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21 Mar 2023, 10:46 am

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Le Placard- a man pretends to be gay to prevent being fired by his employer.

Thanks for the recommendations! I just watched this one. BRILLIANT!! !

It is so funny isn't it. The scene where the couple are having sex in the factory and the boss tells his visitors- 'those are our condom testers.'

And obviously, it makes a commentary about people's attitudes. I might watch it again.

Are you interested in any other foreign language films because I know some South Korean ones, as you mentioned, also Icelandic and Swedish and all sorts.

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21 Mar 2023, 11:45 am

KitLily wrote:

Are you interested in any other foreign language films because I know some South Korean ones, as you mentioned, also Icelandic and Swedish and all sorts.

Sure! Maybe start a separate topic for each. I haven't seen very many Icelandic movies.

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22 Mar 2023, 9:02 am

I don't think I should start a separate topic for each. I might start one for 'Foreign Language Films to recommend' or something.

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24 Mar 2023, 6:41 am

La Belle et la Bête (1946)
Directed by Jean Cocteau.

Watched this on the big screen in 2013 at the Phoenix cinema in East Finchley. Introduced by Mark Kermode. There was a panel discussion at the end with him, cultural historian Sir Christopher Frayling and a psychotherapist Margaret Rustin.

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24 Mar 2023, 7:03 am

More great French films I've seen:

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

The Wages of Fear

Angel-A

Caché

Tell No One

Love Me If You Dare

He Loves Me He Loves Me Not

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24 Mar 2023, 7:35 am

I enjoyed Subway many years ago. It stars Christophe Lambert, I think it was in French and he played a thief.

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29 Mar 2023, 10:31 pm

KitLily wrote:

I also like:

Romauld et Juliette- a CEO falls in love with the office cleaning lady.

Thanks for the recommendation! I just watched this one. A beautiful movie!

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30 Mar 2023, 4:27 am

Honey69 wrote:

KitLily wrote:

I also like:

Romauld et Juliette- a CEO falls in love with the office cleaning lady.

Thanks for the recommendation! I just watched this one. A beautiful movie!

Oh good, I'm glad you loved it. I watched it many, many decades ago so I can't remember it, but I'm glad it stood the test of time.

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30 Mar 2023, 7:21 pm

KitLily wrote:

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KitLily wrote:

I also like:

Romauld et Juliette- a CEO falls in love with the office cleaning lady.

Thanks for the recommendation! I just watched this one. A beautiful movie!

Oh good, I'm glad you loved it. I watched it many, many decades ago so I can't remember it, but I'm glad it stood the test of time.

Well, yes. No cell phones. But, really well done!

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25 Apr 2023, 10:29 pm

Jacky au royaume des filles

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2382422

Something of a Feminist dystopia

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26 Apr 2023, 6:34 am

It is so great to see films without mobile phones now isn't it.

I watched an episode of Howards' Way from the 1980s. The woman was sitting on her sofa doing a crossword! And her husband was in a chair reading a book! No TV, no internet, no phones. Refreshing.

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26 Apr 2023, 8:19 am

I really enjoyed L'Argent de poche. Not certain if anyone else mentioned this.

Interestingly, when I was 20 I spent an autumn in a small city in France and sometimes there was little else to do but go to the cinema. I saw a lot of French B-Movies that weren't intended for international distribution. TV in France still sucked in those days. Enlightening experience. They still had news reels back then.

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11 Jun 2023, 8:32 pm

A very long engagement

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11 Jun 2023, 8:41 pm

Delicatessen [1991] is not a huge film but it is a masterpiece!

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15 Jun 2023, 4:33 pm

Misslizard wrote:

I liked Amelie

i really liked that movie too...OP should watch it

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01 Jul 2023, 9:09 pm

I just watched Cet obscur objet du désir

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075824/

Quite brilliant. About a rich French geezer who is in love with a poor Spanish teenager, who continuously degrades him.

Similar to La femme et le pantin, which starred Brigitte Bardot.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051608/

Interestingly, Cet obscur objet du désir had TWO actresses playing the same character.

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