I don't understand how people can vote for Charlies Angels (or whatever) in their thousands but this beautifully told, personal film recieves next to no votes. I urge people to see as many Truffaut films as possible. This film is a fine example of how films should be made: forget explosions, graphic sex etc.
It's not his best but worthy of a viewing, and certainly better than Noises Off!
Yes, I fully agree. I liked The Last Metro very much. It was very well told, witty, funny, dramatic. Which big budget Hollywood film can claim the same?
Recently I saw Vivement Dimanche, which I also liked a lot. Too sad that Truffaut died so early. He would have continued to make terrific movies!
"I don't understand how people can vote for Charlies Angels (or whatever) in their thousands but this beautifully told, personal film recieves next to no votes"
Because nobody sees Truffaut films :(
Peer-pressure is peer-pressure no matter how old you are. If your friends at work, home, and school are all talking about the latest HoWo blockbuster, how many 'normal' folk will then take the time to discover great films and then try to convince their mainstream friends to try and watch such films.
Most 'normal' people want their films to entertain them on the same level of a sports game. They want to be excited, shocked, or - dare I say - reach orgasm. They do not want to take the time to explore the themes, worlds, and characters that are regularly created by master filmmakers.
Christ! We live in a world where people cant watch black and white films or films with subtitles! It kills me everytime I hear it.
well, this is probably the most agriable topic on imdb for me.Nothing else to add.
sharei try my hardest on a daily basis to bring friends and family into the wonderful world of master filmakers cause i beleive that if you dont take the time to talk about these movies with others than they are (to a certain extent) wasted on you... most great movies strike up great discussions
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I just finish watching The Last Metro...and I really liked it...it's such a non-Hollywood movie which is one of the reasons I liked it & the reason why I like French cinema.
Specifically from the Last Metro I like the finale's little twist, it kind of remains you of Casablanca...do u know what I mean, I'm trying not to spoil it for people who haven't seen it.
My only problem was that I don't know french and the dialogue was so quick that it was hard to read the substitles (and I am use to substitles, trust me, I use to watch Friends with substitles) & pay lose attention to the actors expression.
It's the second Truffaut film I've seen...1st one was La femme d'a cote (which people have said it's not the best of Truffaut's films, but I like it).
The Last Metro is also the first old Denueve film I've seen, I saw the 8 Femmes which I really enjoy, especially with all the references to old french films & filmakers.
8 Femmes by Ozon was brilliant, he is one of my top 3 best french directors along with Jacques Audiard (Sur Mes Levres and De Battre Mon Coeur S'Est Arreter)
if you like Young Deneuve you might want to check out Roman Polanski's Repulsion, its a terrific movie. I also watched Belle De Jour last night and as usual that woman is gorgeous, also a fine actress. Belle De Jour was probably my favorite Bunuel film and along with Repulsion my favorite Deneuve movie.
about Truffaut's work you mentioned you haven't seen much so you wouldn't know but for ppl familiar with his work you can kind of see the ending coming since so many of his films are about love triangles. you might enjoy soft skin and Jules & Jim wich are my two favs
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Another great film with the young Deneuve is The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.One of the most beautiful looking films Ive ever seen.
shareit certainly is a beautiful film, the colour and the musical score is brilliant. other deneuve films which may be orth considering are tristana, also by bunuel, donkey skin, by demy, a nice little musical fairy tale with a twist. cant beat a good deneuve film. she is a brilliant actress who engages the audience by making them work to understand her character, beautiful and talented, and never sold out to hollywood, can it get better than that?!
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Laissez Passer is a superior movie about the second World War and the effects on the arts.
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This one wasn't so great, Truffaut has done a lot better. Sorry, but I speak the truth.
share"forget explosions, graphic sex etc."
Why should I? I like them.
That's why I watch both the blockbusters and the arthouse stuff. Each can deliver what the other can't.
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Unfortunately most Americans (whom I assume are a large, if not the largest, group of people on this board, never get a chance to see a foreign film. Maybe they wouldn't want to anyway, but the opportunity for most literally never presents itself anymore and hasn't for a decade or two at least. I live in the Boston area which used to support several "art" houses that ran old movies and foreign films (and indy films), and most of them have gone out of business in the past 10-20 years or so. When I was younger, there were a number of cinema in Boston and Cambridge I could go to to see something beyond the standard American commercial fare, but that really doesn't exist anymore. Even the 2-3 remaining art houses almost never show foreign films, or old movies.
I owe my love of foreign films to the Janus series of the 70s, which was focused on international film, and which I saw when I was about 12 or so - an impressionable age. If not for that, and living in a city that then had those outlets, I might never have developed the taste for these movies. Television now is a complete wasteland with virtually nothing of value on, and almost all the cinemas are megaplexes that show the same dreary Hollywood megabombs everywhere. Americans literally are not exposed to either the classics or to new and different films. It's part of the dumbing down, no doubt.
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