Das kino foreign language movies thread

[Skeptisk]

No one seems to have mentioned Almodovar’s films yet, such as Volver:

https://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?p=volver+film&a...

Lots with Penelope Cruz.

[RichFN2]

Elite Squad (both films)
Everyone knows Wagner Moura as Pablo Escobar from Narcos, but but before that he was excellent as a police captain trying to clean up Rio de Janeiro before a visit from the Pope
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0861739/?ref_=ext_shr_l...

The Handmaiden
Korean drama about a woman hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, but the maid has a dark secret.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4016934/?ref_=ext_shr_l...

The Chaser

Excellent Korean thriller about an ex detective who is now a pimp has to track down his missing women.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1190539/?ref_=ext_shr_l...

[Den Den]

Skeptisk said:

No one seems to have mentioned Almodovar’s films yet, such as Volver:

https://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?p=volver+film&a...

Lots with Penelope Cruz.

I like some of his stuff, Women on the edge of a Nervous Breakdown is pretty good, with the very striking Rossy de Palma in the cast.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Amores Perros - Mexican film, a bit like Pulp Fiction, but miles better. (and I like Pulp Fiction).

[durbster]

Watched Force Majeure last night. I dunno where I heard about it but I've had it on my list for ages and finally got to it. It's by the director of Triangle of Sadness (which I loved) but it's not quite as bonkers as that.

The final act didn't quite click for me but overall I thought it was excellent and well worth watching. Really good film making.

Apparently there was a Will Ferrell Hollywood remake which looks like total dogst, so be careful not to pick that one up.

[egomeister]

The Count said:

That's the one I've been looking for....the 'fingers as goggles' scene. Excellent and one i'd recommend you read nothing about it before watching it, for full effect (not even the IMBD synopsis)

Sometimes reading nothing before watching makes the film.

One that I watched years ago like this was a French/Georgian film called 13 Tzameti. Might have to give it another watch now I have forgotten most of the details!

[President Merkin]

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”

Edited by mikef on Saturday 10th February 22:42

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.

On animation, Waltz with Bashir left a mark. As relevant today as it was when made.

[vixen1700]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072353/

Les Valseuses 1974

Haven't seen this in many years so not sure if it's aged well or not.

Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeois characters value: whether it's cars, peace of mind, or daughters. Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor. She's on her own search for seemingly unattainable sexual pleasure.—

It was one we were all talking about at school the next day when it was on the telly.

[toasty]

Skeptisk said:

No one seems to have mentioned Almodovar’s films yet, such as Volver:

https://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?p=volver+film&a...

Lots with Penelope Cruz.

I do enjoy an Almodovar film, especially the ones with Penelope.

[RizzoTheRat]

I keep getting spammed by facebook adverts for Robot Dreams, but haven't really paid that much attention to them. More than just the twee kids animation I'd assumed it was then?

[mikef]

Is that the one with un robot carnívoro psicópata ?

[NGK210]

Mr Hulot’s Holiday (Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot)

Subway

The Lovers on the Bridge (Les Amants du Pont-Neuf)

Belle Epoque (1992, Spain)

The Apartment (L'appartement)

A Very Long Engagement (Un Long Dimanche de Fiançailles)

Open Your Eyes (Abre Los Ojos)

36 (36 Quai des Orfèvres)

Tell No One (Ne le Dis à Personne)

Headhunters (Hodejegerne)

The Raid (Serbuan Maut)

Pain and Glory (Dolor y Gloria)

Parallel Mothers (Madres Paralelas)

Netflix:
Dark (Germany)
Money Heist (La Casa de Papel)

BBC:
Spiral (Engrenages)

[Turtle Shed]

As someone who has been learning German via Duolingo for 412 consecutive days I am proud to say that I could translate "Das kino". :-)

[mikef]

Turtle Shed said:

As someone who has been learning German via Duolingo for 412 consecutive days I am proud to say that I could translate "Das kino". :-)

Already been mentioned, but Lola Rennt (aka Run, Lola Run) is great for brushing up on your German, due to the repetition in its scenes. And a decent film too

[BunkMoreland]

Outside of La haine and Der Untergang. Which most have seen

Film. I really enjoyed "The Connection" Its basically the true story of what was going on in Southern France with the drugs trade. (At the same time that Popeye Doyle was running around NYC)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkfcx-9iQf8

Tried "The Square" But couldnt get into it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUzRjRv0Ib0&t=...


In TV I binged "El Chapo" a few years back after catching some episodes on a Long Haul Virgin flight!

Very much in the mould of "Narcos" And it sort of fits if you watch it after "Narcos Mexico" Which is when Felix Gallardo was declining and Chapo was taking over


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeq1cBzgnzA



I'm currently watching "Tokyo Vice" which although a US/JPN production, has made me wonder if Japanese cinema has something I may enjoy. Anyone got recommendations?

[mikef]

BunkMoreland said:

I'm currently watching "Tokyo Vice" which although a US/JPN production, has made me wonder if Japanese cinema has something I may enjoy. Anyone got recommendations?

Mishima, a life in 4 Chapters
Historic movies by Kurosawa: Kagemusha, Ran, Seven Samurai

[egomeister]

There was a bunch of Japanese horror in the late 90's/early 00's that often got remade in the US that are probably worth a watch if you haven't seen them - The Ring, The Grudge etc.

Something not horror that I enjoyed was Zatoichi starring Takeshi Kitano (he of the Takeshi's Castle gameshow if you have ever seen that)

[President Merkin]

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?

[President Merkin]

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.

Edited by President Merkin on Thursday 29th February 08:59

[croyde]

Watched 'Look who's back' last night. A satirical German film in the style of Borat, where Hitler wakes up in modern day Berlin fresh from his bunker in 1945.

He becomes a TV and YouTube sensation as he travels the country talking to ordinary German citizens.

Even the director of the film was quite shocked at a lot of the people's pro right attitudes.