French Films about Americans in France Filter
June 28, 2007 3:25 PM Subscribe
I'm looking for French films featuring American characters in France. The years I'm most interested in are between 1945 and around 1970, but if there's something more contemporary I'd be glad to know about it too. I've already looked at a bunch of Jean-Luc Godard's films; now I'm looking to branch out.
I assume you already know of Last Tango in Paris?
Pass the butter.
posted by Brian James at 3:40 PM on June 28, 2007
Pass the butter.
posted by Brian James at 3:40 PM on June 28, 2007
Le Divorce (2003; contemporary setting)
Pas sur la bouche ("Not on the lips"; 2003; set in 1925).
La Nuit américaine ("Day for Night"; 1973; "La Nuit américaine" is the French term for the movie technique; British character, not American)
posted by kirkaracha at 4:02 PM on June 28, 2007
Pas sur la bouche ("Not on the lips"; 2003; set in 1925).
La Nuit américaine ("Day for Night"; 1973; "La Nuit américaine" is the French term for the movie technique; British character, not American)
posted by kirkaracha at 4:02 PM on June 28, 2007
Just a touch older than 70's but one of my all time favorite films.
Diva. An African American opera singer, loved world wide and living famous in France, becomes the object of obsession of a young French moped delivery kid. He surreptitiously tapes one of her performances (she had never been recorded before) and a couple of ?opera thugs? who want the tape for some major label chase the kid through Paris. Then the kid meets the Lone Ranger and the singer and well, it's super smooth.
The zen of bread and butter changed my life.
Fantastic sound track. French New Wave reaches its pinnacle. And a plot about music pirating to boot. SO ahead of it's time.
posted by Toekneesan at 4:46 PM on June 28, 2007
Diva. An African American opera singer, loved world wide and living famous in France, becomes the object of obsession of a young French moped delivery kid. He surreptitiously tapes one of her performances (she had never been recorded before) and a couple of ?opera thugs? who want the tape for some major label chase the kid through Paris. Then the kid meets the Lone Ranger and the singer and well, it's super smooth.
The zen of bread and butter changed my life.
Fantastic sound track. French New Wave reaches its pinnacle. And a plot about music pirating to boot. SO ahead of it's time.
posted by Toekneesan at 4:46 PM on June 28, 2007
Paris Blues (1961)
Paul Newman,Joanne Woodward,Sidney Poitier,Louis Armstrong,Diahann Carroll.
posted by kanemano at 6:36 PM on June 28, 2007
Paul Newman,Joanne Woodward,Sidney Poitier,Louis Armstrong,Diahann Carroll.
posted by kanemano at 6:36 PM on June 28, 2007
Frantic (starring the lovely Harrison Ford.)
posted by santojulieta at 9:38 PM on June 28, 2007
posted by santojulieta at 9:38 PM on June 28, 2007
Bitter Moon is a bit later than 1970 but fills the bill. I suppose it is a French film in the sense that Roman Polanski was exiling himself in France at the time he made it.
posted by pasici at 5:02 AM on June 29, 2007
posted by pasici at 5:02 AM on June 29, 2007
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posted by fire&wings at 3:38 PM on June 28, 2007