafe and drink all the drinks that they drink in Tous les garcons s'appellent Patrick, but not on one occasion.

― youn, Monday, 4 October 2004 03:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I liked Aime ton Pere.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 4 October 2004 03:25 (twenty-one years ago)

god french cinema is so great.

― cºzen (Cozen), Monday, 4 October 2004 11:15 (twenty-one years ago)

that was an actual address to god, a thank you.

― cºzen (Cozen), Monday, 4 October 2004 11:15 (twenty-one years ago)

i won't be held responsible for emmanuelle

― god (amateurist), Monday, 4 October 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Search:
LeTrou
Rules of the Game

Destroy:
People walking on the beach in abject silence, then becoming naked and weeping.

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 4 October 2004 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Search: Jean Kenneth Longueur's Le Fromage Grand

― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 5 October 2004 07:58 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

http://www.francecinema.it/polar/gabin1b.jpg

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 3 February 2005 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I like it better when you can see her cul.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 3 February 2005 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

there is something sublime about that still. i mean, you're never in doubt that gabin will be able to resist bardot, but at the same time... those legs!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 3 February 2005 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

It's all in the arch of her foot, I think.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 3 February 2005 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

i feel a little lightheaded.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 3 February 2005 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

omg

http://bedazzled.blogs.com/bedazzled/2005/01/ne_dis_rien.html

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 3 February 2005 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i mean

http://bedazzled.blogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/nedisrien1968.jpg

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 3 February 2005 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, for god's sake.

http://www.gaycitynews.com/gcn220/awoman.jpg

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 3 February 2005 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Indeed. But how about this?
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Metro/9384/films/celine_et_julie/set_small.jpg

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 3 February 2005 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

there is something sublime about that still. i mean, you're never in doubt that gabin will be able to resist bardot, but at the same time... those legs!

What I find delicious in that scene is that, while Gabin may be able to resist her, I know I would not.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 3 February 2005 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

http://retorta.typepad.com/blog/images/marienbad-thumb.jpg

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 3 February 2005 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://frenchfilms.topcities.com/1936_Un_roman_d_un_tricheur.jpg

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 3 February 2005 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.france.co.kr/cinema/Bardot1.jpg

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 3 February 2005 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

http://garzanda.club.fr/artistes1940/photos/michelle_morgan.jpg

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 3 February 2005 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Somebody I know claims to have met Michelle Morgan in recent times.

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 3 February 2005 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.codicil.fr/images/images/jouvet.jpg

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 3 February 2005 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

is that jouvet?

http://www.archivioimmaginicinema.com/mireille_balin.jpg

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 3 February 2005 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes.

xpost

http://www.saturn-soft.net/RR/Countries/France/Photos/Gerard.jpg

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 3 February 2005 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.saturn-soft.net/RR/Countries/France/Photos/signoret.jpg

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 3 February 2005 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

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