French Films
Jul 23rd, 2003, 02:37 PM
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If you email me at hotmail.com I'll tell. Endings of books and films do not bother me being revealed, it is hiow it is done, like seeing the talented Mr. Ripley, and comparing it to the French Purple noon. But as I said in the earlier post, this guy was upset because I gave the ending(my thinking what it is)
Jul 23rd, 2003, 10:07 PM
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Well, I had a chipmunk crisis (somehow one made it into the house and I had a heck of a time catching him--it involved a trashbasket, a peanut butter cracker and two hours of surveillance), so didn't make it to Swimming Pool today, but I will tomorrow! Thanks for not revealing the ending. A separate thread would be great.
Winged Migration was beautiful, but no French.
Smiles, I didn't get there till 4/64, but I still saw Sundays and Cybele. In fact I have a copy.
Winged Migration was beautiful, but no French.
Smiles, I didn't get there till 4/64, but I still saw Sundays and Cybele. In fact I have a copy.
Jul 24th, 2003, 07:29 AM
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I agree with LVSue; "Winged Migration" was indeed beautiful. I've also seen "Swimming Pool," whose ending pleasantly shocked me. Let me just say that as great an actress as Charlotte Rampling is, I never want to see her naked again.
Other French (or French co-presented?) movies I've seen this year are:
1. "Les marchands de sable" (from 2000, a crime film)
2. "A la folie, pas du tout" / "He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not" (w/ Audrey Tautou in a very different role from "Amélie"
3. "Un hirondelle a fait le printemps"
4. "Chaos" (my favorite!)
5. "L'auberge espagnole"
6. "Vendredi Soir" (very elegant film without much dialogue)
7. "Fureur"
8. "Ni pour ni contre" (the most recent Cédric Klapsich film with the very beautiful Marie Gillain)
9. "Décalage horaire"
10. "L'homme du train"
I guess most of the aforementioned movies are already on DVD. If only I had a DVD player...
Other French (or French co-presented?) movies I've seen this year are:
1. "Les marchands de sable" (from 2000, a crime film)
2. "A la folie, pas du tout" / "He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not" (w/ Audrey Tautou in a very different role from "Amélie"
3. "Un hirondelle a fait le printemps"
4. "Chaos" (my favorite!)
5. "L'auberge espagnole"
6. "Vendredi Soir" (very elegant film without much dialogue)
7. "Fureur"
8. "Ni pour ni contre" (the most recent Cédric Klapsich film with the very beautiful Marie Gillain)
9. "Décalage horaire"
10. "L'homme du train"
I guess most of the aforementioned movies are already on DVD. If only I had a DVD player...
Jul 24th, 2003, 07:51 AM
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I think a thread for Swimming Pool is a must!
I also wish that Sue would post the story of the chipmunk capture! Has all the sounds of a spy novel!!
Are you sure you aren't using code?
The new Audrey Tatou film is here, we have yet to see it, but it seems quite different. I still want to see Loves me, Loves me not (how many times have I said that!)
Loved Winged Migration ! I picture geese flying around with small digicams on their backs still~
Charlotte Rampling has never had a problem with taking off her clothes in films and in this one I was pleasantly surprised to see that for her age, she has nothing to be ashamed of..if only I look so good..now about her eyes......
I also wish that Sue would post the story of the chipmunk capture! Has all the sounds of a spy novel!!
Are you sure you aren't using code?
The new Audrey Tatou film is here, we have yet to see it, but it seems quite different. I still want to see Loves me, Loves me not (how many times have I said that!)
Loved Winged Migration ! I picture geese flying around with small digicams on their backs still~
Charlotte Rampling has never had a problem with taking off her clothes in films
and in this one I was pleasantly surprised to see that for her age, she has nothing to be ashamed of..if only I look so good..now about her eyes......
Jul 24th, 2003, 07:58 AM
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it's too early yet to do a "Swimming pool" thread because some people have yet to see it open in their town. Some who have seen it are emailing me for discussion.
The Tautou film is directed by Stephen Frears. All I'll say it that it's a mystery about immeigrants working in a London Hotel.
The Tautou film is directed by Stephen Frears. All I'll say it that it's a mystery about immeigrants working in a London Hotel.
Jul 24th, 2003, 10:11 AM
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Great film. Marie LaForet, the girl is also a singer.Ronet is R.I.P I loved him . There's an old depressing film he made called 'Fire Within."The background music is one of my favorite pieces, Satie's "Gymnopédie.
Jul 24th, 2003, 10:15 AM
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"Swimming Pool" looks interesting. And I still want to see "L'Auberge Espagnole."
While having my teeth cleaned this morning, my dental hygenist was telling me about her recent visit to France, on a Rick Steves tour. They visited the town in Burgundy (I forget the name right now) which was the setting for the non-river scenes in "Chocolat."
While having my teeth cleaned this morning, my dental hygenist was telling me about her recent visit to France, on a Rick Steves tour. They visited the town in Burgundy (I forget the name right now) which was the setting for the non-river scenes in "Chocolat."
Jul 24th, 2003, 03:31 PM
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Didn't make it out again today (dark clouds and lightning made me fear flash floods--I try to stay in when it rains). I checked fandango.com and SP will still be here next week, so I'll wait and go with my friend.
Scarlett, actually, there's not much in the telling of the great chipmunk caper. I heard a squeaking chatter and thought it was the fan. . .. except the fan wasn't on. A very intent cat was watching the corner bricabrac case. So I whisked him off to the bedroom, locked the dogs (much against their will) in the computer room, and moved things around on the bottom shelf, finding a very scared chipmunk who darted behind the couch.
