Foreign language movies - Discuss, argue, review

[deeman]

Smala Sussie/Slim Sussie, a really funny film about some guys living in bumfuck, Sweden, whereas a teenage girl has disappeared without a trace, a kinda cooky comedy-thriller where her friends are trying to find out what happened (not giving spoilers but the village-cop sure ain't gonna give a fuck)
highly recommended! Specially if you have grown up in a small village!
Oh, here is a scene were they for no reason at all gives a monologue in Swenglish... Enjoy!

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

The Farewell was really good. Made me think about my grandma a lot. I look forward to seeing what Lulu Wang can do next.

That being said Awkwafina won a Golden Globe for it a few minutes ago and I read a comment that said "BUCKWILD.....WHERE THE FUCK DID YOUR ACCENT GO?!" and I can't stop laughing.

Also there was this gay themed French film from a few years ago I can't remember the name of. About the aids crisis. 48 BPM? It was good.

 

[Silence of the Troons]

Most films I watch nowadays are "foreign" (or rather non-burger films), particularly East Asian ones but I'm pretty open when it comes to exploring cinema from different countries. Aside from a few exceptions current year Hollywood is completely uninteresting to me.

Unless my cold doesn't go away I'm planning to go watch Céline Sciamma's Portrait of a Lady on Fire sometime this week

Also there was this gay themed French film from a few years ago I can't remember the name of. About the aids crisis. 48 BPM? It was good.

You mean 120 BPM (Beats per Minute)?

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

You mean 120 BPM (Beats per Minute)?

Yes thank you. 120 BPM

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

I got the Female Prisoner Scorpion boxset from Arrow Video. I'm curious because I love Kill Bill and Lady Snowblood. I like the image of Meiko Kaji with the black hat.

I'm slightly worried about the rape scenes but my understanding is that you don't really see anything? I can handle nudity as long as it doesn't go into porn territory.

 

[soy_king]

A beautifully filmed but ultimately the most unpleasant movie I've ever seen in my life. I've been trying to get into Aleksei German's movies, as he has some of the best cinematography I've ever seen. Try not to eat while you're watching this.

 

[Hard Toothbrush]

I heartily recommend French comedies with Louis de Funes, the Gendarme series is a lot of fun (well, Gendarme of St Tropez and Gendarme in New York are, the rest sort of blend together in my head)

Spoiler: Gendarme of St Tropez

Ludovic Cruchot, played by Louis de Funes, an older, old-fashioned, no-nonsense policeman (Gendarme) is promoted and transferred from a rural village to the very popular seaside resort of St Tropez. His attitude clashes with the relaxed policemen of St Tropez, there's a subplot with his daughter that then connects with the main plot, hijinks ensue

Spoiler: Gendarme in New York

The Gendarmes of St Tropez are selected to represent France on a law enforcement conference, what could go wrong

And from my neck of the woods I can recommend Polish cult classic Sexmission (no it is NOT a porno)

Spoiler: Sexmission (Seksmisja)

As part of an experiment two men are to be cryogenically frozen for about 5 years. However, because of a Ron Paul-level happening they spend more time in hibernation before being awoken in a new and different society (warning: some spoilery stuff in this trailer)

 

[Man vs persistent rat]

Love in the Afternoon sorta blew my socks off. It has a lot of the same style of romantic truths that My Night at Maud's contains, but from the point of view of an established marriage. It features a dilemma most people will be familiar with, the egotistical fantasy that you can have it both ways - love a wife, but also admire other women, and how far the second can go before it compromises the first. Rohmer's nonjudgemental and genuinely interested style of observation shines clearly as usual. It is emotionally literate in a way that the genre largely abandoned decades ago.

I got the Female Prisoner Scorpion boxset from Arrow Video. I'm curious because I love Kill Bill and Lady Snowblood. I like the image of Meiko Kaji with the black hat.

I'm slightly worried about the rape scenes but my understanding is that you don't really see anything? I can handle nudity as long as it doesn't go into porn territory.

It's not particularly severe. Great film btw, Jailhouse 41 is also worthwhile.

 

[Kaze no Kuronoa]

Has anything been said about Chalard Games Goeng (or Bad Genius) yet?

It's a thriller from Thailand about a straight-A student that, after helping a classmate cheat in an exam, begins to make bank out of teaching other rich students how to cheat to the point of resulting in an international heist during STIC season. Most of the characters are morally-grey and/or have nothing to lose because they have money to cheese their way through the system, and the tension is constant from start to finish.

I watched it a few years ago and I was at the edge of my seat throughout the whole thing; a perfect watch for the finals season.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

La Ceremonie is now in my top 10 favorite movies. Its essentially french Hitchcock. Strange theres no trailer for it.

Its about a maid who is hired to work for a wealthy family. Jacqueline Bisset is the matriarch. Isabelle Huppert costars as the neighborhood postal worker.

I seriously hope Criterion releases it on bluray.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

Double post I know

Something I thought I would never say. Meiko Kaji just started her own YouTube channel (yes it's really her) and its multilingual subtitled. She is celebrating her work. She's doing fine in quarantine, and very energetic she says. Shes in her 70s btw.

 

[BrunoMattei]

A beautifully filmed but ultimately the most unpleasant movie I've ever seen in my life. I've been trying to get into Aleksei German's movies, as he has some of the best cinematography I've ever seen. Try not to eat while you're watching this.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=11sMDQIgggA

I need to finish watching it. Found it too slow. The cinematography is stunning.

 

[Ellesse_warrior]

Goodbye Lenin is my favourite foreign language film

Set in east Berlin when the wall came down. Guys mom wakes up from a coma and the son has to pretend like the wall is still up and everything the same until her health is better. Yannick tiersen does the soundtrack for it so great music too

 

[Battlecruiser3000ad]

Big Bad Wolves, Israeli movie about a guy who kidnaps a possible pedophile and tortures him to make him reveal where he hid his daughter's head. If he did it.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

Delicatessen is a French black comedy about a post-apocalyptic future where a small tenet lures unsuspecting fools in to cook and eat them. The latest person to be employed is a former clown who falls in love with the butcher's daughter.

It's a strange movie, so much so that the trailer isn't really a trailer but just a single snippet of one of the more memorable scenes in the movie.

 

[Celandine]

Adam's Apples is a 2005 danish black comedy, drama about a neo-nazi (Adam) sentenced to community service at a church where he clashes with the blindly devotional priest. If this premise doesn't sell you to watch this then I don't know what will...Maybe the fact that the priest is played by Mads Mikkelsen? Anyway, is's a good movie, worth checking it out.

My name is Khan is a 2010 Bollywood drama about an Indian Muslim man with Asperger's syndrome who really wants to talk to the President of the United States. I don't want to spoil too much (there is a trailer for that) but I find the message of the movie really nice. Also it is a Bollywood movie, so if you decide to watch it, expect lots of dramatic moments with the titular Bollywood style editing.

Koma/Coma is a 2019/2020 russian action, adventure, fantasy about an architect who wakes up in a odd world after he had an accident, then he tries to escape from it. The movie is not very good but it looks fantastic (for something that wasn't made in Hollywood). Also if you have the chance, do not watch it with the english dub because it's horrible.

 

[Lonely Grave]

Delicatessen is a French black comedy about a post-apocalyptic future where a small tenet lures unsuspecting fools in to cook and eat them. The latest person to be employed is a former clown who falls in love with the butcher's daughter.

The director, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, is quite well known in France for that work and Amélie(2001), which is his real international debut.

He also made Micmacs, which I think is his best work: