Do French like French movies???
I was wondering...
Bon Voyage et Pas Sur la Bouche got very low grades for French users. "Pas Sur la Bouche" looks like a great film, but why don't French people like their own movies????????????
This is kinda tough. It seems the only way you could make a statement like this is if you yourself are French and have first-hand knowledge. I'm English but I'm in Paris right now mostly seeing French movies with French audiences. I come here at least three times a year and I can't say I've noticed too much apathy amongst French moviegoers. The trick is to avoid the larger movie theaters on Champs Elysee/Montparnasse, etc, where they specialise in American stuff catering to the lowest common denominator and concentrate the twenty Art Houses sprinkled liberally round Paris where you will find the real French film buff. Some of these cinemas will keep a movie for a year or more but show it only once or twice a week while others will show one film four times on Monday and six others at the rate of one a day throughout the week.
Having said that I saw Bon Voyage at the Rex in April and the French audience seemed to like it well enough (You can check my comments on this and about forty other French films from the thirties to the present if you have nothing better to do). When you say low grades do you mean the kind of viewer rating you find in Pariscope?
You opened an interesting line there, thank you.
By low grades I meant the IMDb user's rates.
Take "Bon Voyage" for example. It was France's submission for the 2004 Oscar, it has been only released in Europe and IMDb MOSTLY EUROPEAN users gave it an average of 6.5 or something like it. 6.5 is a low rate (at least for me).
I WISH. It has YET to be releases in England and I ammad about that. I deal with this in my Comments on both Bon Voyage and Les Egares, which was selected in preference to Bon Voyage for the London Film Festival. I saw it in Paris last April on its initial release and loved it. You should keep in mind that on average the imdb commenters/viewers tend to be quite young so a film set in 1940 wouldn't have too much appeal. I, a resident of London, had to go to Paris to see it and there's still no sign of a booking in London. Luckily the DVD has just been released in France.
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