Showing posts with label french movie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label french movie. Show all posts

March 18, 2008

L’invité (The Dinner Guest), by Laurent Bouhnik


This finely paced comedy is sheer lighthearted lunacy, with three great star talents in top form; Thierry Lhermitte, Valérie Lemercier and the remarkable Daniel Auteuil.Unemployed for three years, Gerard has landed a job in Indonesia. To start off on the right foot with his "team leader", Gerard invites him to dinner but as his wife Colette has no culinary skills, this may or may not be the brightest idea he's ever had. Thankfully, neighbour Alexandre comes to the rescue and after a series of hilarious mishaps and misunderstandings; Gérard and Colette open their door and welcome their dinner guest...Let the mayhem begin!

May 01, 2007

A Very Long Engagement, by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
From the director and star of "Amelie" (Audrey Tautou) comes a very different love story, "A Very Long Engagement," based on the acclaimed novel by Sebastien Japrisot. The film is set in France near the end of World War I in the deadly trenches of the Somme, in the gilded Parisian halls of power, and in the modest home of an indomitable provincial girl. It tells the story of this young woman's relentless, moving and sometimes comic search for her fiancée, who has disappeared. He is one of five French soldiers believed to have been court-martialed under mysterious circumstances and pushed out of an allied trench into an almost-certain death in no-man's land. What follows is an investigation into the arbitrary nature of secrecy, the absurdity of war, and the enduring passion, intuition and tenacity of the human heart.

April 29, 2007

Paris, je t'aime

One City. 10 Millions Hearts. One Love Story. One Film.

Through the neighbourhoods of Paris, love is veiled, revealed, imitated, sucked dry, reinvented, and awakened. A stunning line up of internationally renowned directors and actors rediscover the city of Paris in a collective work about love.