The Big Feast (1973)
Original title: La grande bouffe
Year: 1973
Runtime: 130 minutes
Country: France | Italy
Language: French | Italian
Subtitles: English (.sub)
Genre: Comedy | Drama
Director: Marco Ferreri
Cast:
Marcello Mastroianni … Marcello
Michel Piccoli … Michel
Philippe Noiret … Philippe
Ugo Tognazzi … Ugo
Andréa Ferréol … Andrea
Solange Blondeau … Danielle
Florence Giorgetti … Anne
Michèle Alexandre … Nicole
Monique Chaumette … Madeleine
Henri Piccoli … Hector
Maurice Dorléac
Simon Tchao
Louis Navarre … Braguti
Bernard Menez … Pierre
Cordelia Piccoli … Barbara
Plot/Synopsis:
Four wealthy middle-aged men decide to get together at a country villa and eat themselves to death. They are: Marcello, a pilot; Ugo, a chef; Philippe, a judge; and Michel, a television executive. After the first night, they agree that something is lacking: female company. They recruit three prostitutes and a local primary school teacher, Andrea. The prostitutes, disgusted, depart after a few days, but Andrea appears to be having the time of her life and stays the course. Although the food is magnificent, it soon becomes apparent that this is not the nicest way to go…
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Les Valseuses (1974)
Original title: Les valseuses
AKA: Going Places
Year: 1974
Runtime: 1 hour, 57 minutes
Country: France
Language: French
Subtitles: English | French (.sub/.idx)
Genre: Comedy | Crime | Drama
Director: Bertrand Blier
Cast:
Gérard Depardieu … Jean-Claude
Patrick Dewaere … Pierrot
Miou-Miou … Marie-Ange
Jeanne Moreau … Jeanne Pirolle
Brigitte Fossey … Woman in the train
Christian Alers … Jacqueline’s father Henri
Michel Peyrelon … The Doctor
Gérard Boucaron … Carnot
Jacques Chailleux … Jacques Pirolle
Eva Damien … Doctor’s wife
Dominique Davray … Ursula
Isabelle Huppert … Jacqueline
Marco Perrin … Supermarket inspector
Jacques Rispal … Maton
Claude Vergues … Merian
Plot/Synopsis:
Director Bertrand Blier’s Les Valseuses features Gerard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere as a pair of sociopaths wending their way across France. Though Depardieu is the more dominant of the two, both men are equally culpable in their disregard for common decency. They are particularly rough on women, even the like-minded Miou-Miou, whom they both love in their own way. Jeanne Moreau has a brief bit as an ex-convict who sleeps with both Depardieu and Dewaere.
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A Spot of Bother (2009)
Original title: Une petite zone de turbulences
Year: 2009
Runtime: 101 minutes
Country: France
Language: French
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Eloy de la Iglesia
Cast:
Michel Blanc … Jean-Paul Muret
Miou-Miou … Anne Muret
Mélanie Doutey … Cathie Muret
Gilles Lellouche … Philippe Faure
Cyril Descours … Mathieu Muret
Wladimir Yordanoff … David
Yannick Renier … Olivier
Jolhan Martin … Hugo
Eric Caravaca … Fabien
Nathalie Richard … La psy
Marie-Christine Orry … Tante Lucie
Dominique Parent … Oncle Alain
David Seigneur … Titof
Céline Cuignet … Sophie
Rosette … Martine
Plot/Synopsis:
Retired Englishman George Hall’s hypochondria worsens and takes its toll on his family.
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The Round-Up (2010)
Original title: La Rafle
Year: 2010
Runtime: 115 minutes
Country: France | Germany | Hungary
Language: French | German | Yiddish
Subtitles: Chinese | English (hard-subbed)
Genre: Drama | History | War
Director: Roselyne Bosch
Cast:
Jean Reno … Dr. David Sheinbaum
Mélanie Laurent … Annette Monod
Gad Elmaleh … Schmuel Weismann
Raphaelle Agogué … Sura Weismann
Hugo Leverdez … Jo Weismann
Oliver Cywie … Simon Zygler
Mathieu Di Concerto … Noé Zygler
Romain Di Concerto … Noé Zygler
Rebecca Marder … Rachel Weismann
Anne Brochet … Dina Traube
Isabelle Gélinas … Hélène Timonier
Thierry Frémont … Capitaine Pierret
Catherine Allégret … La concierge ‘Tati’
Sylvie Testud … Bella Zygler
Plot/Synopsis:
The harrowing true story of how French police rounded up civilian Jews living in Paris in order to send 13,000 men, women and children to their deaths at Auschwitz is given an accurate, sometimes wrenching and occasionally overly theatrical treatment in The Round Up (La Rafle). Demonstrating exactly how French authorities pandered to the Nazis, this ambitious period drama boasts a prestige cast that should help draw local audiences to an uncomfortable subject.
