Seen any good films lately?

Ive seen those "Asterix" films advertised, I saw the 1st one YEARS ago, they are daft,but fun ! I use to like watching the kids cartoon of Asterix. I like Gérard Depardieu very much. Reminds me of another set of silly French films.."les visiteurs", with Jean Reno.

I LOVED that film. its all the medieval timey wimey stuff, its great fun.

Yeah its great fun. I like quite abit of French cinema- it has a visual richness (and oddness) all its own.
Loved City of Lost CHildren too.

Yeah, that was a good one also ! There IS a richness & depth that only the French seem to realise & tap into, seen Angel-A ? its a Luc Besson film, "A very Long Engagement"..."The extraudinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-sec" ?

I liked Betty Blue and Amelie and a fav of mine is Queen Margot with Isabelle Adjani, its AMAZING, i remember when I saw it I was nearly physically sick it was so brutal and yet visually gorgeous
Also Cyrano de Bergerac was very beautiful. The French do music and historic atmosphere very well.

I like Isabelle adjani, she was good in "Diabolique".

omg, asterix!! i love them! I used to read the comics when i was little, i think i still own a copy of two. they're genius and so funnt xD Kleopatra for example..

oh and there is a movie where the two only viking women are called Ikea and Abba


that viking picture above looks about right.

i've always wondered if asterix in Britain is in english as funny as it is in german and how it is funny in the french orginal

also amelie is such a magical film

i need to watch this, i have the two previous movies and i also have some comic-films (animated..)

(hilarously called the Normans throughout on the subtitles for some reason!)- Petty.

Vikings that settled in France settled in Normandie, why they are called normans i have no idea, cus that's the french, but maybe they're mixing them up with Nordmenn(north men)/norwegians btw, the funny thing is that if you tell a typical norwegian joke in france they won't get it and just be like "da fuuq?", but in normandie they suddenly understand the jokes the humour survived.

there weren't any vikings in france though? well there were the english decended from the vikings but they weren't really proper vikings lol

amelie is a really french movie

CC12 35 wrote:there weren't any vikings in france though? well there were the english decended from the vikings but they weren't really proper vikings lol

yes, there were vikings in france. Norwegians went to scotland, those islands around, danish down witht he french, sweeds towards russia and down on rivers in central europe as we call Gardariket.

i know my shit bro.

yes norc but normans aren't vikings

Norc wrote:amelie is a really french movie

amélie is the best movie. i smile the entire time I watch it

me too

Nordmenn- thats what it sounds like they say in the film (which of course is in French) its just the subtitles calls them Normans throughout instead of North men or norse men.
Plus the english accents are fantastic- cleverly they have gone for casting Brit actors who can do the french, rather than French actors pretending to be english- works like a charm.

CC12 35 wrote:yes norc but normans aren't vikings

that's what i said. but i do believe Normandie is named after the norwegian/north men that settled there. but normans are french.

Pettytyrant101 wrote:Nordmenn- thats what it sounds like they say in the film (which of course is in French) its just the subtitles calls them Normans throughout instead of North men or norse men.

i dunno at all why they do it, i'll ask around..

Plus the english accents are fantastic- cleverly they have gone for casting Brit actors who can do the french, rather than French actors pretending to be english- works like a charm.

of course that's better.

Yeah but I was a bit suprsied- you know how, funny, the French can be about things being French and only French!

maybe it's deliberate

Norc wrote:

CC12 35 wrote:yes norc but normans aren't vikings

that's what i said. but i do believe Normandie is named after the norwegian/north men that settled there. but normans are french.

that's what i said lol x

Watched the woman in black last night, staring Daniel Radcliffe (harry potter)
Not a bad film, made me jump a couple of times.

This is a funny French film !
I saw "Woman in Black" & thought it was reasonably good. Made me jump as well ! The bit that got me was,when Radcliffe was facing the hall & the lights went out one by one Bugger if Id stay in a creepy old house on my own !!

Tout les matins du monde with Gerard, a beautiful and sad story of a musician who has an old music teacher with a beautiful daughter, she falls in love and slowly kills herself when the musician (played by Gerards real son) Leaves her to become famous and work for the king. The music is mind boggling.its enough to make your soul weep tears of blood

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