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"The title of the film refers to “the gods”—in French, le paradis—that upper gallery in a theater where the seats are cheap and the audience boisterous. Throughout the film, we are the audience watching parallel stories in which the world of the stage, presented largely in mime, mirrors the “real-life” setting, itself of course a fiction shown on the screen. Through the obvious theatricality of the stage and the far subtler theatricality of the “real” story, we follow a tale of love, loss, and revenge straight from late nineteenth-century French literature but reinvigorated by the magic of film."

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D. A. Pennebaker recommended Children of Paradise (1945) in Movies (curated)

Children of Paradise (1945)

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"This was the first French—maybe the first foreign—film I ever saw, and, as it turned out, one of the most romantic. The notion of undying love labeled me forever, and I loved it."

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Dean (6921 KP) rated Ravenous (2017) in Movies

Nov 30, 2019

Ravenous (2017)

2017 | Horror, Sci-Fi

5.7

(3 Ratings)

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Ok Zombie film

I checked this out on Netflix as I quite like zombie films. It is a French speaking film although there isn't a great deal of dialogue. I got the impression it was going to be quite a funny film, but it's definitely not a comedy horror. It's ok for a low budget but nothing out of the ordinary really happens. Fairly straight forward overall.

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Micmacs (Micmacs à tire-larigot) (2010)

8.7 (3 Ratings) Rate It

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Whimsical revenge film, featuring an odd bunch of characters.

Jean Pierre Jeunet French film quirky artistic revenge

The House on Skull Mountain (1974)

6.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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Barry Levinson recommended Breathless (2012) in Movies (curated)

Breathless (2012)

2012 | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

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"When I first saw it, I had never seen anything like it. I knew nothing about filmmaking. But I knew that the guy with that French name had made a film that was changing the rules."

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