Looking for recs on French movies. Recently started learning the language and figured watching some movies oughta help.
I've looked for lists on the net but it feels kind of hit and miss, since a lot of the listed movies seem to fall into the shittiest strata of vanguardist behaviour. So far I've seen:
>Pierrot le fou A good movie, but at times taking too far the po-mo shtick. Most of the references feel shoehorned as an attempt to gain street-cred with the cool kids. Interesting nonetheless, and very pleasing to the eye.
>Lola Montés Got me bored a third through. Nothing of interest was happening, and the photography in itself wasn't good enough to keep me enthralled.
>La passion de Jeanne d'Arc Amazing in every possible way; definitely got ahold a place as one of my favourite pics ever... but unfortunately silent, so not of much help with the language.
>Les quatre cents coups Rich storyline, good dialogue, and pacing. A great movie.
For whatever it's worth, these are some of favourite movies: >2001, Andrei Rublev, Midnight Cowboy, Barry Lyndon, Aguirre der Zorn Gottes, Apocalypse now, Lawrence of Arabia, Dersu Uzala, and The Human Condition.
Nothing too fancy certainly, but perhaps it can serve as a lead to get a rec for something in French. Thanks in advance.
do you necessarily want to watch "artsy/pretencious" movies or just good classics ?
les tontons flingueurs is a must
Jack Martin
Watch "Quai des brumes" Marcel Carné " La tête d'un homme" Duvivier Also don't watch recent french movie they all suck I guess you could try les frère d'ardennes which are belgian director pretty renowned in the movie industry but they're a bit special Try "L'enfant"
Luis Murphy
La Haine La Reine Margot Germinal Amelie (yes, really) Betty Blue (extended cut)
Joshua Williams
>frère d'ardennes kek
Isaiah Thompson
Rrrrrrr! Humains Les Dalton Le Baltringue
Sebastian Sullivan
La 317ème Section L'Armée Des Ombres Le Salaire de la Peur L'Année Dernière A Marienbad Un Condamné A Mort S'est Echappé
Le Silence de la Mer Le Doulos Léon Morin, Prêtre Le Samourai Le Deuxième Souffle Le Cercle Rouge Mon Oncle Playtime Z L'Aveu La Vérité Diabolique Ascenceur Pour L'Echaffaud Le Trou La Grande Illusion L'Atalante Je t'aime, je t'aime King of Hearts L'Homme de Rio Mélodie en sous-sol Cent mille dollars au soleil Week-end à Zuydcoote I Comme Icare Une Femme Mariée La Jetée Classes Tous Risques Seul Contre Tous Judex Les Yeux Sans Visage Les Enfants du Paradis L'Enfer Buffet Froid Le Grand Amour Les Croix de Bois Capitaine Conan
avoid
Gabriel Jones
>Le Baltringue This. Also "L'Âme-sœur" by Jean-Marie Bigard and "Les Clefs de bagnole" by Laurent Baffie.
Connor Clark
Les Nouvelles Aventures d'Aladin. The "Camping" trilogy.
Lmao this movie >Belgian cinema is where it's at pleb. But this is unironically true
Grayson Watson
>t ?
William Mitchell
>avoid La Haine
Congrats, you're a pseud and a pleb at the same time.
Kayden Hughes
Taxi Les Visiteurs : Ils ne sont pas nés d'hier
Only french kinoma
Lucas Hill
>not Les Visiteurs en Amérique
Julian Young
?????????????
Evan Sanders
He's right, La Haine is shit, I don't understand how you don't consider the entriest of entry level flicks pleb or pseud. Actually I do, you consider yourself a "patrician" but you like stupid, vapid shit like La Haine so you try to rationalize your plebness so as not to lose your perception of yourself as a cultured dude. In short fuck you pseud
Landon Butler
Good french movies/flicks : OSS 117 Delicatessen L'Homme de Rio La folie Des Grandeurs Les tontons flingueurs
I'll leave cinéma to the other anons
Hunter Hughes
Durendal stop posting here
Lincoln Perry
La Battle Le Algiers
Eli Torres
i would add "la cité des enfants perdus" "bunker palace hotel" "cyrano de bergerac "(1990)
Anthony Parker
...
