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In Reply to: Hey Patrick - GET that $10: L'Homme Du Train is wort it... posted by Victor Khomenko on June 15, 2003 at 17:42:39:
Done !
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Nathalie Baye' husband?
Dear Victor I must laugh ! Johnny was one of the first french national rock hero...( I never like him , but he had quite some fwe good songs ) he is now 60, and still rocking...he had been married a lot of times ( Nathalie ) was one of them...several children ( with Mrs. Baye one girl who is a movie star in France ) and now married with an young teen of 26 ?....
He is a real character force, and want to be for ever young...
I do not think that he is very intelligent.
BUT, he made more than his way.....
To take a sex-crazy rocker and make such good use of him that he doesn't fall on his face in presence of a titan like Rochefort.I know he made several films but I never seen any of them. Any good ones?
I know you are not crazy about Patrice Leconte, but she handled him rather well in that film.
J.halliday, was in a lot of films...but was certainly badly cast ( He had a role with J. brel too)
What nerve me ( exasperé ) with P. Leconte ( she ? no, a he! )is his incapability to make an good film...sometimes very close ( Le mari de la coiffeuse ) or ridiculy far ( la veuve de st. Pierre, or Ridicule )
I wish he could crawl out and make an good film...well maybe L´Homme....is the one I did not think he will ever make.
I tell you this week what I think.
It's got to be that peeing scene! Taken straight from the "Size Matters" manual...I loved that movie. I would never say it was a great film, but one that most certainly must be seen by anone interested in fine filmmaking.
Darn those French names! And all this time I have been feeling perfectly contended: woman's film (The Widdow...) - woman's sounding name... now my peaceful existence has been shattered!
I hope you you won´t turn Homosexual *....because of dear....Patricia....
When I first saw it I was very happy with...critical about the injustice of the Louis XIV monarchy, full of spirit, subtile...
The second time it just felt apart, all the things that was being critisised ( superficiallity.... ) was suddendly there, strangely the film" raison d´être " turn against itself and became an " baudruche " filled with hot hair.
If you cry out that loud I will take another look...but....
I'd rather have you see something new.I saw the Ridicule two times, first one at the theater, and liked it, the second one just days ago on TV, and it still didn't irritate me.
Maybe you are too critical of the French cinema? I know full well I see the Russian movies differently than a Westerner does.
Speaking of which... have you seen Lidja 4-Ever? You might want to check it out on imdb - Swedish director with strange sounding name, dark side of the dreary Soviet existence - as if there was something other!
It's coming here, so we might go see it.
This alone gives one the ambition to look at the film, it has " nostalgie " erotic and something more in the face of this woman.....
But no dvd till now .
I will wait.
I always try to maitain an healthy distance between me & me...That is why I always try to be self critical...with this system I try to reach a certain kind of obectivity...As we says in French it is a " Garde fou " .....
No ever heard of Lidja 4-Ever...but the title sounds good, I will check it.
Yesterday I start to look at ( YES started as someone came to vvisit me and I had to stop..) FRIDA.
It is a good film ! Not going very profoundly, BUT, very enjoyable, so far.
And very well played....
That would be an real non Hollywood film. ( At the antipod of Fat wedding.. ecetera...)
one of the film critics (Denby or Lane)for The New Yorker liked this film very much (and L'Homme du Tren," as well). BTW, Hallyday was quite good playing a soldier in a movie I saw years ago...set in Vietnam (a listing of his films would disclose the title, of course). I think it had "iron" in the title, perhaps "The Iron Triangle?"
The problem is, for us French Pseudo intellectuel snobs that J. Halliday, is relatively vulgaire and was in his language...not very well outspoken...They use to make jokes on him...AND he was in the sixties against the hippies....even he did make money with every flavor of the moment...When B. Dylan was in Paris he lived in his house...that was chocking back then....
He made quite a few good songs.
I never could connect to him.But he deserve all the respect for his very long artistic life and his " fureur de vivre ".
One of the SACD / DVD-A inmate Eric from Paris make me a present of his new (SA)CD...and it is not bad at all...
***AND he was in the sixties against the hippiesThat does it, Patrick! The man had vision and brain - that proves it.
That alone puts him in the top category in my book - next to Gregory Peck and Marcello!
I HAD THIS CERTAIN FEELING...that you would say that !
I certainly wasn´t an hippy but on the " Promenade des Anglais " in Nice we took our guitars and played on, let our grow longer...and never leaved our home town...Fils de bourgeoies....
We had fun and love was in as they said in the air..The girls an easy out take...Like an pizza to go... It was the indestructible force of the youth.
Where were you ? In some dark goulag ?
Without red wine ?
Tell us the truth !
Hallyday was a " Rocker "
That do NOT make him more sympatico.
Well, the late sixties and early seventies were extremely opressive in the USSR... it was no joke, but perhaps in this area it had positive effect - less societal trash surfaced.Some of us did grow long hair - I did - but it took real courage, not like in the West. We played our guitars too, but there were severe limitations on where and what.
Getting girls to have sex was super-hard, as the communist morals were as strong as ever. Great majority of them entered their marriages virgins... I am ashamed to admit.
People would still be arrested back then for writing wrong poetry - typically sent to the mental institutions.
Not really fun times.
Super-hard was a condition sine quanum here too, to have sex.( ah, the French ! )
The funny side was that my father loved the party and Russia, he study politics in Moscow before the last war...and remind fidel till his death.
We were lucky.They stole us things too...( Charles was VERY catholic, and censure was in the air) but that, of course doesn´t compare to your fate.
And explain your allergies to everything that come near your sentiment of freedom.
I feel the same.
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