Somehow I knew the animal would not realize I was only trying to help him, so I rigged up a pillowcase at one end of the couch and a plastic bag on the other, with a peanut butter cracker in each, and waited. And waited. And waited. Finally, I moved the couch a little and got the angry chatter again, so I knew he was still there. I moved the throw that was dangling over the edge onto the floor, and he skittered out from it and behind a bookcase next to the couch.
Aha! I quickly stuffed towels in the far edge of the bookcase, so he couldn't escape that way, tilted edge of the couch against the wall and stuffed towels on the far side. That left a small opening between the two, which I blocked with a rectangular wastebasket (with pb cracker) on its side, leaving a triangle of space in the middle of all three. And waited.
Finally I went off to the bedroom to put away clothes. When I returned, I checked the triangle, and there the cheeky creature was, calmly giving himself a bath. So I watched him check out the rim of the wastebasket, head back toward the bookcase, head to the throw, and finally back to the wastebasket. He hefted his little body in, and whoosh! Faster than a speeding bullet, I swung it upright, and in the bottom was a very shocked little chipmunk with his tail all poofed up. Out to the back yard, and freedom! For him and for me!
I was quite proud of my ingenuity. And relieved that I wouldn't have a future dead chipmunk to ferret out some place in my house.
Scarlett, actually, there's not much in the telling of the great chipmunk caper. I heard a squeaking chatter and thought it was the fan. . .. except the fan wasn't on. A very intent cat was watching the corner bricabrac case. So I whisked him off to the bedroom, locked the dogs (much against their will) in the computer room, and moved things around on the bottom shelf, finding a very scared chipmunk who darted behind the couch.
Somehow I knew the animal would not realize I was only trying to help him, so I rigged up a pillowcase at one end of the couch and a plastic bag on the other, with a peanut butter cracker in each, and waited. And waited. And waited. Finally, I moved the couch a little and got the angry chatter again, so I knew he was still there. I moved the throw that was dangling over the edge onto the floor, and he skittered out from it and behind a bookcase next to the couch.
Aha! I quickly stuffed towels in the far edge of the bookcase, so he couldn't escape that way, tilted edge of the couch against the wall and stuffed towels on the far side. That left a small opening between the two, which I blocked with a rectangular wastebasket (with pb cracker) on its side, leaving a triangle of space in the middle of all three. And waited.
Finally I went off to the bedroom to put away clothes. When I returned, I checked the triangle, and there the cheeky creature was, calmly giving himself a bath. So I watched him check out the rim of the wastebasket, head back toward the bookcase, head to the throw, and finally back to the wastebasket. He hefted his little body in, and whoosh! Faster than a speeding bullet, I swung it upright, and in the bottom was a very shocked little chipmunk with his tail all poofed up. Out to the back yard, and freedom! For him and for me!
I was quite proud of my ingenuity. And relieved that I wouldn't have a future dead chipmunk to ferret out some place in my house.
Jul 24th, 2003, 03:42 PM
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LVSue, I couldn't stop laughing about your adventurous chipmunk! We have chipmunk crises in our home about every other month during good weather. It all started when husband decided the aluminum screens marred the beauty of our 80-year old house, and promptly took them down. Four years ago. Throw one bored cat into the mix, one wife who is a fresh air fiend and must have open doors and windows, and you've got chipmunks all over the house.
I feel your pain! They are cute, though, aren't they??
I feel your pain! They are cute, though, aren't they??
Jul 24th, 2003, 04:54 PM
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Someone help me. I have a squirrl crises, I would leave the door open that lead to my tiny outdoor space and they would enter and take our nuts. One year they ate away the wood that keeps the glass in the door, luckily I came in time to stop it. They birth every year on our condo roof, which means a daily huge cleanup, as they drop the branches or the wind blows them away. These trees are neighbors'weed trees, The foul Ailantus and foul mulberry trees that don't belong on a city street. It's exhausing cleaning every day, mess not your own. It's illegal to kill them, And I couldn't do that plus there are too many. I'd hate to be a serial killer.And to keep this in a French frame. They don't like my French Music. Bush's plants?
Jul 24th, 2003, 06:01 PM
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Ok back to French films.
Capo, "Láuberge Espanole is about a young Frenchman, moving into an apartment in Barcelona full of internatinal students, an Italian, an englïsh girl, a boy from Denmark, a girl from Belguim, a German and a girl from Andalusia, all played so well, Audrey Tautou is the French guys girlfriend he leaves behind but does visit him. Great shots of Gaudi's works and the director did a favorite of mine, "When the Cat's away.
Capo, "Láuberge Espanole is about a young Frenchman, moving into an apartment in Barcelona full of internatinal students, an Italian, an englïsh girl, a boy from Denmark, a girl from Belguim, a German and a girl from Andalusia, all played so well, Audrey Tautou is the French guys girlfriend he leaves behind but does visit him. Great shots of Gaudi's works and the director did a favorite of mine, "When the Cat's away.
Jul 31st, 2003, 07:33 PM
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Whoa! Just saw the Swimming Pool with my friends, and thanks to your clue, Scarlett, I emerged the heroine of the day, able to explain the end, upon which they all declared that with that in mind, it was a real masterpiece.
Plus, (keeping in mind that we are talking of US citizens, but French-born in their 70s) the husband of a friend of one not only didn't understand the end, but thought it was borderline pornographic. She couldn't understand that, and thought it was an excellent movie. Vive les femmes!
Plus, (keeping in mind that we are talking of US citizens, but French-born in their 70s) the husband of a friend of one not only didn't understand the end, but thought it was borderline pornographic. She couldn't understand that, and thought it was an excellent movie. Vive les femmes!
Jul 31st, 2003, 07:44 PM
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"Dirty Pretty things"with Audrey Tautou was excellant. She proves she's not such a pretty face playing a Turkish immigrant workig in a London Hotel.
Not for the squeamish.
Not for the squeamish.
