Des films suggérés Films animés -Persepolis (bio d’une fille iranienne) Films comiques -L’Auberge espagnole (int’l college student roommates) Science Fiction/Fantaisie -Les poupées russes (sequel) -City of Lost Children -Les compères (who’s the real father?) -Delicatessen -3 hommes & un couffin (original of 3 Men & a baby) -Le placard (The Closet—man pretends to be gay) Films Spirituels / Réligieux -La chèvre -Thérèse (story of Ste Thérèse) -Les visiteurs (medieval knights travel to future) -Jésus de Montréal (Passion play turns real) -anything with Fernandel (noir & blanc) -My wife is an Actress (husband jealous of wife’s costars) Films dramatiques -Dîner des cons (Who’s really the jerk?) -Camille Claudel (true tragic story of great artist) -Mon oncle (weird comedy, not much talking) -Toto le héros (man’s whole life consumed by jealousy) -Jean de Florette* (city man moves to inherited farm w/family) Comédies romantiques -Manon des sources* (sequel, concentrates on daughter ) -Après vous (man helps down & out friend) -A Self-Made Hero (insecure guy totally invents life & army career) -Maman, il y a un homme dans ton lit! -Le Huitième Jour (friendship between 2 guys, 1 handicapped, 1 sad) -Amélie (girl finds amazing ways to right wrongs!) -Bleu (woman makes new life after tragic car accident) -Paper wedding (Green Card en français) -Blanc -The Valet (car parker pretends to be girl’s copain) -Rouge (romantic meetings--coincidence or destiny?) -A la mode (rags to riches story) -Est-Oeust (family returns to Russia w/ horrible consequences) -Widow of St. Pierre (romantic, guillotine, winter) Films about kids/teenagers -La vie en rose (bio of Edith Piaf—won ’08 Oscar) -Etre et avoir (teacher in 1-rm school—10 pupils!) -Séraphine (tragic 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 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) -La promesse (teen boy w/criminal dad has difficult decisions) Le colonialisme/Racisme -Blame it on Fidel (girl reacts badly to parents’ new life style) -Le grand blanc de Lambarène (love/hate of missionary in Africa) -Accidental Hero (boy teen’s difficult family life) -Indochine (epic set in Vietnam: war, romance, etc) -Ponette (child accepts mother’s death) -Sugar Cane Alley (poor kids in 1930s colonial Martinique) -L’enfant sauvage (child raised by wolves-truish story) -La haine (Hate) (racial profiling & gangs in Paris) th -The Class (inner city Paris 8 grade class) -400 Blows (garçon avec une vie difficile) Classiques (if you love old black & white movies!) -Papillon (Don’t get the gangster film w/same title !) -L’Atalante (newlyweds honeymoon on river barge) -Le jour se lève (romance, hopelessness) Films romantiques -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 (surreal version of Orpheus myth) -La belle et la bête (the original Beauty & the Beast) -Rules of the Game (philosophical war movie) -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 film—great for theater -Diabolique• (very scary boarding school mystery) lovers!) -Diva (opera star/postman mystery) -Les visiteurs du soir (angels come to Earth to assist/correct us!) -With a Friend like Harry (creepy scary!) -Rififi (an INCREDIBLE robbery-15 min heist w/out sound!) -Samouri (great chase scene in métro) 1. Choose your film yourself—you’re the one who’s going -Confidentially yours (mystery,danger,romance,rain) to 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 place in -Le salaire de la peur (Will OLD truck carrying TNT make it?) relatively modern times—what, where, when they eat, where they -Elevator to the gallows (100% suspense + Miles Davis score) hang out, how they get around, how their houses look, what they wear, forms of politeness, etc. Films historiques /Action 5. See a film in a theater if a good one’s playing—très sophistiqué! -La Femme Nikita (beaucoup de violence !) 6. If you’re uncertain about a film, in any way, Ask moi!!! -Le pacte des loups (Pact of Wolves) -Danton (revolution française) -Les Misérables (many versions, Belmondo’s recommended) FRENCH 3/3H: At Easter you’ll have to watch a film by a favorite -Horseman on the roof (rooftop chases, cholera, romance) cinéaste or with a favorite actrice/acteur, so this whole year be -Queen Margot (sword fighting, romance, etc) sure you become an expert on this person! -Cyrano de Bergerac (poetry, sword fighting & a big nose!) .