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Might a well kick it off myself with Kontroll, a 2003 Hungarian comedy drama set in a fictionalised version of the Budapest metro, focusing in Bulcsu, an eccentric ticket inspector & his amiable colleagues with a love story & possible killer thrown in. Well worth a go, not the deepest film you'll ever see but we can get into existentialism later if this goes anywhere.
Might a well kick it off myself with Kontroll, a 2003 Hungarian comedy drama set in a fictionalised version of the Budapest metro, focusing in Bulcsu, an eccentric ticket inspector & his amiable colleagues with a love story & possible killer thrown in. Well worth a go, not the deepest film you'll ever see but we can get into existentialism later if this goes anywhere.
vixen1700 said:
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0480669/
The Spanish film, Timecrimes is excellent.
Yeah, Mesrine was in two parts.
Shouldn't let Timecrimes pass without note, it is indeed excellent.The Spanish film, Timecrimes is excellent.
Yeah, Mesrine was in two parts.
gt40steve said:
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A pleasant French comedy, from 2008 if I remember correctly.
Comedy, love story, we found it funny and well worth the sub titles.
I think that is a very under the radar film that more people should see. Warm hearted & a decent recurring gag around a guy from the riviera forced to work in Normandy, who can't understand a word anyone is saying to him.A pleasant French comedy, from 2008 if I remember correctly.
Comedy, love story, we found it funny and well worth the sub titles.
Only seen Jean Pierre-Jeunet mentioned once with Cty of lost children. I love his quirky visual style, Wes Anderson mentions him as an infuence. Amelie was a big hit & is worthy of the praise but the one for me is Delicatessen. A butcher running a post apocalyptic boarding house hires live in handymen who unwittingly end up on the chopping block until he meets his match in Dominique Pinon.
Sample line - I may be a butcher but I don't mince my words. Lovely.
Sample line - I may be a butcher but I don't mince my words. Lovely.
Skeptisk said:
Didn’t the US version have a happy ending? Which missed the point of the original.
Couldn't tell you, I never got round to it after seeing the reviews. Pretty sure Tarantino took a big chunk out of The Vanishing for Kill Bill part two where Beatrix is buried alive although that might just be my imagination.mikef said:
It’s about the Nord region rather than Normandy - Bergues, just south of Dunkirk. The linguistic gags are around the Picard dialect - “les meubles, c’est les chiens”
It's been a minute since I saw it, so my recollection may be slightly hazy but I think I got the attraction of it across. Incidentally, in looking it up, I dicovered it's the highest grossing French film of all time.Edited by mikef on Saturday 10th February 22:42
On animation, Waltz with Bashir left a mark. As relevant today as it was when made.
Force Majeure last week. Didn't really gel with it as I'd hoped. Tale of a family on holiday in a ski resort & a controlled explosion prompts the husband to leg it, erroneously thinking he's about to be caught up in an avalanche, leaving his wife & children behind. What follows is fairly pedestrian marital tension. Think it was remade for laughs in Hollywood & called Downhill?
The zone of interest last night at the cinema. Going to include this here as it is in German & subtited but written & directed by Jonathan Glazer.
It focuses on Rudolf Hoss, the longest serving commandant of Auschwitz & moreover, the duality of a loving family man, raising four children in what initially look like idyllic surroundings, taking the kids swimming & fishing and living in a comfortable house that literally abuts the walls of the camp, who then goes to work to oversee murder by the thousands.
You never see the interior of Auschwitz, the focus instead is on the indifference to the bestiality occurring just out of sight but heard throughout the film. shouting, screams, gunfire & dogs barking. It's always in the background while you see the family living a near perfect life. Lots of Jonathan Glazer touches too. Fair to say it leaves a mark.
It focuses on Rudolf Hoss, the longest serving commandant of Auschwitz & moreover, the duality of a loving family man, raising four children in what initially look like idyllic surroundings, taking the kids swimming & fishing and living in a comfortable house that literally abuts the walls of the camp, who then goes to work to oversee murder by the thousands.
You never see the interior of Auschwitz, the focus instead is on the indifference to the bestiality occurring just out of sight but heard throughout the film. shouting, screams, gunfire & dogs barking. It's always in the background while you see the family living a near perfect life. Lots of Jonathan Glazer touches too. Fair to say it leaves a mark.
Edited by President Merkin on Thursday 29th February 08:59
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