This is as good of a suspense thriller as you'll ever see:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362225/
Another good French movie:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0344510/
Tell No One was a decent, though overrated, film but the subplot involving a man from the banlieues helping the doctor (Francois Cluzet) out was completely unbelievable. The film is based on an American novel. I'm guessing in the novel that it's a noble black thug from the projects helping the doctor.:icon_rolleyes:
I mostly like older French films. Even in the last decade some of my favourite movies were made by Eric Rohmer (a right winger) and Claude Chabrol (self-proclaimed communist but old friend of Jean-Marie Le Pen). Both of them died in 2010.
Admittedly I can't think of too many good recent (ie last couple of years)) French films:
- Crime d'amour/Love Crimes by Alain Corneau (another veteran who died in 2010). A great movie about the soulless rootless corporate world which would go well with an even better French film on that subject Demonlover (Olivier Assayas)
- Un balcon sur la mer from 2010 by pied noir Nicole Garcia. Not great, and there's some Algeria-related political correctness, but it also portrays pied noirs as actual human beings rather than racist caricatures.
- Une vie de chat/A Cat in Paris:cheesy:
- I hear that L'affaire Farewell (same director as Tell No One) is really good but I haven't seen it yet.
If you go back a few more years I could name lots - Triple Agent, The Lady and the Duke (Rohmer), He Loves Me...He loves me Not (Laetitia Colombani), The Girl From Paris (Christian Carion), and many more.
I don't like French comedies. Then again, those of us raised in the UK and Ireland tend to think all other countries are humour deprived compared to us! We believe our humour is more subtle and intelligent than anyone else's so when we watch foreign comedies, including most American (ie Jewish) stuff we tend to laugh AT them for being so lame rather than WITH them for being funny. I saw Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis (one of the most popular in French history) a couple of months ago just before travelling to France and southern Belgium, so I was in the mood for it, but, although it had some funny moments, I thought it was too "slapstick" to really enjoy.
