Your Favourite Foreign Language Films

Also on my list, Agnes Varda's Les Glaneuses (the Gleaners).

I watched Leaving starring Kristin Scott Thomas and was very disappointed with it. I've got Volver in the video box [the one that had Priscilla in]; another film I never got round to watching.

Applied to join Gransnet yesterday specially to mention The Red Balloon. Unfortunately the confirmatory email from GNHQ went straight to spam, so I have only just been able to log in.

Glad to see TRB has already been mentioned; DGS aged four has loved it since he was three. Got it on a DVD with Crin Blanc (White Mane), another great little French film.

Most of my other favourites have already been listed, esp. Jacques Tati. Yes also to La Reine Margot. And how about silent foreign films: Metropolis, Pandora's Box, Diary of a Lost Girl?

Welcome, grumppa. I hope you will join us on some of our other threads too.

Metropolis; what a film. They had Nosferatu complete with live music at our cinema the other week but I was unable to go . Weren't the Kordas very involved with German film making prior to the war when they had to move to America? And isn't there an Alfred Hitchcock connection through his wife; I think a lot of his ideas came from early German films. I've never seen Crin Blan; is it on utube I wonder?

Have you seen Holy Motors grumppa?Very weird French film but pays homage to a lot of early French film.

annodomini, thanks for the welcome.

crimson, Crin Blanc is a black and white film about the relationship between a boy and one of the wild horses of the Camargue. Beautifully shot and a sad but uplifting ending. I haven't seen Holy Motors but I would recommend Zero de Conduite, a wonderful silent French film about anarchy in the classroom.

Just watched a little gem. Patagonia. It has Matthew Rhys in it, which is always a bonus. Reminds me of the young Richard Burton a bit. And he went to school with my friend John in Cardiff ( Matthew did AND Ioan Gryffydd - the only difference is that John is not an international heart throb film star, he is a dad of 2 baby girls in NZ). And it has Duffy in it briefly.
Anyway ... This is a lovely film in Welsh and Spanish and is 2 stories about journeys. One from Wales to Patagonia and the other from Patagonia to Wales. Great contrast in the scenery. Lovely.

Is it about mining; the Welsh miners going to South America and all that? Might dig out my Duffy cd tomorrow; she's sort of gone off the radar recently.

Nothing to do with mining at all crimson

Joyeaux Noel . Seasonal and very moving.

The Lives of Others
Tokyo Story
The Lacemaker
Jean de Florette/Manon de Source
My Girlfriend's Boyfriend (I think that's what it's called)

Mine is LA VITA E BELLA directed by Roberto Benigni, it can be translated as Life Is Beautiful, I love to watch it!!!

Oh yes- Life is Beautiful - so sad at the end. I think I watched a version dubbed into German as it was part of my German course a few years ago.

This reminds me of another holocaust film, Jacob the Liar: the original German version was better imho, than the American version, but both were pretty good.

The Germans are usually brutally honest about the holocaust in their films, which is great. It is now the 70th anniversary of the death of Sophie and her brother Hans Scholl, of the German anti-Nazi resistance group White Rose, who were guillotined because they spread anti-Nazi information. There was a film about them - I think it was called The White Rose. Again, very sad.