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Posted by John C. - Aussie on February 10, 2001 at 18:53:13

In Reply to: Caramba!! posted by GL on February 10, 2001 at 18:32:26:

No, the movie I was referring to was definitely Spanish - "To The limit" 1997. Now we have seen a couple or really rivetting Spanish movies but it is such a lottery that with no movie guides to assist, with limited time and with so many other good movies around we avoid attempting the Syanish variety. Mexican films shown here are few and far between but again, we have seen few we find interesting. Despite what you say, we find there are commonalities among films from countries. We find many Greek and Italian products tend to be rather male chauvenist with rather silly romantic, unbelievable plots. For sure not all are like this but too many to be bothered sitting through the first 30 mins to find out. To put it in better context the TV broadcaster I refer to transmits 14 foreign movies each week so one has to discriminate somehow.

You make some valid comments about "Carrington" but the four of us who viewed it were not offended by the sex as it was an essential part of the film. Now my hat off to Emma Thompson, a brilliant Aussie actor and full agreement about the sound track. We find a sound track can turn us off (or on) a film very quickly and is often a valuable early insight as to the nature of what will follow.

One excellent French 1992 film with a beautiful sound track is "The Accompanist" which I note that Malton only gives a mediocre rating to.

One of the funniest and most satirical films seen by us in recent years is the French Canadian "Reality Show". By contrast we find all German attempts at comedy pathetic!

John

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Topic - Ten best movies most people don't know about? - mer 16:34:52 02/05/01 (16)

Independant films - TB 01:39:36 02/07/01 (3)

Foreign Films - Estes 11:01:04 02/15/01 (0)

Re: Independant films - mer 11:31:35 02/09/01 (0)

Make that "independent"... (nt) - TB 01:43:41 02/07/01 (0)

Re: Ten best movies most people don't know about? - John C. - Aussie 18:50:07 02/05/01 (11)

Re: Ten best movies most people don't know about? - truthseeker 01:15:25 02/09/01 (1)

Re: Ten best movies most people don't know about? - GL 03:32:15 02/09/01 (0)

Careful: your bigotry is showing - GL 23:59:05 02/05/01 (8)

Just revisited this thread - bigotry???? - John C. - Aussie 02:29:45 02/10/01 (7)

Re: Just revisited this thread - bigotry???? - GL 15:26:07 02/10/01 (6)

Re: Just revisited this thread - bigotry???? - John C. - Aussie 17:23:46 02/10/01 (5)

Caramba!! - GL 18:32:26 02/10/01 (4)

Aha, now we are communicating! - John C. - Aussie 18:53:13 02/10/01 (3)

Gott in Himmel!! - GL 04:57:57 02/11/01 (2)

Re: Gott in Himmel!! - John C. - Aussie 16:07:13 02/11/01 (1)

We have been side-tracked !! - GL 03:31:19 02/12/01 (0)

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Aha, now we are communicating! - John C. - Aussie 18:53:13 02/10/01 (3)

Gott in Himmel!! - GL 04:57:57 02/11/01 (2)

Re: Gott in Himmel!! - John C. - Aussie 16:07:13 02/11/01 (1)

We have been side-tracked !! - GL 03:31:19 02/12/01 (0)

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