English language movies featuring France or French
December 2, 2013 12:30 PM Subscribe
Looking for movie recommendations that feature French scenes, spoken French is good too.
I watch a lot of English and American movies with my French friends (who understand English even if they don't speak it that well), and have hit on the perfect 'genre' after watching Julie & Julia and Midnight in Paris. Can you recommend any more that fit the bill? Bonus points for Paris as that's where I'm living.
I watch a lot of English and American movies with my French friends (who understand English even if they don't speak it that well), and have hit on the perfect 'genre' after watching Julie & Julia and Midnight in Paris. Can you recommend any more that fit the bill? Bonus points for Paris as that's where I'm living.
A Little Romance, the last film of Sir Laurence Olivier and the first of Diane Lane.
posted by Melismata at 12:34 PM on December 2, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by Melismata at 12:34 PM on December 2, 2013 [1 favorite]
National Lampoon's European Vacation
Ronin
Inglourious Basterds
posted by Tanizaki at 12:37 PM on December 2, 2013
Ronin
Inglourious Basterds
posted by Tanizaki at 12:37 PM on December 2, 2013
Funny Face
posted by griphus at 12:38 PM on December 2, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by griphus at 12:38 PM on December 2, 2013 [1 favorite]
Gotcha!,featuring a young and excellent Anthony Edwards is surprising watchable.
Unfortunately,or fortunately as the case may be-it is not my genre of choice, the (short) scene I remember best involves his schooling on the correct pronunciation of "Pernod" in a cafe in Paris.
posted by SLC Mom at 12:41 PM on December 2, 2013 [1 favorite]
Unfortunately,or fortunately as the case may be-it is not my genre of choice, the (short) scene I remember best involves his schooling on the correct pronunciation of "Pernod" in a cafe in Paris.
posted by SLC Mom at 12:41 PM on December 2, 2013 [1 favorite]
This is a French movie featuring English (and Spanish) scenes, but L'Auberge Espagnole?
posted by sunset in snow country at 12:48 PM on December 2, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by sunset in snow country at 12:48 PM on December 2, 2013 [1 favorite]
Bertolucci's The Dreamers -- here's a trailer. Set in Paris, the characters sometimes speak French to eachother.
posted by Pwoink at 12:54 PM on December 2, 2013
posted by Pwoink at 12:54 PM on December 2, 2013
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Francois Truffaut!)
posted by peep at 1:23 PM on December 2, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by peep at 1:23 PM on December 2, 2013 [1 favorite]
I was about to add a couple, but I think Ruthless Bunny's nailed it there.
posted by ZJQJ at 1:42 PM on December 2, 2013
posted by ZJQJ at 1:42 PM on December 2, 2013
Frances Ha
posted by rabbitsnake at 2:01 PM on December 2, 2013
posted by rabbitsnake at 2:01 PM on December 2, 2013
Used for comedic effect in The History Boys (though who knows if this is intelligible to actual French speakers . . .)
posted by ostro at 2:12 PM on December 2, 2013
posted by ostro at 2:12 PM on December 2, 2013
Sarah's Key.
posted by chainsofreedom at 2:25 PM on December 2, 2013
posted by chainsofreedom at 2:25 PM on December 2, 2013
I'm afraid to mention Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!)
But it was on ABC Family last week, and it's not bad. "Le chateau!"
posted by Huffy Puffy at 4:39 PM on December 2, 2013
But it was on ABC Family last week, and it's not bad. "Le chateau!"
posted by Huffy Puffy at 4:39 PM on December 2, 2013
This is kinda farcical, but Christopher Plummer and Martin Mull do some hilarious riffing in awkward schoolboy French in one scene in The Boss's Wife.
posted by ovvl at 4:56 PM on December 2, 2013
posted by ovvl at 4:56 PM on December 2, 2013
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