#french belgian film

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Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper - Daisy Town (1971)

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JE, TU, IL, ELLE (1974) dir. Chantal Akerman For more than a month, eating only powered sugar, Julie tries to deal with a breakup: she paints her room twice, removes the furniture, writes and rewrites a letter to her lover, clarifying all she had said. Once her sugar is gone, she leaves self-imposed isolation to embark on a road trip that leads to lonely love affairs with a male truck driver and the former girlfriend who started it all. (link in title)

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Women in Film Challenge 2024: [15/52] Girls of the Sun, dir. Eva Husson (France/Belgium/Georgia/Switzerland, 2018)

They think they won’t go to Paradise if a woman kills them. Too bad.

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Le SAMOURAI (1967) - ALAIN DELON MOVIE POSTERS (Part 20/20)

We conclude this short retrospective of ALAIN DELON's filmed with his masterpiece Le samourai, his first movie out of 3 directed by Jean-Pierre Melville (see parts 11 and 16).

Above are the ALL original movie posters from Japan as well as from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and the US (click on each image for details)

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville Actors: Alain Delon, Nathalie Delon, Francois Perier

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Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse

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Léon Degrelle & Alain Delon on the set of Zorro (1975)

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Golden Eighties (1986) 

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Director: Chantal Akerman

Cinematographer: Gilberto Azevedo

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From the East, Chantal Akerman

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Agnès Varda (1928-2019)

#bornonthisday Agnès Varda (b. Arlette Varda; 30 May 1928 – 29 March 2019) was a Belgian-born French film director, screenwriter, photographer, and artist. via Wikipedia #FilmDirector #PalianShow

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Der Theodor im Fußballtor (1950)

Hans Moser (Theo Haslinger Sr.) & Josef Meinrad (Theo Haslinger Jr.)

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The smurfs and the magic flute (1976)

Wow what a misleading title. A salesman sells a flute to Peewit, the court jester but the flute magically forces anyone who hears it to dance. Eventually the flute is stolen by a bad guy who uses it to steal all the money. So Peewit and his friend Johan must take it back. They find a wizard to teleport them to the world of smurfs so they could get their help.

So yeah the smurfs don't appear until half way through the movie and their point in the movie is really contrived. Why couldn't Johan and Peewit just plug their ears that would have been so much easier. I'm not really a fan of the smurfs so I'm not too upset of their absence but this is just a pure marketing ploy.

The amount of padding in this is insane, it gets to the point where Johan and Peewit and just sitting there bored waiting for the smurfs to do something. The songs in this are pretty grating as well since the characters are meant to be bad singers. Having these sorts of jokes completely fall flat because they actually subject the audience to the bad singing.

I wouldn't watch this movie even if you're a smurf fan you'd probably hate it.

The list

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Asterix the Gaul (1967)

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LES RENDEZ-VOUS D'ANNA (1978) dir. Chantal Akerman Anna, a detached and diffident director, arrives in Germany to show her latest film; she checks into a hotel, invites a stranger to her bed, and abruptly tells him to leave. He asks her to a birthday lunch with his mother and daughter; she goes. Afterward, in Cologne, she meets an old friend, a Polish Jew and war refugee. In Brussels, she spends the night at a hotel with her mother, whom she rarely sees. On the train, a stranger tells his story. Last, it's home to Paris, where her lover Daniel picks her up and they go to a hotel. Throughout, people make personal revelations to her, and Anna listens with little affect. Although it was 30 years ago, the war seems ever present. (link in title)

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Women in Film Challenge 2023: [13/52] Jumbo, dir. Zoé Wittock (France/Belgium/Luxembourg, 2020)

They are only machines on the outside; but if you watch closely, they change their shape. And then they whisk you away. Just like us: more complicated than one might think.

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MY NAME IS NOBODY / A GENIUS TWO FRIENDS AND A DUPE (1973-1975) - SPAGHETTI & OTHER RECIPES' WESTERNS (Part 2/10)

While the Spaghetti Western genre is often associated with violence and dark heroes, its popularity spawned a sub genre, i.e. the Comedy Westerns led by Terence Hill with the Trinity series (see Part 10) and culminating with the Sergio Leone produced My Name Is Nobody in 1973 followed by its lesser sequel A Genius Two Friends And A Dupe in 1975.

Above are posters from Belgium, France, Italy, Japan, the US and ex-Yugosalvia (click on each image for details).

Director: Tonino Valerii, Damiano Damiani Actors: Terence Hill, Henry Fonda, Robert Charlebois, Patrick McGoohan, Klaus Kinski, Miou-Miou

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Currently Watching

A CAT IN PARIS [UNE VIE DE CHAT] Jean-Loup Felicioli and Alain Gagnol France-Belgium, 2010