Pretty much anything by Jean Renoir, Marcel Carne or written by Jacques Prevert or starring Jean Gabin. Favourite example of these classics: La Grande Illusion. Le Jour Se Leve and Quai Des Brumes and Pepe Le Moko need mentioning too.
Vigo's L'Atalante and Zero de Conduite.
all Godard's early films, especially those with Anna Karina. I even like most of his later ones.
Delicatessen and City Of Lost Children
Most of Truffaut's. Celine And Julie Go Boating, too.
Cyrano de Bergerac was great.
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 24 February 2003 20:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
French film is way up its own arse these days, although I loved "La haine" and thought "Amelie" was gneuinely charming.
Special loathing for Eric Rohmer and Last year at Marienbad.
― Tag (Tag), Monday, 24 February 2003 20:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
Hiroshima Mon Amour as well, surely. Godard, all the obvious ones. Sadly I haven't yet explored any of his 80's work. Nouvelle Vague was good though. Malle's Ascenseur pour l'échafaud is good. I also really enjoyed Rivette's La Belle Noiseuse, though I can see why others may not.
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 24 February 2003 21:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 24 February 2003 21:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
ahem.
Search : anything by Bertrand Tavernier.
― Wintermute (Wintermute), Monday, 24 February 2003 21:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
Resnais - now that's pretentious artsy fartsy craft. And I do lurve it so.
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 24 February 2003 21:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
Vive la France!
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 24 February 2003 21:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 24 February 2003 22:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
Cocteau - Testament of Orpheus, Beauty & Beast, Blood of Poet, etc. Renoir - Day in the Country, Grand Illusion, etc.Resnais - Last Year at Marienbad, Hiroshima Mon AmourCarne - Children of ParadiseGoddard - Weekend, AlphavilleJeunet
― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 24 February 2003 22:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
::shivers, twitches, grinds teeth::
― Wintermute (Wintermute), Monday, 24 February 2003 22:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 24 February 2003 22:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
What about the part where the workers eat the sandwich and talk about Marxism? It's gobs of fun!
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 24 February 2003 22:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
I guess I could include the Three Colours trilogy even though they were directed by a Pole - Red and White are my favourites. La Double vie de Veronique too.
For more French Polish, Polanski's "The tenant" is an oft forgotten piece of insane genius.
― Tag (Tag), Monday, 24 February 2003 22:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Wintermute (Wintermute), Monday, 24 February 2003 22:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― hstencil, Monday, 24 February 2003 22:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Wintermute (Wintermute), Monday, 24 February 2003 22:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― slutsky (slutsky), Monday, 24 February 2003 22:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 24 February 2003 23:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 24 February 2003 23:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Wintermute (Wintermute), Monday, 24 February 2003 23:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 24 February 2003 23:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 24 February 2003 23:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 24 February 2003 23:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 24 February 2003 23:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Wintermute (Wintermute), Monday, 24 February 2003 23:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 24 February 2003 23:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 24 February 2003 23:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
Also search: Subway and the incredibly silly but fun guilty-pleasure Brotherhood Of The Wolf
― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Monday, 24 February 2003 23:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Leee (Leee), Monday, 24 February 2003 23:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
There's this one called Peppermint Soda that looks very good but I haven't rented it yet.
― Genevieve, Monday, 24 February 2003 23:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― slutsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 01:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
hstencil: We have never discussed The Hairdresser's Husband, but we can.
slutsky: Hi! I knew someone of that name once, on a faraway island . . .
― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 01:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― slutsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 02:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 02:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― slutsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 02:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 03:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 03:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 09:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jeanne picot (jeanne picot), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 11:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 11:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
Other gems I've remembered - I loved "les amants du pont neuf", (although Carax's "Polo X" is in my top ten worst films ever made). "la petite voleuse" (wonderful Charlotte G), "l'appartement"....
I remember "le grand chemin" being a kind of French "My life as a dog" but I was young and rose-tintedly Francophilic when I saw it so I could be wrong.
― Tag (Tag), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 20:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
Oh no! That film is extraordinary.
Ed needs to post more pictures of Jacques Tati.
Did anyone catch this exhibit in Paris or Rotterdam? See here for some nice photos.
― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 20:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
yes. esp. que la fête commence
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Sunday, 13 April 2003 11:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Erik, Sunday, 13 April 2003 11:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
"......oui."
― Joe (Joe), Sunday, 13 April 2003 13:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
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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-one years ago) link
― cameron, Monday, 14 April 2003 10:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 14 April 2003 14:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Sunday, 3 October 2004 08:54 (nineteen years ago) link