French Movies of Stoner Value

Discussion in 'Movies' started by Vee, May 12, 2019.


  1. Ma Loute 2016 Summer 1910.
    Several tourists have vanished while relaxing on the beautiful beaches of the Channel Coast. Infamous inspectors Machin and Malfoy soon gather that the epicenter of these mysterious disappearances must be Slack Bay, a unique site where the Slack river and the sea join only at high tide. There lives a small community of fishermen and other oyster farmers. Among them evolves a curious family, the Bréfort, renowned ferrymen of the Slack Bay, lead by the father nick-named "The Eternal", who rules as best as he can on his prankster bunch of sons, especially the impetuous Ma Loute, aged 18. Towering high above the bay stands the Van Peteghems' mansion. Every summer, this bourgeois family - all degenerate and decadent from inbreeding - stagnates in the villa, not without mingling during their leisure hours of walking, sailing or bathing, with the ordinary local people, Ma Loute and the other Bréforts. Over the course of five days, as starts a peculiar love story between Ma Loute and the young and mischievous Billie Van Peteghem, confusion and mystification will descend on both families, shaking their convictions, foundations and way of life.
    stoner value 8/10


    A sumptous period drama which has taken the French box office by storm
    In November 1918, a few days before the Armistice, Edouard Péricourt saves Albert Maillard's life. The two men have nothing in common but the war. Lieutenant Pradelle, by ordering a senseless assault, destroys their lives while binding them as companions in misfortune. On the ruins of the carnage of WWI, condemned to live, the two attempt to survive. Thus, as Pradelle is about to make a fortune with the war victims' corpses, Albert and Edouard mount a monumental scam with the bereaved families' commemoration and with a nation's hero worship
    stoner value 9/10


    hold onto your seat
    Work-life balance breaks down for Paris's most gifted armed robbers when a grave mistake forces them to work for a crime boss in a high-stakes heist. for me is action at another level, more smart than more action movies.
    stoner value 9/10
     
  2. #2 Vee, Jun 7, 2019
    Last edited: Jun 8, 2019

    Convicted felon Nikita, instead of going to jail, is given a new identity and trained,
    stylishly, as a top secret spy/assassin.

    "There are two things that have no limit: femininity and the means of taking advantage of it."
    great quote, and so true

    This was a truly masterful performance by Anne Parillaud. I have never seen a better female in an action film before, or since. Too bad she never received the appreciation and recognition she truly deserved. There is no other Nikita.
    Concept stolen by Hollywood in 1997, leached into La Femme Nikita - Wikipedia
    and again 2010 Nikita - Wikipedia ..but they can't get Anne Parillaud back ever,...............don't miss it
     

  3. After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident,
    an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver.9/10


    You never seen screen presence like this guy Omar Sy.


    Stolen by Hollywood with Bryan Cranston & Kevin Hart a very cheep copy tho competant actors: OK for TV
     

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