I continue to hate French cinema


so overly pretentious. This one is no different.

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I have to agree that this was pretentious. It was like the writer was saying 'Look how clever I am.' Witty, yes. Dramatic? Huh! I see more drama looking out of my window.

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery.

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Nothing to do with the fact that the French culture is decidedly different to that of American, British and many other western cultures - they have their own style.
What you may think as pretentious, is to them just who they are.
In other words: it seems to me that all you're doing is showing how culturally ignorant and (if you're American, maybe proudly)bigoted you are.

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And the conceit that French culture is different from and superior to broader Western culture of which it is but a part is the pretentiousness to which Americans, British, Germans and the rest of Western culture object.

Finis.

:P

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Overly pretentious is right... that is art? Jeez I hate these ridiculous statements that the director tries to make with artsy fartsy stuff like the out of focus scenes.
Mountain Man

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God forbid that someone dare to inject art or cleverness into a movie.
You people sound like the idiots who criticized Obama for requesting arugula instead of iceberg lettuce. I'll say something crazy here: arugula tastes better.
The fact that you have no taste does not mean that people who do are elitist or pretentious. It just means that they have taste.

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well spoken - I feel there is a point here, but as a foreigner I really didn't understand exactly where

prace and love

thomas von sonnenebrg

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i'm french and i can tell you that our movies are not pretentious, you just have to look better..!
you do not seem like a fine amateur of cinema, saying that is just absurd..! you're talking about a few days in september but you chose the less french film of all french films..!!
there is a lot of french movies with a very popular tone. More generally, france has a real popular culture (humor, films, music) and loves hollywood movies, blockbusters or whatever you think is "cool" and not "pretentious". So don't talk about what you don't know and come take a look in the best city of the world... :) Paris !

Peace

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French cinema is 95% crap, proof of that is that there's just a handful of French movies exported each year, and also that most French actors and all directors fail miserably when they have to work on major projects. When it comes to Paris, people actually living there know how overrated it is. I'm French BTW.

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