Films & Series European film recommendations

Recommend movie "Fear and Trembling", about Belgian female which worked in Japanese company and met a lot of troubles.


and frivolous comedy "Wickie the Viking"

 
Now being issued in a Spanish TV channel Agora Amenábar film, but do not think it is inexcusable that any Spanish producer has made a blockbuster on the Kingdom of Tartessos and first Agora to meet the growing demands of the fem-ism in the West to feminism rather see Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón.
 
Recommend movie "Fear and Trembling", about Belgian female which worked in Japanese company and met a lot of troubles
Oh yes (y)

Very good movie and a very good book of Amélie Nothomb...

I want to recommend the movie "The life of Brian", one of the greatest comedy of all the time, and my favourite English movie...:heart:

The story of the neighbor of Jesus, borned the same day and the same hour...did he have the same destiny?
 
Recommend movie "Fear and Trembling", about Belgian female which worked in Japanese company and met a lot of troubles.

I have read the book and found it was absolutely terrible, one of the worst book ever about Japan. Many of the French-speakers I know who have also lived and worked in Japan and read the book agree with me. Amélie Nothomb is depicting a completely false and caricatural view of Japanese companies. I don't know if she did it on purpose as a kind of satirical parody, or because she held some kind of grudge about Japanese companies, but you shouldn't believe anything in that book/film. Amélie Nothomb did grow up in Japan, as the daughter of the Belgian ambassador, but her experience in Japan is mostly limited to her childhood in the secluded circle of expats and embassy staff. Her insight on working in Japan has no credentials.
 
I have read the book and found it was absolutely terrible, one of the worst book ever about Japan. Many of the French-speakers I know who have also lived and worked in Japan and read the book agree with me. Amélie Nothomb is depicting a completely false and caricatural view of Japanese companies. I don't know if she did it on purpose as a kind of satirical parody, or because she held some kind of grudge about Japanese companies, but you shouldn't believe anything in that book/film. Amélie Nothomb did grow up in Japan, as the daughter of the Belgian ambassador, but her experience in Japan is mostly limited to her childhood in the secluded circle of expats and embassy staff. Her insight on working in Japan has no credentials
It was a caricatur of her personnal experience, that's all...:indifferent:
 
It was a caricatur of her personnal experience, that's all...:indifferent:

You really think that she worked for a Japanese company and ended up cleaning the toilets ? Based on my experience, Westerners working for Japanese companies are treated with more respect than locals (often because they are high-ranking expats or specialists). The only special treatment they are given is not to be obliged to follow some Japanese customs, because the Japanese don't expect them to understand their culture.
 
You really think that she worked for a Japanese company and ended up cleaning the toilets?
Please, read her biography...worked in Japan has been a horrible experience for her...

Another European movie?

Nightwatch...a russian fantasy-thriller...

Very good film making with spectacular visual effects, but the end is a little bit disappointed...
 
Love French comedies:
Les Visiteurs
Les Couloirs du temps : les Visiteurs 2
Fantômas trilogy
Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar
Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
Almost all films with participation of Louis de Funes
The French know how to make a funny comedy
 
Les Couloirs du temps : les Visiteurs 2
Fantômas trilogy
...:shocked:...

Don't watch it, you will be blind!!!

If you want to watch good comedies:
-La cité de la peur
-Le bonheur est dans le prés
-Tatie Daniel
-Bernie
-Les beaux gosses
-C'est arrivé près de chez vous

I have watched "Good-bye Lenin" yesterday, and yes, this is a great film...:heart:
 
As for Amelie Nothomb, I will not comment on the movie, I haven't seen it and don't plan to. But I have to say she is one of the best writers of the last 20 years, her style is amazing, her prose and use of the French language have no match as far as I am concerned. Living abroad for the last 12 years, reading the new Nothomb is always a delight, I rediscover my native language through her.

Concerning European movies (or foreign movies as they are called in the UK, even though US blockbusters are also semantically foreign to them...), all the above-mentioned movies are great and deserve being seen. Here are a few of what I would recommend:

Black Book (Paul Verhoeven)
De Helaasheid der Dinge (The Misfortunates)
Torrente (spanish comedy, very rude and insightful)
Soldados de Salamina (about the Spanish civil war)
SM-Rechter (Belgian, real-life story that made the buzz in Belgium)
Dossier K (in Flemish, about the Albanian mafia in Antwerp)
Europa Europa (classic, fantastic war story)
Al Sur de Granada (a favourite of mine)

Anything from Julio Medem and Pedro Almodovar...
 
torrente is not a comedy is more a bio-pic of spain these days. :innocent:

I see you are familiar with Spanish cinema, do you realize?
 
I watch them in internet. Not in the cinemas or by television. Spanish cinema is not liked not famous here in latam.
 
Yesterday i have seen the biography of Canek: TrollHunter :startled:

A Norvegian horror-thriller film, made like a documentary...

A group of students set out to make a documentary about a supposed bear poacher, Hans. The students are following Hans through western norway. When they try to interview him he tells them to go away, but they persist. As they follow him into a forest, they see flashing lights and hear roars from something larger than a bear. Hans comes running back to his vehicle, screaming "T-R-O-L-L!"
 
Yesterday i have seen the biography of Canek: TrollHunter :startled:

A Norvegian horror-thriller film, made like a documentary...

A group of students set out to make a documentary about a supposed bear poacher, Hans. The students are following Hans through western norway. When they try to interview him he tells them to go away, but they persist. As they follow him into a forest, they see flashing lights and hear roars from something larger than a bear. Hans comes running back to his vehicle, screaming "T-R-O-L-L!"

he he *lol*
 
hahaha that was funny VonR. :lol:

But there is much more ******** among the spaniards in this forum than from me. ;)
 
I don't usually like spanish cinema. However, I recently saw "El Arrebato" (Iván Zulueta) and I liked. Very crazy and serious film but, in my opinion, quite interesting.
 
When they withdraw the subsidies to the Spanish cinema it will be a better cinema, if you do not sell earnings devote to another thing: but not!, come to make movies of the Spanish civil war subsidized, I have already lost the account of the movies on the civil war, we will see if finally this magic subsidized circle breaks and one gives the opportunity to others that are rotting and that probably will never do a movie.
 
I've just seen La Solitudine Dei Numeri Primi . I liked it until the end that I didn't really understand, maybe because I had not yet read the book
 

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