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by ifif1938
updating reviews i just had a hell of a time adding this one to my write-off...I'm going to try again later
a bientot
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Sep 01 '08
2:00 pm PDT
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I'm printing this (Reply to this comment)
by ifif1938
so that I don't have to go searching for it each time I want a new movie to rent, though there are quite a few on this list I have seen, thanks to you and your reviews.
Finally, going less far back to rural Provençe, two pairs of films showing off the Provencal countryside: "Jean de Florette" and "Manon des sources" (Manon of the Spring), both 1986 adaptation by Claude Berri of Marcel Pagnol (also author of the Fanny trilogy, from interwar Marseilles) with Emmanuelle Béart sensational as Manon and Gerard Depardieu heartbreaking as her father, whose back is broken in the first movie by the conniving Yves Montand and Daniel Auteuil. Less heartbreaking are the 1990 pair: "La gloire de mon père" (My Father's Glory) and "Le hâteau de ma mère" (My Mother's Castle) directed by Yves Robert, recalling Pagnol's youth.
These movies are what I consider some of the best I've ever seen...Last night I saw Emmanuelle Béart in a good but strange film, Strayed, probably will be my next review...as I watched i thought to myself where did I see her before and then I realized she was a very young Manon.
Did you want me to add this to my write-off. I figured out how to do it without losing all the codes and html links...;)
Thanks so much for the mention, glad I could be of help with my very limited knowledge about how things work here..
Best always,
B
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Sep 01 '08
11:57 am PDT
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by Stephen_Murray,  in Movies
Fortunately, I've missed "Crackers" and "Moon in the Water." But I cherish "Atlantic City" from among Malle's movies in English.
I don't think it will be obvious to readers that you (we) are talkling about Luc Besson's "Leon, the Professional" (reviewed at www.epinions.com/content_137457536644), which was in English. I like the Besson/Portman relationship in it, but find most everything in the way of plot in it implausible. "La femme Nikita" would be my French Besson pick.
But de Broca's "Man from Rio" would make it onto my list first.
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Sep 01 '08
9:28 am PDT
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by jsommersby, in Movies
Malle made one of the worst films ever with the American-financed "Crackers".
Beineix's "Moon in the Water" was cringe-inducingly awful (though Pauline Kael did write that it was the kind of atrocious film only a talented director could make -- "hacks don't leave common sense this far behind").
I admire (but can't like) the first film of their "trois coleurs" (three colors) trilogy, "Bleue" (Blue, 1993) with a grief-stricken Juliette Binoche
"White" is criminally underrated and "Red" is quite overrated. "Blue" is a strong film until the mediocre conclusion.
The movie is in English with Gary Oldham playing a corrupt police officer. It has very fancy camerawork, but what sticks in my memory is the Portman/Besson relationship
With me, it's Oldman doing the ultimate slow burn until erupting with, "Eeeeeevvvveeerrryyyoooooone!"
And, please, after the horrid likes of "Three Fugitives" and "Out on a Limb", please, oh please don't ever allow Francis Veber to do an American film again!
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Sep 01 '08
6:23 am PDT
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by Stephen_Murray, in Movies
There are many more that I like ("8 Women," par example, with Danielle Darrieux yet again), but I was trying to restrain myself.
There are some recent popular ones (Amelie, Triplets of Belleville) that I dislike, however.
So make your own longer list! or non-overlapping one.
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Sep 01 '08
12:44 am PDT
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by jankp
I can think of some you didn't mention, but also loved the Emmanuelle Beart films and the Hiroshima one. Interesting list.
Jan
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Sep 01 '08
12:15 am PDT
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