A new French-language film channel called CineMoi (clever name) started broadcasting this week and anything which puts a further selection of movies at my disposal is always warmly welcomed. It is due to be encrypted into a subscription channel in April, but I shall treat it as a "taster" in the interim to decide if it is worth the cost -- although I suspect even now that I will succumb. They are only showing three films a day plus the occasional short and the first week's offerings have been strong on well-known flicks like "Jules et Jim" and the Three Colours trilogy, but there is an encouraging sprinkling of movies which are completely unknown to me -- although I think I can live without watching some of the downbeat "kitchen-sink" type grimfests.
This film originally known as "Dieu seul me voit" is a collaboration between director Bruno Podalydes and his writer-actor brother Denis P, neither of whom I could have told you about last week, although I did recognise Denis from other films. He plays an insecure, somewhat unattractive and balding film sound engineer, who hasn't had much luck with the ladies, but who suddenly finds himself desired by three dishy females -- a left-wing bloodbank nurse with a string of ex-lovers, the oversexed ditzy girlfriend of his best friend, and a controversial and intellectual film director. One was rather put in mind of Woody Allen finding himself the love object of an unlikely string of leading ladies in some of his films, but despite the occasional small smile, there was little of Allen's trademark wise-cracking here. French comedies are seldom all-out ha-ha funny, but the situations in which our feckless hero found himself made the film an entertaining and undemanding watch before -- like so many French flicks -- it just stopped without any satisfying conclusion.
Never mind; if this channel continues to produce enough new taste thrills for my jaded palette, it should prove well worth the cost.
3 comments:
Wishing you a good weekend and hope all is well with you..wanted to say hi!! Hugs,TerryAnn
Quite right - wisecracks are definitely not French
and I shall resist the temptation to elaborate but
the character and situation driven humour which
is seen here is often more satisfying. Again, the
need for completion such as that in 'Trust The Man' can produce unnatural endings as there is
nothing wrong with incompletion.
mgp1449
But that's what I like - the abrupt endings. It might seem annoying, like you haven't had enough, but doesn't that always encourage you to want more? It also leaves it open for you to finish yourself - like the story goes on, and you can feel a bit of ownership.
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