NormanH Posted November 2, 2012 Author Share Posted November 2, 2012 De rouille et d'os (Rust and Bone)has just come out in the UK. It is the latest film of Jacques Audiard who made the superb Un Prophètehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/extra/2012/oct/23/extra-rust-and-bone-competition?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT5499I2French trailer herehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEs-dkXy8DM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loiseau Posted November 2, 2012 Share Posted November 2, 2012 Worth seeing, but rather gruesome in places.Angela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 The Big Picture (original title: L'homme qui voulait vivre sa vie) tonight on BBC4 at 10pm UK time / 11pm FR time."An executive with a seemingly perfect life discovers his wife is having an affair, and murders her lover in a moment of madness. He escapes the law by assuming his victim's identity and making a fresh start on the Adriatic coast, which leads him to realise what was missing in his life before."Drama, starring Romain Duris, Marina Fois and Niels Arestrup. In French with subtitles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frecossais Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 I saw Amour last night - a most harrowing experience. For all that, I could only marvel at the quality of a film that set out so starkly the issues of old age, ill health, caring for a loved one and the loneliness they all engender.Detaching myself from the subject matter, I could understand quite a lot of the French, and yet again in a French film, I thought how the actors never seem as if they're acting. One scene lasting about two minutes showed the main male character cutting the heads off a bunch of flowers. I bet he didn't have to do it more than once despite his hands shaking. It's not a film to enjoy, but it's a very good film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted December 4, 2012 Author Share Posted December 4, 2012 I saw it this weekend too.As you say absolutely brilliant technically, both in terms of acting and of cinematography.You might think it was a documentary, so naturally do the two leads act.I greatly admire that side of the film.At the same time I found myself wondering "Why?"We see the minute details of the daily routine of looking after some one in decline, with the difficulties and tedium that entails, and it could be argued that this is the Director's way of getting the audience to share the humdrum of experience, even at the risk of boring them.Up to that point I can agree with what he is doing, and there are some wonderfully black ironic moments as when an old pupil, now a successful concert pianist visits, but finds he has forgotten the CD he meant to bring.This invisibility and irrelevance of the old and invalid is well observed, but I am not convinced that the film doesn't tip over into a needless invasion of privacy (even though they are fictional characters) At one point he locks the bedroom where his wife is lying ill when their daughter comes to visit.When she wants to know how things are going he says "Rien de tout cela mérite d'etre montré""Nothing of all that deserves to be shown"I think that was my final sentiment. We are shown with great brilliance,but not all that much compassion, things that might be better left private. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 [quote user="Clair"]The Big Picture (original title: L'homme qui voulait vivre sa vie) tonight on BBC4 at 10pm UK time / 11pm FR time."An executive with a seemingly perfect life discovers his wife is having an affair, and murders her lover in a moment of madness. He escapes the law by assuming his victim's identity and making a fresh start on the Adriatic coast, which leads him to realise what was missing in his life before."Drama, starring Romain Duris, Marina Fois and Niels Arestrup. In French with subtitles.[/quote]Enjoyed this, Romain Duris carried it along intensely. He is on the run and ends up in Montenegro.Niels Arestrup who was in the Prophet plays a drunk journalist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frecossais Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 What an interesting viewpoint, Norman.I think that the film maker's detachment is necessary to avoid sentimentality. Yes we are invited into an intensely private situation, which I think we view with pity and horror, but I did not feel like an intruder, this could be us!Maybe at 2 hours and 10 min the film was a trifle long, and I was aware that some of the audience were fidgeting, but for me this was thought-provoking. Definitely not your feel-good film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted March 9, 2013 Author Share Posted March 9, 2013 The excellent Il y longtemps que je t'aime is available again on iPlayer if you haven't seen it:http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b012rhqz/Ive_Loved_You_So_Long/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 Excellent film, previously discussed HERE Got the DVD and what a fine performance from Kristin Scott Thomas...I spotted the name Serge Hazanavicius alongside KST's name, and have just realised he is the brother of Michel Hazanavicius, best know for The Artist and the spy spoofs OSS 117 films, all starring Jean Dujardin.PS: I did not type their name. I cheated and used copy & paste! [;-)]PPS: Still haven't seen The Artist... