Quote (Svartermetalisk @ Jan 21 2016 10:22pm)

Jean Gabine and Simone Simon I really like, I might check out that French film ^^

Quote (BebebBurns @ Jan 22 2016 03:36pm)

Best film i've seen in over a year, keep thinking about it. ^ Gotta love dardenne, all of their films are worth watching

Been watching lots of shorts from 1890s and 1900s but not much worth mentioning

Quote (Svartermetalisk @ Jan 22 2016 08:22pm)

Rosetta you mean? yeah it was fantastic. It does everything right, the lack of dialogue, the camerawork, the lack of music, the ambiguity.
One of it's strongest features is the fact that the main character isn't charismatic or likeable which makes it seem more genuine.

I've only seen one other Dardennes (Two days, one night) but Rosetta was much much better. Looking forward to watching more films by them!

Quote (BebebBurns @ Jan 23 2016 04:54pm)

Yea and yea. Have you seen / do you like mouchette btw? Pretty great and vaguely related
In dardenne top-3 with Le Fils and La Promesse, Two days is my least liked

Quote (Svartermetalisk @ Jan 23 2016 06:37pm)

I haven't
When I first started getting into the French New Wawe I watched like one film by most of the famous directors and the Bresson film I watched Pickpocket was 2deep4me at the time so I watched the relevant Godard, Truffaut, Malle, Chabrol etc films instead. Pickpocket is still the only Bresson I've seen.
However, since I'm running out of films to watch by the directors I like the most I've been thinking about rewatching Pickpocket and then watch some other stuff from Bresson so there's a decent chance I'll be watching Mouchette pretty soon :)