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French culture recommendations

altlover85

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What are your favorite French films, songs, artists, etc.?

I don't have much experience in this realm but here I go.

As far as films go, I've liked Jules et Jim (great story, some very cool images), Cleo 9 to 5 (lots of cool images of Paris in the early 60's), and High Tension, which is a horror film.

As far as musicians go I like Madeleine Peyroux and Edith Piaf. Stacey Kent has done some nice French songs, as has Carla Bruni.

Finally, a few French artists I like are Jacques Louis David, who did some great Neoclassical paintings like the Death of Marat, Nicolas Poussin, due to his use of color and composition, and Renoir, for his lively paintings.

If there is a thread like this, please direct me to it and close this one.

I look forward to your input!
 
I loved "Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain", and "Les roseaux sauvages" was good also.
 
I'll check out Les Rouseaux Savages. I have Amelie, but still need to watch it.

Thanks for the suggestions.
 
Amelie

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Three Colours: Red; Three Colours: Blue; Three Colours: White

My Father's Glory

My Mother's Castle

The 400 Blows

The Rules of the Game

Children of Paradise...

...there are others, I just can't think of them off the top of my head.
 
Thanks to all who have replied thus far. I appreciate it!
 
La Vie en Rose
Jeux D'enfants is also a cute movie with a similar feel to Amelie
Science of Sleep if u like ur off kilter indie movies
 
C'mon now, Jean Genet guys. Too obvious?

Serge Gainsbourg's film, je t'aime moi non plus, with Joe Dallesandro is fun:

 
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Poetry: . Villon, Baudelaire & Rimbaud

Novelists: . Balzac, Hugo, Verne, Flaubert, Gide, Radiguet... (I don't like Proust)

Painters: . Manet, Rops, Rouault


Film: . Renoir; directors of the so called Nouvelle Vague:
........ Mallet ('Les amants', 'Le feu follet'), Truffaut, Chabrol...


And especially those dark, noir-inspired ganster flicks of
Jean-Pierre Melville from the sixties and early seventies:

- Le Doulos ('The Finger Man')
- L’Aîné des Ferchaux ('Magnet of Doom')
- Le Deuxième Souffle ('Second Breath')
- Le Samouraï ('The Samourai')
- L' Armée des ombres ('Army of Shadows')
- Le Cercle rouge ('The Red Circle')
- Un flic ('Dirty Money')



...not to forget 'Compartiment tueurs' ('The Sleeping Car Murders'):

A thriller directed by Greek Costa-Cavras in France, starring Yves
Montand, Simone Signoret, Michel Piccoli, Jean-Louis Trintignant...
(wíth some gay & bisex-references).




........................................................ Easy-going comedies ?


............................................. Well... - Muskattnuss!, Dr. Müller . :cool:



[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GkZFBmBYSM[/ame]


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Not to forget 'Compartiment tueurs' ('The Sleeping Car Murders'):

Directed in France by Greek Costa-Gavras. Starring Yves Mon-
tand, Simone Signoret, Michel Piccoli, Jean-Louis Trintignant...
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Costa-Gavras, of course. He later also directed the famous polit-thriller 'Z'.




.................................... The end of Michel Piccoli in 'Compartiment tueurs'



[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qsak6mKb8c[/ame]


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....... Three original trailers: from Melville's 'Le Cercle Rouge' , 'Le Samourai' & 'Le Doulos'





[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LK-RhywuKk[/ame]



[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lFoTyuBEb8[/ame]



[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-NbnHocnFk[/ame]


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altlover85 said:
What are your favorite French films, songs, artists, etc.?

I don't have much experience in this realm but here I go.

As far as films go, I've liked Jules et Jim (great story, some very cool images), Cleo 9 to 5 (lots of cool images of Paris in the early 60's), and High Tension, which is a horror film.

I look forward to your input!
Click to expand...


Did you just watch the few clips from Cléo de 5 à 7 that are on YouTube? The 1964 film by Agnès Varda – who, incidentally, got her start, working for Jean-Luc Godard, whom you also must not ignore – is one of my favorites. I posted the song from the film, Sans toi by Michel Legrand (sung by Corinne Marchand, the lead actress), in the thread in this forum, 'Songs that can make you cry,' not so long ago (Use 'Search this Thread' to find it).

The title – Cléo 'de 5 à 7,' BTW, not '9 to 5' – refers not to the title character's working day (though it's a clever play on the 'traditional' time in the afternoon/evening when married 'gentlemen' had liaisons with their 'kept' lovers – of either sex – and Cléo indeed has just such an encounter in the course of the film with her 'sugar daddy'), but to the fact the film was shot in sequential scenes that match 'real time,' and it is (approximately) two hours in a day of the life of 'Cléo.' Individual scenes are introduced with title cards that announce the time of the coming scene in the minutes from 5 to 7 p.m.

As much as I appreciate Barolojoe's love of 'film noir,' and respect the work of Melville, more to my taste is the original version of 'The Talented Mr Ripley' (based on Patricia Highsmith's novel of that name – she, also the author of Hitchcock's classic 'noir' Strangers on a Train – from 1960, Plein Soeil [Purple Noon], directed by René Clément. It starred Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet and Marie Laforêt, and the music was composed by Fellini's life-long collaborator, Nino Rota.


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mDuPjZCR6U&fmt=18"]Plein Soleil René Clément[/ame]
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OK, so not an epic film I must admit, but 'Taxi' is a fond favourite of mine.. We always used to watch it in French class at school, and only since I've left have I seen past the 1 hour mark :D

Tom
 
- la haine ( french classic 90's movie)
- dikke nek (french view on belgium french lifestyle)
- l'ennemi public nr 1 ( escape artist prison movie)

music :

- jacque brel ( ne me quitte pas , ....)
- france gall
- michel polnareff ( love me , please love me)

if you like crazy electronic music check the album : bippp
it's a compilation with all 80's paris electronic new wave stuff

i guess you can find all on youtube.... because i dont have 25 posts i cant do it direct for some reason

maybe more later.....
 
Cinéma:
Le violon rouge
Le roi danse

Also, though it is in English; Lillies.
 
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