French Movies

I really loved "coco before chanel" I loved it!

 

Anyone seen Micmacs?

One of my favourite French films.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPEX_RXRKgw

I've trouble persuading even some of my more film buff friends to watch this. It's hilarious. If you like steam punk and Terry Gilliam then you'll love this film.

 

Loved it! But I kept comparing it to Amelie & City of Lost Children which I liked a little better. I need to give Micmacs another spin

 

Jean de Florette and Manon of the Spring (both are awesome)

Shoot the Piano Player

The Red Baloon

 

-La Grande Illusion
-Pickpocket
-Series Noire
-The Sign of the Leo
-Le Trou
-A Man Escaped
-Le Chat
-Le Jour Se Leve
-Mr. Klein
-La Vie De Boheme
-Purple Moon

 

Great list from what I've seen! I just watched A Man Escaped and was blown away. Just like Bresson's other film Pickpocket, it builds thick suspense by focusing on tiny details & inanimate objects. Notice how we never see a Nazi's face, instead we hear their footsteps or keys rattling as Fontaine is chipping away at a door frame. It amplifies the suspense without any big theatrics.

Another thing that's weird but very effective: he tells us the ending up front (I mean, it's in the title of the movie ), so that shifts the focus away from whether he escapes and instead we get sucked into the story of how he escapes. Brilliant stuff. A Man Escaped & Pickpocket are the only 2 Bresson films I've seen but I'm suddenly a huge fan.

 

I came across Yves Angelo’s film Colonel Chabert (France, 1994) by chance, but I was immediately hooked, because it was as intense as a theatre play. No wonder, it is an adaptation of Balzac’s story of the same name. Among other things, the film can be seen as an unlikely father-son story, in which the lawyer (left), an intellectual high-flyer who prides himself of having won every case, takes the old, disillusioned soldier seriously from the start and ends up looking after him like a son. A film delight of the most sublime kind!

Colonel Chabert (1994 film) - Wikipedia
Yves Angelo - Wikipedia

“The Battle of Eylau, or Battle of Preussisch-Eylau, was a bloody and strategically inconclusive battle on 7 and 8 February 1807 between Napoleon's Grande Armée and the Imperial Russian Army under the command of Levin August von Bennigsen near the town of Preussisch Eylau in East Prussia. Late in the battle, the Russians received timely reinforcements from a Prussian division of von L'Estocq. After 1945, the town was renamed Bagrationovsk as part of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. The engagement was fought during the War of the Fourth Coalition, part of the Napoleonic Wars.”

“In the novel Le Colonel Chabert of French author Honoré de Balzac, Eylau is the battle where the colonel describes having been mistakenly reported as killed.”

Battle of Eylau - Wikipedia

 

Damn, I missed this.. I notice when I check notifications, they suddenly disappear since I only come here once in a great while.

I've been in a movie rut and can't find anything to see after viewing/rating thousands of movies.