Producer Ilan Goldman, who gambled and won on La Vie En Rose, has taken on a difficult slice of French history. Apart from 1973’s Les Guichets du Louvre (Black Thursday) and Joseph Losey’s Monsieur Klein, dramatic attempts to address the so-called Vel d’Hiv roundup of July 16, 1942 are virtually non-existent. Not unlike Andrzej Wajda’s Katyn, which set the record straight about another wartime travesty long ignored, The Round Up doggedly relates the morning raid and its aftermath in human terms.
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Joan the Maid 2 – The Prisons (2004)
Original title: Jeanne la Pucelle II – Les prisons
Year: 1994
Runtime: 104 minutes
Country: France
Language: French
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Biography | Drama | History
Director: Jacques Rivette
Cast:
Sandrine Bonnaire … Jeanne d’Arc
André Marcon … Charles, Dauphin de France
Jean-Louis Richard … La Trémoille
Marcel Bozonnet … Regnault de Chartres
Patrick Le Mauff … Jean Batard d’Orléans
Didier Sauvegrain … Raoul de Gaucourt
Jean-Pierre Lorit … Jean d’Alencon
Bruno Wolkowitch … Gilles de Laval
Romain Lagarde … Nicolas
Florence Darel … Jeanne d’Orléans
Pierre Baillot … Jacques Boucher
Germain Rousseau … Le confesseur du Dauphin
Emmanuel de Chauvigny … Gros-Garrau
Mathias Jung … Jean Pasquerel
Mathieu Busson … Louis de Coutes
Plot/Synopsis:
The second portion of Rivette’s masterful Joan of Arc saga depicts Joan’s occupation of Compeigne, her desertion by her men, and her subsequent imprisonment and death sentence.
After a futile attempt to reclaim Paris, Joan of Arc (Sandrine Bonnaire) is captured at Compiegne, sold to the British and turned over to the ecclesiastical court in the second half of director Jacques Rivette’s epic biography of the legendary French icon. Bonnaire’s poignant and thoroughly human portrait of martyrdom scored her a César nomination for Best Actress in 1995. André Marcon also stars as Charles, Dauphin de France.
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Elena and Her Men (1956)
Original title: Elena et les hommes
AKA: Paris Does Strange Things
Year: 1956
Runtime: 1 hour, 38 minutes
Country: Italy | France
Language: French
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Director: Jean Renoir
Cast:
Ingrid Bergman … Elena Sokorowska
Jean Marais … Général François Rollan
Mel Ferrer … Le comte Henri de Chevincourt
Jean Richard … Hector
Juliette Gréco … Miarka, la gitane
Pierre Bertin … Martin-Michaud
Dora Doll … Rosa la Rose
Frédéric Duvallès … Gaudin
Renaud Mary … Fleury
Jacques Morel … Duchêne
Albert Rémy … Buchez
Jean Claudio … Lionel Villaret
Mirko Ellis … Marbeau
Jacques Hilling … Lisbonne
Jacques Jouanneau … Eugène Martin-Michaud
Plot/Synopsis:
In the 1950s, French films were considered the ne plus ultra in naughtiness by certain impressionable filmgoers. It was to these movie fans that the American distributor of Jean Renoir’s Elena et les Hommes (Elena and the Men) catered when it provocatively retitled the picture Paris Does Strange Things As further grist to the mill for American publicity hacks, the film starred Ingrid Bergman, who had recently returned to Hollywood after her career was nearly ruined by a marital scandal. Actually there was nothing overtly erotic about Paris Does Strange Things. The film was a sweet romantic comedy wherein Bergman plays a poverty-stricken Polish princess, who is wooed by eligible admirers Mel Ferrer and Jean Marais. Will she marry for love, or merely to restore her wealth? The suspense is bearable. Inexpertly cut to 86 minutes for its American showings, Paris Does Strange Things was restored to its full 98 minutes in 1986 and its title reverted to Elena et les Hommes.
