French
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NOT HERE TO BE LOVED aka Je ne suis pas là pour être aimé
I so relate to the title of this movie, as it is something I would probably scream out at the top of my voice in a temper tantrum before everybody, me included, would burst out laughing. It was what first made me notice this movie in the Netflix catalogue, but the reason I then sat…
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THE FATHER OF MY CHILDREN
Gregoire Canvel has two major passions in his life: producing art-house movies and his family. Right from the opening scenes of this movie we can see that he his in trouble … the financial kind. The Production House that he owns has enormous debts and Gregoire with one hand permanently holding a cellphone to his…
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FREE MEN aka LES HOMMES LIBRES
This is the story of Younes a young illiterate Algerian Moslem immigrant living in Paris and making a quick franc from selling things ‘off the back of a lorry’ when he meets a nice guy who’s in trouble, and happens to be Jewish, so Younes changes from being a bad boy into a good boy…
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THE HOUSE OF TOLERANCE aka L'APOLLONIDE
This rather bizarre movie from renowned French director Bertrand Bonello is set in a high end Brothel in Paris at the turn of the 20th Century and is essentially a series of tableaus of near naked woman lounging around as if they are about to be painted. The house is stunning and the girls are…
