Des films suggérés

Des films suggérés
Films comiques
-L’Auberge espagnole (int’l college student roommates)
-Cyrano de Bergrerac (swords, romance—good 4 Eng. classes)
-Les poupées russes (sequel)
-Queen Margot (sword fighting, romance, etc)
-Les compères (who’s the real father?)
Films animés
-3 hommes & un couffin (original of 3 Men & a baby)
-Le placard (The Closet—man pretends to be gay)
-Persepolis (bio d’une fille iranienne—sensationnel !)
-La chèvre
Science Fiction/Fantaisie
-Les visiteurs (medieval knights travel to future)
-City of Lost Children
-My wife is an Actress (husband jealous of wife’s costars)
-Delicatessen
-Dîner des cons (Who’s really the jerk?)
-Mon oncle (weird comedy, not much talking)
Films Spirituels
-Saving Dr Lewis (Canadian town needs a doctor)
-Of Gods and Men (Cath monks in Algeria in danger--true story)
-The Chef (chef tries to maintain his star rating)
-Thérèse
Comédies romantiques
Films dramatiques
-Après vous (man helps down & out friend)
-Camille Claudel (true tragic story of great artist)
-Maman, il y a un homme dans ton lit!
-Toto le héros (man’s whole life consumed by jealousy)
-Amélie (girl finds amazing ways to right wrongs!)
-Jean de Florette* (city man moves to inherited farm w/family)
-Paper wedding (French version of Green Card)
-Manon des sources* (sequel, concentrates on daughter)
-The Valet (car parker pretends to be girl’s copain)
-A Self-Made Hero (insecure guy totally invents life & army career)
-A la mode (rags to riches story)
-Le Huitième Jour (friendship between 2 guys, 1 handicapped, 1 sad)
-Romantics Anonymous (2 off the charts shy people…)
-Bleu (woman makes new life after tragic car accident)
-Populaire (a hit at the SF Film Festival 2013)
-Rouge (romantic meetings--coincidence or destiny?)
-Est-Oeust (family returns to Russia w/ horrible consequences)
Films about kids/teenagers
-Widow of St. Pierre (murder,romance, guillotine, based on true story)
-les Choristes (music saves troubled kids)
-La vie en rose (bio of Edith Piaf—won ’08 Oscar)
-Etre et avoir (teacher in 1-rm school—10 pupils!)
-Séraphine (life of a woman artist)
-Monsieur Ibrahim (teen boy & mentor)
-My Father’s Glory* (true story of Marcel Pagnol)
Films de guerre
-My Mother’s Castle* (set in Provence, early 1900’s)
-Le dernier métro (WW2-theater director hiding from Nazis)
-Le grand chemin (boy’s summer in country—he grows up!)
-Au revoir les enfants (Jewish kids hiding in Catholic school)
-Small change (1 summer in the lives of many kids)
-Lucie Aubrac (WW2--true story of French resistance fighters)
-La boum (Parties, 1st love, parents’ divorce)
-Bon voyage (WW2--suspense, humor, injustice, justice, romance)
-Peppermint soda (French schoolgirls do schoolgirl things)
-Joyeux noël (WW1-true story of Xmas truce on battlefield)
-Ma vie en rose (boy who dresses like a girl)
-Very Long Engagement (WWI Audrey Tautou looks 4 her bf)
-Look at me (body image issues but she triumphs!)
-Strayed (WW2--mom flees Paris with her 2 kids)
-The First Time I was 20 (girl musician in boy-dominated band)
-Days of Glory (WW 2—racisme anti North African solders)
-Le grand voyage (Muslim teen drives dad to Mecca, unwillingly)
L’armée du crime (WW2 Résistance-based on true story)
-La promesse (teen boy w/criminal dad has difficult decisions)
-Blame it on Fidel (girl reacts badly to parents’ new life style)
Le colonialisme/Racisme
-Accidental Hero (boy teen’s difficult family life)
-Le grand blanc de Lambarène (love/hate of missionary in Africa)
-Ponette (child accepts mother’s death)
-Indochine (epic set in Vietnam: war, romance, etc)
-L’enfant sauvage (child raised by wolves-truish story)
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-Sugar Cane Alley (poor kids in 1930s colonial Martinique)
-The Class (inner city Paris 8 grade class)
-La haine (Hate) (racial profiling & gangs in Paris)
-400 Blows (garçon avec une vie difficile)
-Papillon (neglected little girl’s adventures)
Classiques (if you love old black & white movies!)
-L’Atalante (newlyweds honeymoon on river barge)
Films romantiques
-Le jour se lève (romance, despair)
-Children of Paradise
-Quai des brumes (same + lots of fog !)
-Un homme & une femme (love, kids & race cars)
-La bête humaine (former alcoholic thinks he’s a murderer)
-Un homme & une femme 20 ans déjà (sequel)
-Marius / César / Fanny trilogy (love, sadness, sweetness, humor)
-Les parapluies de Cherbourg (singing only)
-Orpheus (Surrealist take on Orpheus myth—they walk thru walls…)
-La belle et la bête (the original Beauty & the Beast)
-Rules of the Game (war, escape, philosophy, romance)
-anything w/Audrey Tautou
-Pépé le Moko (romance/danger in the Casbah of Algiers)
-Grande Illusion (incredible anti-war film, about WW1 made in 1936)
Suspense/Policier
-Les enfants du paradis (super romantic theater film)
-Diabolique• (very scary boarding school mystery)
-Le salaire de la peur (Will OLD truck carrying TNT in mts. make it?)
-Diva (opera star/postman mystery)
-Elevator to the gallows (100% suspense + Miles Davis score)
-With a Friend like Harry (creepy scary!)
-anything with Fernandel (comedies en noir & blanc)
-Rififi (an INCREDIBLE robbery-15 min heist w/out sound!)
-Samouri (great chase scene in métro)
-Confidentially yours (mystery,danger,romance,rain)
1. Choose your film yourself—you’re the one who’ll watch it!
-8 femmes (8 FABULOUS French actresses, 1 dead man!)
2. Recommend your favorite films to me.
-Ne le dis à personne (dead wife emails husband…)
3. Be sure your film has subtitles!! Dubbed films aren’t acceptable, and
-Roman de gare (suspense every second & minute!)
you won’t understand a film WITHOUT subtitles!
-Man on wire (doc on tightrope walker-won an Oscar)
4. Pay attention to cultural differences if your film takes
-Love Crime (treachery between women CEO’s)
place in relatively modern times—meals, clothes, where they
-Anthony Zimmer (fabulous original of The Tourist)
hang out, how they get around, how their houses look, etc.
Films historiques /Action
5. See a film in a theater if a good one’s playing—très
-La Femme Nikita (l’amour, violence)
sophistiqué!
-Le pacte des loups (Pact of Wolves)
6. If you’re uncertain about a film, in any way, Ask moi!!!
-Danton (révolution française)
-Les Misérables (many versions, be sure yours is en français!)
-Horseman on the Roof (rooftop chases, cholera, romance)
FRENCH 3/3H: Remember your special assignment this year.