How did you get to know this film ? - La boum (1980) Discussion

i just watched it a couple months ago for french class!

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My friend took French in high school, I took Russian. When he had a French exchange student stay with him, he got the video from the French teacher. I LOVED IT!!! I want it!! I live in Missouri, someone tell me how to get it!!!!

It's not that my teasers are better than yours it's just that yours are vastly inferior to mine

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[–] as20 19 years ago

Well, it's now on DVD, but the thing is i don't know how you can get them anywhere else but thanks to amazon or try fnac.com ( french version of amazon ).
The thing is it'll be in french without subtitles or with french subtitles.
I don't know what's the alternative in the US when you want to buy a foreign film from the 80's.
Sorry.

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[–] shaggy-doo 19 years ago

I first saw this movie in my 7th grade French class, in '87 or '88. I don't remember a whole lot from it, except for the movie theater scene, and the dorky "Dreams" song.

Crom laughs at your Four Winds!

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[–] miss_kawaii_bunny 19 years ago

this movie is in my school's library. sadly, the tape is about to go.

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[–] lebowski209 19 years ago

I saw this movie in French class too, in 8th grade. Must be on every teacher's curriculum or something. I fell in love with Sophie Marceau from that day on.

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[–] Tony_R_68 19 years ago

I saw it on the TV, middle 80's !
And I just watched it again... years later and for the first time... I feel much younger right now ;) ;)

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[–] iwill1969 18 years ago

I just watched it in a full full cinema (with a lot of people standing) on 1981.
I was 12. How many dreams!!!!!

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[–] minime7215 18 years ago

I watched this in French class last year (I am 16 years old) and I had quite a lot of problems with this movie.

There were a couple of funny scenes but mainly I found the movie to be incredibly unrealistic and had no clue where it was going. Plus, the cinematography gave me bad flashbacks of "Boogeyman". I just hated the camera angles. Plus, what was with that grandma? She was totally unbelievable...I mean they really could have got better actors. The father was the only good actor that stood out and Sophie Marceau as Vic was pretty good. But lots of the acting was forced. Some of the chemistry was good but most of it was phony. I don't know, usually I love French films, especially French directors, but this movie was pretty bad in my opinion. Also, that script was horrible! Really really stupid lines. You just can't throw in all kinds of mixed things, just confused on what kind of movie it was supposed to be. It tried to have funny antics from all kinds of movies but failed. I liked a lot of the more serious parts, but whatever. It missed the line of being a good movie.

Favorite part? The cinema scene of course. The most enjoyable part of the movie for me.

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[–] rena_kurama 18 years ago

This movie is really really very creepy...That song is very nice but so creepy...............I saw it in French class freshman year. I want it!! Anyone know where to get it?
-Rena.

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[–] p_malia 18 years ago

I watched this movie every year in my High School French class as well. I love this cheesy movie! I graduated 10 years ago and still find myself humming "Dreams are my Reality" and checking on here every year or so to see if it will ever come out on DVD in the US. Glad to see I am not the only one!!

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[–] Coolie_High 18 years ago

i saw the movie couple of months ago in tv! im from austria and here they still show old great movies from the 70's and 80's!! its great! im 14 so i can only say that I LOVE THIS MOVIE !! the first movie is better than the second one but its not bad at all!!!! gosh what an amazing film!!

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[–] JuniorUDLT 18 years ago

I think I first heard about this film thanks to my big sister who was in school in France around 81 or 82. I must have watched it more than 20 times in video in the early eighties back at home in Kinshasa, Zaire. Then in 1995, I was living in Columbus, Ohio, and I bought two copies of 1 & 2 from the French video store "Video France" that used to be in Westwood, Los Angeles. I still have La Boum 1 and 2 but I haven't watched for a while. They are classics to me.

For me they are cute and very funny movies and I love Claude Brasseur. And how can you not like Poupette? She stole almost every scene she was in. I wonder if they could make an American remake of the movie....

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[–] dhanni77 18 years ago

i'm french so it's a very well-known and very popular movie in my country i mean almost everybody had watch this movie here and it's one of my favorite i was born in 1984 so i didn't saw it in the theaters i first saw it when i was like 11 or 12 years old and i still love it

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[–] MadamaButterfly91 18 years ago

I'm European, it's a well known film here. I discover it on TV some years ago. In Italy is known as "IL TEMPO DELLE MELE"

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[–] xbauhausx 17 years ago

My sixth grade french teacher made me watch it.

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[–] ryu_chan1691 17 years ago

i watched it in my tenth grade french class

You've burnt all the food, the shade...the RUM!! WHY IS THE RUM GONE?!

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[–] dreamersmad 17 years ago

i saw this movie a few years ago like 2002-2003 in my french class. i can't find it anywhere though(with english subtitles)!

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[–] sillyhat 12 years ago

I watched in in 6th-grade French class. It's funny how many of us have watched it in school, even years later!

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