Dope Ass French Movies

[DüM]

I just watched Eyes Without A Face for the second time and I looked up Franju's other films. But, Blood of the Beasts is real slaughterhouse shit and I don't think I could watch that (I skipped the watch-niggas-commit-suicide-with-a-shotty stage of 90's childhood).

Are his other movies worth watching?

notesee recommending Le Samouraï and it was pretty dope.

[denimdestroyedmylife]

i love eyes without a face

had the good fortune of seeing that on the big screen on film

le samourai was great; le circle rouge (or whatever) is just as good, except not quite, but really almost there----a matter of preference, maybe.

there are really too many good french films, care to narrow it down?

[denimdestroyedmylife]

^ diary of a country priest is very high on my list of favorite films EVER (french or otherwise)

[notesee]

I liked L'Auberge Espagnole also. I hear there is a sequel, but I haven't seen it yet.

DUM, look up articles on French New Wave films. Check out films by the directors ... Godard, Melville, Dassin to start out with.

[sybaritical]

I am not as up on french cinema as I used to be so I will leave it at being happy with anything featuring Emmanuelle Beart.

[landho]

Here is a short list of French films that I love:

The 400 Blows

Hiroshima mon amour

Army of Shadows

Jules et Jim

Cyrano de Bergerac (dir. by Jean-Paul Rapineau and starring Depardieu)

Rules of the Game

Probably also anything by Louis Malle.

But I highly highly highly recommend you see Army of Shadows. It's one of the best things I've ever seen (not that the others listed aren't, but Army of Shadows is particularly visceral). Saw it once at the theater and once at home and I loved it both times.

[DüM]

thanks, everyone. will +rep as I watch these.

[mpcec]

This is not really in the vein of what is being discussed so far but has any seen To Be and To Have? It's at my local Blockbuster, I'll probably rent it in the next couple of days as its won some awards I think. Also I've seen Time Out which was decent, not great though.

[iamstarwars]

You have some good suggestions already. Other French movies I like are le Deuxième Souffle (my favorite movie by Jean Pierre Melville, the guy who made le Samourai and le Cercle Rouge), Rois et Reines (Arnaud Desplechin), Pas de Repos pour les Braves (Alain Guiraudie, my favorite director), Aaltra (similar to Aki Kaurismäki's movies), L'Atalante and Zero de Conduite (Jean Vigo) and, if you like old animation, Le Roi et l'Oiseau (Paul Grimault) and la Planete Sauvage (Rene Laloux).

[evisu 2000]

le trou

bob le flambeur

le petit soldat

plein soleil

mouchette

les amants reguliers

topkapi

touchez pas au grisbi

casque d'or

coup de torchon

etc

[2000dB]

i need to watch topkapi again. that shit was dope.

[jeepster]

i really liked luc beson's most recent film, Angel-Ã. a really beautiful movie. good writing as well. little light on any action per say, but it has its moments. it's just a smart film.

[C0C0]

i hate france this is as french as i go...

[repose]

"La Haine" is a 'dope ass french movie'. "Kings & Queen" for the epilogue. "The Diving Bell & The Butterfly" if you have the opportunity to catch that on the big screen - the cinematography in that movie was incredible. It has this murky-ocular quality to it.

[Handlethevibe]

-Au Revoir Les Enfants

-Pierrot le fou

-Rififi

[fashiontard]

i liked "À bout de souffle"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breathless_%281960_film%29

theres this nice cartoon that came out last year, i think it was called persepolis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persepolis_%28film%29

[alf]

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[mustafarien]

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Haha, that movie totally ruined so many people back in the day. I know my mind was completely fucked. ALIENS!1 What a movie. Great music too.

[chris_n]

the pool

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[cyberPUNK]

"le samourai" wasn't too bad. for a film whose main character is an assassin it really lacked action, however stylistically it was an enjoyable film.

[2000dB]

"le samourai" wasn't too bad. for a film whose main character is an assassin it really lacked action, however stylistically it was an enjoyable film.

I much preferred Hitman too. More tits and gunz.

[denimdestroyedmylife]

[denimdestroyedmylife]

[coleslawyum]

^^^ Got rep for François Ozon too.

I really dig Claude Charbol's films and would recommend them. Here are some of my recent favorites in no particular order:

L' Humanité

L' Emploi du temps

L' Homme du train

Confidences trop intimes

[AstroWolf]

One of the best,

http://imdb.com/title/tt0053198/

[denimdestroyedmylife]

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[dunkin deeznuts]

werd

i liked Delicatessen

never saw swimming pool

[hawkeye]

Breathless (Goddard)

Playtime (Tati)

[mellowbonsai]

i cant recall the name of the movie, but i remember enjoying this french film quite a bit that had something to do with chance, luck... there were scenes of these people running across highways, through woods, blindfolded

+rep for anyone who can remember the title

[zombier]