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Hunting and Gathering (2007)
Original title: Ensemble, c’est tout
Year: 2007
Runtime: 1 hour, 32 minutes
Country: France
Language: French
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Drama | Romance
Director: Claude Berri
Cast:
Audrey Tautou … Camille Fauque
Guillaume Canet … Franck
Laurent Stocker … Philibert Marquet de la Tubelière
Françoise Bertin … Paulette
Alain Sachs … Medecin du travail
Firmine Richard … Mamadou
Béatrice Michel … Carine
Kahena Saighi … Samia
Hélène Surgère … Yvonne
Alain Stern … Chef restaurant
Halima Guizani … Infirmière
Juliette Arnaud … Aurélia
Danièle Lebrun … La mère de Camille
Li-Ting Huang … Serveuse
Madeleine Cofano … La coiffeuse
Plot/Synopsis:
Acclaimed director Claude Berri (Jean de Florette) helms the whimsical romantic comedy Ensemble, c’est tout (Hunting and Gathering, 2007). A box office blockbuster in France, the picture follows the romantic couplings that form in the lives of several lonely Parisian singles. The lead characters include: an emotionally fragile, exhausted cleaning lady named Camille (Audrey Tatou) who is suffering from anorexia; a well-to-do young man named Phillibert struggling with his own sexual orientation (Laurent Stocker) but who begins to drift toward heterosexuality and a stable relationship with a woman; and Phillibert’s rebellious pothead roommate Franck (Guillaume Canet), who can never quite breach the possibility of committing to one woman, or come face to face with his dream of opening a French restaurant – until he meets Camille and the pieces begin to fall into place. Writer-director Berri adapted the novel by Anna Gavaldi.
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Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998)
Original title: Kirikou et la sorcière
AKA: Emmanuelle – A World of Desire
Year: 1998
Runtime: 1 hour, 10 minutes
Country: France | Belgium | Luxembourg
Language: French
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Animation | Adventure | Family
Director: Michel Ocelot
Plot/Synopsis:
In a little village somewhere in Africa, a boy named Kirikou is born. But he’s not a normal boy, because he knows what he wants very well. Also he already can speak and walk. His mother tells him how an evil sorceress has dried up their spring and devoured all males of the village except of one. Hence little Kirikou decides, he will accompany the last warrior to the sorceress. Due to his intrepidity he may be the last hope of the village.
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Man Is a Woman (1998)
Original title: L’homme est une femme comme les autres
Year: 1998
Runtime: 1 hour, 35 minutes
Country: France
Language: French | English | Yiddish
Subtitles: English (.sub/.idx and .srt)
Genre: Comedy | Romance
Director: Jean-Jacques Zilbermann
Cast: Antoine de Caunes | Elsa Zylberstein | Gad Elmaleh | Michel Aumont | Maurice Bénichou | Judith Magre | Catherine Hiegel
Plot/Synopsis:
Antoine de Caunes stars in this French comedy about gay clarinetist Simon. His mother and wealthy uncle know he’s gay, so the uncle says he’ll give him ten million francs and a house if he will get married. Simon, who can barely survive on his income as a piano-bar musician, turns down the offer — but then he meets soprano songbird Rosalie, who sings Yiddish favorites for senior citizens. After she takes Simon to meet her large family of Hassids, those wedding bells might yet chime.
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Azur et Asmar (2006)
Original title: Kirikou et les bêtes sauvages
Year: 2006
Runtime: 1 hour, 34 minutes
Country: France | Belgium | Spain | Italy
Language: French | Arabic
Subtitles: English | French (.srt)
Genre: Animation | Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Director: Michel Ocelot
Plot/Synopsis:
Once upon a time there were two children nursed by same woman. Azur, a blonde, blue-eyed son of a noblewoman and Asmar, the dark skinned and dark-eyed child of the nurse. As kids, they fought and loved each other as brothers do. As grown ups, they mercilessly become rivals in the quest years later, when Azur is being haunted by memories of the legendary Djinn-fairy, and takes it upon himself to journey all the way to Asmar’s homeland to seek it out. Now reunited, he finds that she has since become a successful merchant, while Asmar is now a member of the royal guard. However, Asmar also longs to find the Djinn-fairy, and only one of the two youths can be successful in their quest
I saw this today as part of the London Children’s Film Festival 2006 at the Barbican Centre and found it completely and utterly satisfying. Every second of screen time is mind-blowingly beautiful to the point of being painful – from the wild flowers on the field where the title characters played as boys, to the starlit silhouette of Azur and the Princess on a treetop. But don’t let the sumptuous visuals make you think this film is just eye candy. The story is engaging and yet profound, the characters vivid, and the message (yes, it has a message, but what’s wrong with that?) is inspirational; a quality that the English-language animated films of the last decade has completely eschewed. Ocelot’s early ‘Princes et Princesses’ was enchanting and promising, and both his Kirikou films were endearing. But with ‘Azur’ he has totally ascended to a different level. It is admirable how he consistently refuses to dumb down his characters, and the delightful ending is wonderfully faux conventional in Ocelot’s trade mark style. Difficult to see how popular this would be with today’s kids, but a generation growing up inspired by ‘Azur’ would no doubt be more pacifist and tolerant.
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Azur et Asmar (2006)
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