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted March 10, 2013 Author Share Posted March 10, 2013 PPS There is something about The Artist that puts me off seeing it ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cendrillon Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 I didn't enjoy "The Artist" but I did like "La Grain et le Mulet" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted March 10, 2013 Author Share Posted March 10, 2013 Yes me too, as I mentioned in the Tajine thread [:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted June 2, 2013 Author Share Posted June 2, 2013 And now Abdellatif Kechiche has won the Palme d'Or at Cannes:http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/may/26/cannes-blue-is-the-warmest-colourWell I agree...after all I have been recommending his films in this thread for some time[:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted June 17, 2013 Author Share Posted June 17, 2013 On iPlayer this weekhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01bl0q3/My_Afternoons_with_Margueritte/A gentle feelgood comedy which lets Depardieu amble through... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 Hardly ambling.........I thought Depardieu acted the part very sensitively and was totally believable in his rôle.Whilst light-hearted, it nevertheless has much to say about the nature of love, its different manifestations and disguises.There were also some lines that made me laugh out loud.Lovely film IMHO [:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cendrillon Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 " La Tete en Friche "................" My afternoons with Margueritte" filmed in Pons 17[:)]Gisele Casadesus who starred in this film has been in another recent film "Sous le Figuier" which I really enjoyed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted June 18, 2013 Author Share Posted June 18, 2013 Oh yes sweets I enjoyed it very much. I even have a DVD...but I know Clair has gone off Dépardieu. "Ambling"is as much about his gait in the film as his techniqueI too thought both of them were well cast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted November 15, 2013 Author Share Posted November 15, 2013 A film which is just about to come out and which promises a lot is Avant l'Hiver which is by Phillipe Claudel starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Daniel Auteil. Paul est un neurochirurgien de soixante ans. Quand on est marié à Lucie, le bonheur ne connait jamais d’ombre. Mais un jour, des bouquets de roses commencent à être livrés anonymement chez eux au même moment où Lou, une jeune fille de vingt ans, ne cesse de croiser le chemin de Paul.Alors commencent à tomber les masques : les uns et les autres sont-ils vraiment ce qu’ils prétendent être ? La vie de Paul et Lucie est-elle celle dont ils avaient rêvé ? Qui ment et qui est vrai ? Est-il encore temps, juste avant l’hiver de la vie, d’oser révéler les non-dits et les secrets ? Où sont les monstres et qui sont les anges ? Phillipe Claudel and Kristin Scott Thomas were of course involved with 'Il y longtemps que je vous aime' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted March 17, 2015 Author Share Posted March 17, 2015 Haven't posted on this thread for a while so here is a reminder that it exists.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frenchcinemareview Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 If anyone is looking for a film to lift the spirits it's worth going to see bruno podalydes' Comme un Avion. Very subtle, slow burn comedy with definite shades of Wes Anderson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted June 16, 2015 Author Share Posted June 16, 2015 Thanks..I have been out of action so hadn't heard about this one... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cendrillon Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 Comme un Avion is on my list of films to see.[:)]I recently saw "My old Lady" which is set in Paris.Kristen Scott Thomas, Kevin Kline and Maggie Smith, all three well cast. O.K. it was not in French but never the less quite a good film to go and see on a dull evening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 Hi NormanH,Here are some of my favorites:-Clouds of Sils Maria-La Vie D’Adele-L’inconnu du Lac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted February 1, 2016 Author Share Posted February 1, 2016 Hello Ashley,I'm delighted to see someone else interested in this thread which I have let drift a bit since not many people seem very interested.I loved "La Vie D’Adele" and not for the sex scene but because of the poignant and difficult love affair.I haven't seen the other two yet but your recommendation made me Google the trailers and I think they look excellent [:)]A good list of recent films is here:http://www.filmsdefrance.com/gallery/Best_Of_Films_2010.htmlalthough it is a bit of a mixed bunch there are quite a few I would have missed other wise as well as a few duds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon OBrien Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 [quote user="NormanH"]I'm delighted to see someone else interested in this thread which I have let drift a bit since not many people seem very interested.[/quote]I may not be contributing but I am interested in the thread.I don't get much chance to discover new French films so I've been relying on this thread for some time to point me in the direction of ones which might be worth watching. Please do keep posting if you have recommendations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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