Adam Ortiz
>you try to rationalize Hey, at least one of us does.
Adrian Bennett
Rationalizing doesn't mean something good in this case, plebe
Nicholas Hill
French guy here
Les enfants du paradis Le trou La vérité and other stuff by Clouzot Ma nuit chez Maud
Christian Gutierrez
Look for "Nid de guêpes" it's kind of an hommage to Carpenter's Attack on Precinct 13 very good movie and also Les Rivières Pourpres with Jean Reno (Léon/The Professional) and Mathieu Kassovitz movies in general
Caleb Ortiz
Duvivier underrated as fuck
Samuel Carter
seconded x 100000
India Song Out 1 Mediterranee Muriel Contempt Sans Soleil La collectioneuse The hypotesis of the stolen painting Libera me Trois Couleurs La vallee close Beau Travail
Isaac Peterson
Filmed in my hometown.
Thomas Rogers
French title is Weekend a Zuydcoote, btw. You can also watch any early Bemondo or Lino Ventura movie: Un Singe en Hiver Le Salaire de La Peur Un Taxi Pour Tobrouk Les Morfalous Peur Sur La Ville Le Magnifique Le Professionnel Les Tontons Flingueurs
Super comfy.
Hunter Brooks
And this.
Lucas Davis
>Les yeux sans visage (eyes without a face)
The beautiful daughter of a surgeon has her faced fuck't up in and accident so her father goes around kidnapping innocent girls and cut off their faces to reconstruct his daughter face. 10/10 horror movie.
also try godards bande a part, one of his most "normal" and accessible ones, but also perheps his best.
jean cocteau la belle et la bete (1946) is the best adaptation of the fairytale.
also check out The Orphic Trilogy (you only really need to watch Orphée if you don't like the alternative weird shit, it works as a stand - alone movie)
Kayden Scott
Good choices. But watch La Haine though.
Cameron Sanders
But Lola Montès is a German movie.
Justin Powell
Les blagues sont bien trop complexes pour un auditeur de bas niveau de français.
Kayden Watson
t. Dinosaure partouzeur de droite
Brayden Wright
Le train de tes injures roule sur le rail de mon indifférence
> normalement l'anglais il explose son cerveau à cette phrase
Joshua Evans
Let's get this shit started: Godard is an overrated hack.
Luke Baker
tu me rappelles georges politiquement
Grayson Ramirez
this
>Beau Travail
OP watch it, it's great
Charles Jackson
What started? The usual bait and shitposting?
Logan Robinson
Intouchables and Blue is the warmest colour.
Robert Hernandez
>La Jetée
Do slideshows count?
Matthew Stewart
>French film thread >50 posts >ctrl-f "Beau-père" >no hits
is Sup Forums kill?
Another French film of note is Tomboy.
Liam Garcia
Nobody has these has favorite movies, they're great movies because they're technical or writing achievements and you study them in cinema school or something but anyone that says it's their favorite movies is just pretentious, these movies are not enjoyable to watch (maybe 2001 or Lawrence but Andrei Rublev? Come on.)
Grayson Brown
>but anyone that says it's their favorite movies is just pretentious, these movies are not enjoyable to watch Classic Sup Forums babby and his pleb insecurities
Brandon Cox
he's right though. When some guy pretends any fellini movie is his favorite he's a fucking poseur
Mason Perez
Sure, sure. Everybody with something you don't approve or doesn't makes sense in your head as 'favorite', is a poseur
Daniel Russell
don't feed the troll.
Jace Hall
That's not what he was implying l2sarcasm
La Haine is worth a watch, anyone claiming otherwise is a contrarian
