Comedy > 2002 Comedy > World Cinema Feature Film

"Sex is what people do most and admit least"

Advantages: Based on the director's own experiences.
Disadvantages: In French.

...Film after Filming a Graphic sex scene in it herself. This film is in French, but has English subtitles. However you don't really need the subtitles, to understand what is going on.! The Film is all about making an Adult movie. The "director" (Parillaud), is trying to get his head actor (Colin) and his head actress (Mesquida) to give the most realistic performance of graphic sex. But in the movie they hate each other. You can imagine how hard this ...
...is a pretty boy who thinks Mesquida is an idiot. Watching them kiss is an exercise in understated apathy. Catherine (The real Director) treats the subject with real respect for her audience's sensibilities. This film has the rare truth about Sex, where confusion gets in the way of sexiness. Parillaud (The movie Director) Has to find away to make the head Actors come together. The film is hilarous. There is nothing sexy about a man being paid ...

honestwriter 30.08.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Sex Is Comedy (DVD)

How it changed my life.

Advantages: Funny and accurate
Disadvantages: A few stereotypes maybe.

Hello!! Tonight, I would like to write about another French movie. Not only is this film one of my favourites, but I think it also changed my life. Let me explain… "L'Auberge Espagnole" or "Pot Luck" was released on French screens in 2002, as I was about to start my second year at university. The film plot is quite simple. Xavier, a 25-year-old French student decides to spend a year in Barcelona as part of a European exchange scheme. At first, ...
...struggles to find a decent accommodation... until he finds THE perfect place: a messy apartment shared by 6 young people from various origins: Italian, English, Spanish, Danish, German and Belgian. The film is about Xavier's year abroad, and mostly about sharing a place, especially when everyone is from a different culture. The film is in French, with subtitles, but some of the dialogues also are in Spanish, and quite often in English. The Cast ...

Pomcamgirl 08.03.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Pot Luck (DVD)

Camp 'murder mystery'/musical comedy

Advantages: funny, great soundtrack, beautifully filmed
Disadvantages: none!

...country house at Christmas, where 8 women in different stages of life have met for a festive reunion. The evening quickly twists around into something more sinister when the only man of the household is found murdered, and one of the women must be responsible. More than half of the film is made up of highly amusing exchanges between characters, punctuated by each actress singing a song that gives the audience a better idea of their character. Each ...
...Isabelle Huppert, as the bitter spinster Augustine. She brings equal humour and poignancy to what could have been a two dimensional character. I would definitely recommend this film, but be prepared - it certainly won't be what you expect. DVD extras: although there isn't a vast quanity of extras, what is there is very good quality. There are two music videos of songs featured in the film, including Catherine Deneuve singing, there is a very good ...

blue_orchid_0 12.11.2006 · Read full review
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Review of 8 Women (DVD)

One Man And A Piano

Advantages: fantastic comedy show
Disadvantages: some dodgy camera angles

...you would like. 1 Ready For This. This is the opening song for the show and Minchin comes onto the stage in a blaze of strobe lights and opens the show with a great little rock ditty where he manages to poke fun at himself while accompanied by a recording of him beatboxing with back up singers. 2 Prejudice In our modern free spoken society There is a word that we still hold taboo A word with a terrible history Of being used to ...
...to gingers, the playground taunt of choice. A hilarious song that manages to use more ginger puns than you thought existed! 3 America America is not a song but a stand up routine which discusses how forward Americans are compared to Australians and British people and are not afraid to shout about their achievements. Somehow the dialogue manages to veer onto the big bang and what will happen to a certain office block in Times Square in Manhattan ...

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Review of Ready For This - Tim Minchin

A night you would want to remember!

Advantages: Funny, Famous cameo, Unpredictable
Disadvantages: slightly unbelievable at times.

Well I saw the Hangover in the cinema, and I plan on purchasing on DVD in the near future. I thought this film was hilarious - one of my friends more so as he decided to go to watch it in the cinema about 3 or 4 times! I personally felt the star of the show so to speak was Zach Galifianakis who played slightly odd soon to be brother in law Alan. I just thought his stupidity/twisted sense of humour was really funny, and entertained me all the way ...
...really, but at the same time quite amusing. I won't go into too much detail of what happens as I don't want to spoil any of the suprises during the film. Basically, the film is about a group of guys who go to Vegas for a bloke called Doug to have a stag night. Doug doesn't really feature in the film other than the beginning and end - as he goes missing - which is the point of the film. They wake up the morning after with a trashed hotel room, and ...

adz_mc 30.12.2009 · Read full review
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