Clair Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 Audiart in the IndependentTahar Rahim on his star role in A Prophet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted January 17, 2010 Author Share Posted January 17, 2010 From the Independent article:"Rahim's casting is a rare case of a Maghrebin actor playing an iconic lead in a major French film, and his quietly commanding performance earned him the best actor trophy at the 2009 European Film Awards. "Cinema in French with actors who have Maghebin roots is becoming stronger and stronger .See Hafsia Herzi in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMT15VdIoIkAnd Sabrina Ouazani (also in the film above) in L'esquive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kF7SCunsPc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted January 17, 2010 Author Share Posted January 17, 2010 Strange bedfellow!Simon Heffer's article in yesterdays Telegraph about French cinema.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/simonheffer/7004667/Theres-a-golden-age-going-on-next-door.htmlWhile I wouldn't quite class Le goût des autres as "The best French film I think I have ever seen" it is very fine and I loved it when I saw it on French TV a while agoThere is a marvellous moment when the philistine industrialist is dragged to the theatre by his wife.The play starts, and it is Bérénice in a terrible production in which Bérénice is played by a woman who is supposed to be teaching him English His first reaction is 'Putain! C'est en vers' but as he sees the great speech "Ah ! cruel ! est-il temps de me le déclarer ? Qu'avez-vous fait ? Hélas ! je me suis crue aimée. Au plaisir de vous voir mon âme accoutumée Ne vit plus que pour vous. Ignoriez-vous vos lois, Quand je vous l'avouai pour la première fois ? À quel excès d'amour m'avez-vous amenée ! Que ne me disiez-vous : « Princesse infortunée, Où vas-tu t'engager, et quel est ton espoir ? Ne donne point un coeur qu'on ne peut recevoir. » Ne l'avez-vous reçu, cruel, que pour le rendre, Quand de vos seules mains ce coeur voudrait dépendre ? Tout l'Empire a vingt fois conspiré contre nous. II était temps encor : que ne me quittiez-vous ? Mille raisons alors consolaient ma misère : Je pouvais de ma mort accuser votre père, Le peuple, le sénat, tout l'Empire romain, Tout l'univers, plutôt qu'une si chère main."Something begins to awaken in him, and the desire for culture, under the influence of what might seem to be a desire for the passion he sees in the actor takes hold.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjqSS0EgvWEA real epiphany, but he is not the only one to learn the validity of "Le goût des autres" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Enjoyed that link to "Le gout des autres" . "Comme une image" by the same director is very good too. In the UK, I think films like that would probably be made for TV, rather than cinema.Digression alert - "Edge of Darkness"( tv drama from the eighties) has been remade starring Mel Gibson and Ray Winstone. It's released in UK next week and France on 17 Feb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 [quote user="Tom"]Digression alert - "Edge of Darkness"( tv drama from the eighties) has been remade starring Mel Gibson and Ray Winstone. It's released in UK next week and France on 17 Feb.[/quote]Got the DVD with Bob Peck. Looks a bit dated, with long-ish and repetitive shots, but par for the course at the time it was made, I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 [quote user="Clair"]Got the DVD with Bob Peck. Looks a bit dated, with long-ish and repetitive shots, but par for the course at the time it was made, I suppose.[/quote]I think that's true of a lot of old tv dramas. They do date a lot, best not to go back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted January 28, 2010 Author Share Posted January 28, 2010 I have just noticed that "Le goût des autres" is being shown on Arte this evening at 20:35 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarkkent Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 The BBC correspondent in Paris clearly does not seem to be impressed by French cinema.Here is what he said last week in "From Our Own Correspondent":http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8474488.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted January 28, 2010 Author Share Posted January 28, 2010 On the other hand the Telegraph obviously is:to repeat the linkhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/simonheffer/7004667/Theres-a-golden-age-going-on-next-door.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chancer Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 [quote user="NormanH"]I have just noticed that "Le goût des autres" is being shown on Arte this evening at 20:35[/quote]A bit late to post that Norman at the minute it started!I hadnt returned by then anyway but am pleased to see that I havnt missed after all the exposé on Amiente on FR2 which has just started. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted February 11, 2010 Author Share Posted February 11, 2010 I have just watched another film by Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri.Comme une Image ("Look at me" is the title given in English) and found it wonderful. This link gives a very good account:http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=56253 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Âme Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 Comme une Image is available on Orange CineSeries at the moment, but the synopsis didn't grab me... So thanks very much for the recommendation. :) Their synopses are woefully poor; they don't name the director or actors, nor the original language, despite VO being an option for every film... bah! Thanks again. [B] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 Normie, I would have seen you as a Louis la Brocante fan? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krusty Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 Ne le dis à personne is on BBC4 at 23.30 UK time tonight.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362225/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted February 11, 2010 Author Share Posted February 11, 2010 [quote user="woolybanana"]Normie, I would have seen you as a Louis la Brocante fan?[/quote]Even more since the actor had a stroke and now moves with difficulty.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted February 11, 2010 Author Share Posted February 11, 2010 [quote user="krusty"]Ne le dis à personne is on BBC4 at 23.30 UK time tonight.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362225/[/quote]Well worth a look as Claire said on the other thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 [quote user="NormanH"][quote user="krusty"] Ne le dis à personne is on BBC4 at 23.30 UK time tonight.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362225/[/quote]Well worth a look as Claire said on the other thread.[/quote]Oh my goodness, what a fantastic film. Thanks to everyone who recommended it.And how lovely to hear Jeff Buckley again, singing Lilac Wine in the soundtrack (and didn't both Mr Cat and I shed a little wobbly-lipped tear at the end , how could anyone not ?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 [quote user="Cat"][quote user="krusty"]Ne le dis à personne is on BBC4 at 23.30 UK time tonight http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362225/[/quote]Oh my goodness, what a fantastic film. Thanks to everyone who recommended it.[/quote]So glad you enjoyed it [:)]The characters just pull me into the storyline and at no time do I get a sense of disbelief. I understand there's a Hollywood remake in the pipeline... [8-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krusty Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 I have just finished watching it and must agree , excellent film. I was puzzling the significance of counting the "/" in the email ....all is revealed at the end.And I kept wondering who the good cop was , having seen him before .....it was François Berléand , who was in "The Transporter" series of films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted February 27, 2010 Author Share Posted February 27, 2010 This film has been well receivedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_XE-U18AbA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5-element Posted February 27, 2010 Share Posted February 27, 2010 I saw "Le Concert" - and while it is not a really great movie, it was immensely enjoyable - with all hankies out for the grand finale, pure undiluted emotion as we are swept by Tchaikovsky's Concert for Violins. Anyone who filled up in "Field of Dreams" ("Build it and they will come!") will love "Le Concert" , as well as all who love music. "Le Concert" is also very, very funny in parts - some dark humour which involves stereotyped Russian business sense. I might even want to see it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted February 27, 2010 Author Share Posted February 27, 2010 Thanks 5 e I trust your judgement.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5-element Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 "Mademoiselle Chambon" just got an oscar. A "very French" - culturally - movie."Ceux qui restent" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0969701/ was on Fr.2 last night, and although I had not intended watching it, I was increasingly pulled into the film.Both of those movies star Vincent Lindon, the lifeguard in the earlier "Welcome" - where (living in Calais) he unwittingly befriends a young Afghan who is desperate to get to England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted March 1, 2010 Author Share Posted March 1, 2010 An evocative moment from the trailer:http://www.premiere.fr/Bandes-annonces/Video/Mademoiselle-Chambon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted March 7, 2010 Share Posted March 7, 2010 Gérard Depardieu in The Singer (original title Quand J'Etais Chanteur) tonight (Sun 7th March) on BBC4 at 19:15.I have stated before that I am not enamoured with a "comfortable" Depardieu, and this is an example of the easy performance which stands at the polar opposite of the edgy roles he used to prefer in his younger days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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