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The movie is called Tell No One and it's a pretty entertaining mystery thriller. A doctor hears his wife kidnapped and later finds out she was murdered...or was she? Eight years later he begins receiving emails with video of a woman who looks exactly like his wife, which leads him on a quest to find out what really happened.
I usually find French movies pretentious and plotless but this movie is neither. I highly recommend it.
I liked Tell No One, too.
But there are quite a few French movies that I like.
Have you ever seen Ridicule?
Or Le Retour de Martin Guerre? Or La Cage Aux Folles? (These two were re-made into American movies, but these are the originals.)
And IMHO, anything by Truffaut is pretty darned good.
The French movie sensibility can indeed be different from that of a North American, but in terms of heist movies or thrillers, some of the best I've ever seen were French, (and many of them were remade by Hollywood.)
Check out these crime thrillers:
Rififi
Le Cercle Rouge
Film noir, after all, is a French term. Perhaps what sometimes puzzles American viewers might be structural complexity that is lost in the translation.
And perhaps what we call plotless might really be minimalist--as in the hugely influential Le Samourai.
The movie is called Tell No One and it's a pretty entertaining mystery thriller. A doctor hears his wife kidnapped and later finds out she was murdered...or was she? Eight years later he begins receiving emails with video of a woman who looks exactly like his wife, which leads him on a quest to find out what really happened.
I usually find French movies pretentious and plotless but this movie is neither. I highly recommend it.
How nice of you to write an entire film industry off
It's not worse than Hollywood, there is a fair share of stupid English movies too.
If you start digging its amazing how much "New" Hollywood stuff is actually remade European.
I watched Russell Crowe on Letterman the other night - the new movie he's in with Ben Affleck and Helen Mirren? Based on a British TV mini-series.
Le Pacte des Loups is great fun. Until the last 10 minutes, when it just gets ridiculous. You should definitely check it out, but do yourself a favor and turn it off when Baron von Boner whips out his sword.
Le Pacte des Loups is great fun. Until the last 10 minutes, when it just gets ridiculous. You should definitely check it out, but do yourself a favor and turn it off when Baron von Boner whips out his sword.
I liked Tell No One, too.
But there are quite a few French movies that I like.
Have you ever seen Ridicule?
Or Le Retour de Martin Guerre? Or La Cage Aux Folles? (These two were re-made into American movies, but these are the originals.)
And IMHO, anything by Truffaut is pretty darned good.
The French movie sensibility can indeed be different from that of a North American, but in terms of heist movies or thrillers, some of the best I've ever seen were French, (and many of them were remade by Hollywood.)
Check out these crime thrillers:
Rififi
Le Cercle Rouge
Film noir, after all, is a French term. Perhaps what sometimes puzzles American viewers might be structural complexity that is lost in the translation.
And perhaps what we call plotless might really be minimalist--as in the hugely influential Le Samourai.
Nice post. Many people overlook how important the various European "New Waves" were, especially French New Wave.
Le Pacte des Loups is great fun. Until the last 10 minutes, when it just gets ridiculous. You should definitely check it out, but do yourself a favor and turn it off when Baron von Boner whips out his sword.
Wow, thanks for even caring to mention this one.
The last ten minutes are an atrocity
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