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Author Topic: Your Favourite/Top 5 French movies Peter Berrett Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 602 From: Victoria, Australia Registered: Nov 2000 posted 03-18-2006 06:30 AM                        Hi all I am very interested in French & to a lesser extent French Canadian cinema. I would be interested to hear of your top (favourite) 5 French movies overall (in order of preferance). I'll start the ball rolling with my 5. As I like farce it is no surprise that they are all comedies. 1. La Cage Aux Folles 2. Delicatessen 3. La Vengeance D'une Blonde 4. Les Soeurs Soleil 5. Amelie With an honorable mention of the following films, - Cite Des Enfants Perdu - Gross Fatigue - Sue Un Air D'Autoroute (I have yet to see the full film but the little I have seen makes me want to see it badly. About my favourite films. The number 1 film is La Cage Aux Folles which is a rather cheaply made but extraordinarily funny film. What really makes the film however is the way the two lead actors, Michel Serrault & Ugo Tognazzi, ham up their roles as two gay men. The film was remade as The Birdcage however that film is a pale shadow of the original. An absolute must see film. Delicatessen is my favouite film from Jean-Pierre Jeunet. It is a very black comedy centred around cannibalism but Jeunet handles the subject with good humour. He is ably supported by a wide cast of very good French character actors. The film is stylish and arty and some of the scenes extremely memorable. It could never be remade by the US film industry. La Vengeance D'Une Blonde & Les Soeurs Soleil are two very fuuny films both starring Marie-Anne Chazel. It is hard to split the two but La Vengeance D'une Blonde wins out as Les Soeurs Soleil at one point turns a little into a road movie. Nonetheless both are very funny and the Australian connections in the latter film are lots of fun to see. Finally Amelie is the final film, more perhaps for its sentimentality, gentleness and beauty than for its comedy. It is just a stunning film that people seem to really like, or to be entirely unable to understand. But it is clearly a classic and to those who can understand it, a film not to be missed. Regards Peter  |  IP: Logged Jeffry L. Johnson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 809 From: Cleveland, Ohio, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 03-18-2006 10:21 AM                        Le dernier combat Les parapluies de Cherbourg Orphee La belle et la bete Napoleon Le voyage dans la lune Reverse chronological order. Melies is a short, so I listed six. If I had to restrict it to five, I'd drop Orphee since Cocteau's La belle et la bete is already on the list.  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 03-18-2006 10:47 AM                     Anything with Brigitte Lahaie is a must see.  |  IP: Logged Thomas Jonsson Expert Film Handler Posts: 216 From: Bromolla, Sweden Registered: Sep 2003 posted 03-18-2006 10:52 AM                       Don Camillo with Fernandel and anything with Louis de Funes. Thomas  |  IP: Logged Jeffry L. Johnson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 809 From: Cleveland, Ohio, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 03-18-2006 01:11 PM                        Checked my Movielens ratings. My other top rated French films are: Les quatre cent coups La grande illusion La jetee Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot La regle du jeu Honorable mention: Alphaville Belle de jour Diva 70mm: Playtime Brigitte Lahaie or {ahem} Brigitte Lahaie How'd I forget Maitresse? [ 03-18-2006, 02:16 PM: Message edited by: Jeffry L. Johnson ]  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 03-18-2006 04:47 PM                        My top five: Le Salaire de la peur (favourite French movie) Un chapeau de paille d'Italie Ascenseur pour l'échafaud Le Cercle rouge L.627 Honourable mentions not mentioned above: Pépé le Moko Le Corbeau Les Diaboliques Kean Un dimanche à la campagne Secret défense Jour de fête (François Ede's Thomsoncolor restoration)  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Jorgenson Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1002 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: Feb 2005 posted 03-18-2006 08:03 PM                        not in any particular order: Mon oncle - Jacques Tati La Jetée - Chris Marker La Grande illusion - Jean Renoir Tirez sur le pianiste - François Truffaut of newer films (since 2000) I haven't had a chance to see too many, but I enjoyed Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien, Le Placard and yeah, I even liked Swimming Pool. if Spaniards making French films count ... then of course Dali & Buñuel's Un chien andalou would have to be included ... likewise if Poles directing French films count, then Kieslowski's Trois couleurs: Bleu, Blanc and Rouge. and ... though sometimes tough to watch, Alain Resnais's documentary Nuit et brouillard is a very important element in the French cinema canon. === hmm, I did this off the top of my head, I'm sure I'm missing something.  |  IP: Logged Michael Coate Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1904 From: Los Angeles, California Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-22-2006 12:49 AM                     1) La Nuit Americaine (Day For Night, 1973) 2) Le Mepris (Contempt, 1963) 3) Jules Et Jim (Jules And Jim, 1962) 4) Le Grande Illusion (The Grand Illusion, 1937) 5) Playtime (1967)  |  IP: Logged Joseph L. Kleiman Master Film Handler Posts: 380 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Apr 2005 posted 03-22-2006 12:28 PM                     1. Le quartre cents coups (The 400 Blows) 2. Le sang d un poete (Blood of a Poet) 3. Et Dieu... crea la femme (And God Created Woman) 4. Le samourai 5. Horoshima mon amour  |  IP: Logged Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 03-22-2006 01:38 PM                     In no particular order: 1. King Of Hearts 2. Delicatessen 3. City Of Lost Children 4. Mad Adventures Of Rabbi Jacobs 5. Alphaville  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-22-2006 02:59 PM                        In random order: Alphaville Playtime Last Metro (no other votes for this???!?) Day for Night Napoleon Trip to the Moon (short) Most of these have been mentioned above.  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 03-22-2006 03:39 PM                     My favorites are: Mon oncle Du rififi chez les hommes (Rififi) Le Cercle Rouge Day for Night Le Mepris (Contempt) Playtime Bob le Flambeur  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 03-22-2006 03:43 PM                  Scott, I can't believe you list a short but didn't list "The Red Balloon" (Le Ballon rouge)!!! You're the one that got me hooked on that POS! Now it's one of my favorites! Anyway, my favorites (in no particular order) are: 1) "La Cage aux folles" (But both sequels suck. I disagree about "The Birdcage" not being as good.) 2) "Maitresse" 3) "Le Salaire de la peur" / "The Wages of Fear" (I totally agree with Leo. It's my bestest, mostest 'favourite' French movie too!) 4) "Mon oncle" 5) "Playtime" Another Jacques Tati film. 6) "Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot" Still another... Ok, ok, OK! So I listed 6 features...sue me! HA!  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-22-2006 04:45 PM                        Phil, you're right! I was thinking more of features than shorts. Add it to my list.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 03-24-2006 12:38 PM                        quote: Scott Norwood In random order: Alphaville I bet that film was a big influence on Bill Gates, too! Alpha-60's deranged rant as it crashes sounds just like the text on a BSOD...  |  IP: Logged

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