Hi peeps!

I'm trying to find a film I saw many years ago and I believe it was on channel 4 when they had their 'Red Triangle' films back in the 80's.

It was a black&white film in french with english subtitles.

The storyline started with a guy making a glider and then setting out across what looked like a post apocalyptic landscape to find other survivors.

I remember at one point it started raining fish and he was putting them into jars to store them as food was in short supply.

There was another guy in a white coat looking a bit like a doctor/scientist and he was in a room which had an automatic door made from bars...looked a bit like a prison cell door but wider.

I remember there was a single female in the film and they had her locked away but she ended up getting killed by another guy who was not quite right in the head ^^

I would love to find this film again but can't remember the name so I have spent a fruitless hour looking on french websites -.-

It sounds like Luc Besson's La Dernier Combat.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085426/

It certainly does, many thanks!

Here is a list of good French films you won't see or if you do, it will be in 2 or 3 years time.
Palais Royal.
Je vous Trouve très Beau
Bandidas
Joyeux Noel
La Marche de l'Empereur

In my home town, Nice, all the British films are on show, most dubbed, some subtitles. The cinemathèque was showing ALL Michael Powell's films 2 weeks ago. Chicken Little was on show in some villages in the Alps.
Pity the other way round does not work.

Laetitia, have you seen Caché yet?

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Originally posted by genesis porridge:
Laetitia, have you seen Caché yet?

I wish I had. When I went to Nice I saw 3 films a day but could not make it for Caché!! My mother started to complain that I come to France to spend my time in cinemas instead of staying with her!! I saw De Battre mon Coeur s'est Arrêté. Weird but interesting and original way of filming feelings.

Caché has opened in the UK but hasn't reached my area yet. I'm looking forward to seeing it. Haneke is patchy, I liked Code Unknown and Funny Games but disliked the Piano Teacher.

I liked Piano Teacher and Funny Games but not Code Unknown.
Am looking forward to Cache though.

Sorry for diggin' up an old thread (well, not really )

I would like to say thanks again, ordered the film and have watched it a couple of times.

It is everything I remember and more, and has got me hooked on finding out more of Luc Besson's films.

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Originally posted by genesis porridge:
Caché has opened in the UK but hasn't reached my area yet. I'm looking forward to seeing it. Haneke is patchy, I liked Code Unknown and Funny Games but disliked the Piano Teacher.

Ca y est! I saw Caché! Well, yes, I liked it but I was livid again about the ending. Typically French! I can tell the ending because there isn't one. I thought the film broke down!!!Like me the audience was kind of waiting for the projectionist to resume! But no/ Mais non. It was the ending! When I think about it again I suppose it could make sense, meaning "no the story, their story is not finished". Genesis porridge, if you saw the film, please tell us what you think.

I haven't been able to see the film yet Laetitia. Does the film end on a still shot like the beginning? Code Unknown has an open ending but I must confess I prefer this type of ending to closure because as you say the story is never finished. There's an excellent article in last month's Sight and Sound about the film. You can read it on the link.


Caché

Rois et reine is a great french film, i bought it after seeing the main male actor in Munich and i thought he was a great actor, the film is excellent.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by genesis porridge:
I haven't been able to see the film yet Laetitia. Does the film end on a still shot like the beginning?................

YES!!!How did you guess? I got annoyed because it is one of those films which I keep re-making the ending in my head!!!

[QUOTE]Originally posted by genesis porridge:
I haven't been able to see the film yet Laetitia. Does the film end on a still shot like the beginning? .............

YES!!!How did you guess?What annoys me is that it is one of those films where I keep re-making the ending in my head!

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Originally posted by Haunted-House:
Rois et reine is a great french film, i bought it after seeing the main male actor in Munich and i thought he was a great actor, the film is excellent.

First I apologise for sending my post twice, I did not mean to.Computers can't stand me.
Why all my English friends like Roi et Reine and me, being French I don't???? I think I am saturated of that style of films I see whenever I go to France. It must new and original for the English. It's like Amelie, I'm the only one not to like it. I don't dislike it, but I don't think it deserves the success it had. There are many French films which are really good and never cross the water curtain.

I must have read about the ending in the Sight and Sound magazine. Still haven't seen it yet but the ending doesn't put me off. Haneke usually has offbeat endings. It couldn't be as bad as the ending of Funny Games.

I bought a French film dvd a couple of days ago. A prison drama called Le Trou which I saw many years ago and liked a great deal. Probably watch it at the weekend.

Hi,

I am looking for a film a read a review about last year. It was either French or Belgium, and was called a 'sleeper hit' of 2004/5.

I saw a trailer for it and ther is an elderly couple in an old house, the wife says to her husband who is sitting at the table:
"Why do you always behave like a charcter from an old film".

It looked really interesting. Another one I saw as shown on BBC2, last year or the year before when they had a season of programming showing art-house, world cinema films.
It was about WWII and had a big scene where a soldier is battling a Panzer German tank, set in Belgium I think.

It was great, a tale of two soldiers from different countries, joining to tackle the German advance.

If you remember either of these, please can you help with the name of the films

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Originally posted by genesis porridge:

.....I bought a French film dvd a couple of days ago. A prison drama called Le Trou which I saw many years ago and liked a great deal. Probably watch it at the weekend.

I remember watching Le Trou when I was a teenager and I loved it. There is a new French film (2 years old)called,..zut I forgot, Le Jardin....? It is the powerfull story of 5 French men put in a hole by the German and a German soldier (who used to be a clown) is going to entertain them to keep their moral up. Maybe someone remember the title but I doubt, it is a French film and I don't think it came overhere.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by mattgen79[_]:

Mattgen79, don't you remember an actor's name? Was it an old classic?

I'm surprised Le Trou isn't as highly regarded as it should be. It's a classic prison drama. The use of the toothbrush with the mirror glued on one side to watch the prison guards is ingenius. I really enjoyed watching it again and I'm glad I bought it. Still haven't seen Caché yet. I'll probably wait for the DVD which is out in May.

I don't recognise any of the films from the descriptions. The line "why do you always beheve like a character from an old film" sounds familiar but I'm really not sure. It might be The Consequences Of Love in which an elderly couple feature. However it's not a French film, it's Italian set in Switzerland and was released last year.

The Consequences Of Love

Thanks for the info.

Both the films were in colour and probably fairly recent. The one with the soldiers fighting a German panzer tank was shown quite late at night, I don't remember the actor's name, the film had comedic elements to it.