French Films
 

A bounty of riches around.
I saw "good evening, ladies and gentlemen"with Jeremy Irons and French songbird, Patricia Kaas in her first film.
"The swimming pool "charlotte Rampling and incredible body, Ludivine Sagnier.
"Cet Amour-La" Jeanne Moreau playing Margerite Duras

Hi, Mimi! I saw Man on the Train, with Jean Rochefort and Johnny Hallyday--excellent, as was L'Auberge Espagnole. Thinking of going to the Swimming Pool tomorrow. Was it a good story? Want to see Jet Lag with Binoche and Reno, too, when it gets here.

Sue,
I saw Swimming Pool very recently in Paris. Very dark, but Charlotte Rampling is doing a suberb job, similar to her role in Sous Le Sable (Under the Sand?).
I think the movie is much better than Francois Ozon's previous one (8 Femmes).

As for Jet Lag (Decalage Horaire), it's a pretty funny comedy. And Jean Reno, oh la la...

Right now, waiting for Claude Chabrol's new one (La Fleur du Mal) starring Nathalie Baye and Suzanne Flon which will be out next month.

Sue, your two were excellant. I won't tell you the plot of Swimming pool because on another forum I did and this old Al-igator didn't like my revealing my interpretation of the ending.
Another Reno fan here Ursula!

Ah, Sundays and Cybell, anyone?

And while on gliterrati, see any significance to October 1963 in Paris? My very, very early teen years, but I was there, and I remember. Anyone remember with me?

Mimi
Last night we saw an entertaining film with Isabelle Hupert and Michel Seuralt, The Swindle. See it??
Swimming Pool made me long for a French country house~
I am waiting to see Jet Lag, did you see Jean Reno in a film made in Japan called Wasabi? that was fun, especially if you like Jean Reno:)
I loved Man on the Train and I am still waiting to see L'Auberge Espagnole.
See you at the cinema~

L'Auberge is superb, showing kids from various nations in a small apartment in Spain, trying to come to grips with the new Europe and life in general. Quite charming.

No takers on 10/63? I'm surprised.

Smilestravel, do you mean; "Operation big lift?"(when we sent the troops reinforcement)
Sundays and Cybele, yes I remember that, the little girl and the soldier in hiding.
There was a Spanish film with a little girl who also was a fabulous actress, a must-see film,
"Secret of the Beehive."

Smiles, unless you mean that that was the month Jean Cocteau died? As I recall, he was preparing a radio show to honor Piaf when he expired.

CigaleChanta, Piaf died of cancer in Paris in 1963. I was a young student pre-Sorbonne, in the 6eme, and watched tributes to her on realy French TV in cafes. Quite an intro to Paris, and still fresh even today.

sorry, make that "early" French TV.

Hi, all. I may have an opportunity to see "Swimming Pool" next week. It sounds like a good story but I am also wondering if there are some nice shots of the countryside. One review I read said that the house was in the "town of Luberon." [sic] Since I just was there last month, I'm hoping the film might be a partial cure for my "homesickness."
Anyone know exactly where it was shot?

Shot in Luberon, near Lacoste. Terrific film.

The house is in Menerbes but you do see the countryside when she drives to the house and when she goes to Lacoste wandering around the ruins of DeSade
The Luberon refers to the range of mountains. It is in the department of the Vaucluse. Provençals exclude the Alpes -Maritimes when discussing eastern Provence and almost noone would describe the Coté d Azur as Provençal.

smiles that's when Cocteau dies too preparing a tribute to Piaf.
I'm a big Cocteau fan.

Yes, both are giants. Her career was so short - first performed in Paris in '61, dead in fall '63. He died in the work on her. Very sad. The world is different today, I think.

cigalechanta, I would like to know your interpretation of the ending of Swimming Pool, I saw it last week and two of us have different ideas about it over here in LA.
One of my friends said the whole movie went to pot after she opened her blouse on the veranda.

I would hate to tell my interpretation of the ending, it would spoil things for so many people having not seen it yet.
But I would like to say that it was a good book, if you know what I mean? :)

I too would love to hear other opinions of the Swimming Pool ending.
Saw Happenstance on DVD and thought it was excellent.
Joy

I liked Happenstance too! Although coming after Amelie, it might have suffered a little by comparison.
We need to have a Swimming Pool thread where only those who have seen it or know the ending can post:)