Thread: Foreign Films

I have watched two foreign films recently that I highly recommend. I will describe them, so you can decide whether they are your cup of team, and make a comment or two.

Of course, it would be nice to compare notes, should you have seen these movies...

Rezien Cazado (Just Married) [Mexico]

A wonderful romantic comedy where a Don Juan meets his match, and then some. Watched it, and laughed all the way thru. Invited some Mexican friends over - we are all reasonably straight church going types with only a modest amount of sin in our lives. Part way thru they told us there was a lot of use of "bad Mexican words." Well, heck! They weren't in the subtitles.

They were laughing when they told us. I felt foolish. But, it was all good.

And, so was the movie!

Mutluluk (Bliss) [Turkey]

A girl shepherd is raped. The family is obliged to kill her to protect their honor. There are some interesting twists and turns. But, a true Dr Zhivago type wrenching, moving love story.


(And, yes, I picked these movies out of a hat late at night, and they are both love stories, and yes I am getting my testosterone levels checked this week, and no you shouldn't make fun of me because I'm still a little teary after last night's viewing of Bliss!)

La Haine is a great French film about the troubles in the banlieu difficiles in Paris during the 1990's. Very gripping to watch!

Originally Posted by Stubear

La Haine is a great French film about the troubles in the banlieu difficiles in Paris during the 1990's. Very gripping to watch!

That sounds like a movie I would enjoy. Reminds me, in a way, of a British film showing a small kid getting pulled into a gang. Sorry, can remember the name of the movie.

Originally Posted by LarryAndro

That sounds like a movie I would enjoy. Reminds me, in a way, of a British film showing a small kid getting pulled into a gang. Sorry, can['t] remember the name of the movie.

That's the problem with every good foreign flick I've watched, I can't remember the titles. Except for the red balloon, I remember that title

Foreign film to you or foreign film to me? Anything coming out of Hollywood is foreign to me :-)

"Battleship Potemkin" is about my extent of forgein films I figured I'd start and end with the best. Although I did see another Russian film no idea of the name, shot all in one frame. It was about 3 hours long and still holds the record for longest single frame, it was well done and at no point did the lack of "cuts" get in the way of the story, although it was a supremely boring movie.

Originally Posted by LX_Emergency

Foreign film to you or foreign film to me? Anything coming out of Hollywood is foreign to me :-)

There's a lot of crap coming out of everywhere. And, some good thrown in once in awhile. For example, the Mexican film above, Rezien Cazado, was very well done. But, my Mexican friends say that Mexican movies are almost universally sheisse and drek. (First time I've ever used those words in print. Spelled right?)

As an aside, can I admit that I sometimes watch Mexican game shows? (I understand taco and burrito, those two Spanish words.)

Originally Posted by thehekler

... Although I did see another Russian film no idea of the name, shot all in one frame. ...

That got my curiousity up...

Told in one fluid shot, a tale which floats like a dreamlike journey through the majestic spaces of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, engaging real and imagined characters from Russian and European history. The nameless protagonist, a 19th-century French diplomat, guides the audience through a lost, sumptuous dream that was the Enlightenment period. The film, staged among some of the Western Art tradition's greatest masterpieces, climaxes in a pageant of color, motion, and music. For Sokurov, the Hermitage--home to generations of Romonovs and repository of so much Russian history--is the ark of the Russian soul, guarding it affectionately until the world sees better days.
Source(s):
Russian Ark (2002) - IMDb

french film called "36", knocks spots off Heat

Foreign films are the only thing going just now. Hollywood can't come up with an idea unless it's a remake.