Sentences with phrase «french farce»

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: French Farce from Legendary Director Released on DVD Over the years, Patrice Leconte has proven himself quite adept at plumbing the depths of the human psyche by placing two people with nothing in common in an emotionally - explosive predicament.

So, unfolds My Best Friend, a sinuously intriguing French farce set in and around a Paris often presented from the perspective of a perambulating taxi.

The Names of Love (Unrated) French farce about a free - spirited, young political activist (Sara Forestier) who succeeds in converting right - wing conservatives to her liberal cause by sleeping with them until she meets her match in a stubborn, middle - aged Fascist (Jacques Gamblin).

Special Correspondents (Unrated) Ricky Gervais wrote, directed and co-stars in this remake of Envoyes Tres Speciaux, the French farce about a radio journalist (Eric Bana) and assistant (Gervais) who decide to fake their own disappearance and flee to New York during an uprising in a South American Banana Republic.

BON VOYAGE (Grade: A --RRB-: French writer - director Jean - Paul Rappeneau and star Gerard Depardieu — the team that gave us the triumphant 1990 version of «Cyrano de Bergerac» — reunite for this entertaining French farce / historical epic about an ensemble of characters fleeing the German invasion of 1940 for the temporary safety of Bordeaux.

native Steve Carell's new movie with Paul Rudd due out this summer — a remake of a dark French farce called LE DINER DE CONS (THE DINNER GAME) which I loved.

Populaire (R for sexuality) French farce, set in 1958, about an applicant (Deborah Francois) for a secretarial position at an insurance company who is informed by her prospective employer (Romain Duris) that she'll have to win a speed typing competition in order to land the job.

This is staged as a French farce, so it somehow manages to be hilarious in spite of or perhaps because of how terrible this love triangle is.

This riotous French farce stirs in both Russian mob action and some strong emotion in a way that kind of defies both description and expectation.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Remake of French Farce Arrives on DVD Courtesy of Chris Rock On the surface, it sure looks like Richard Cooper (Chris Rock) is living the American Dream.

Much of its domestic comedy - meets - espionage thriller set - up was actually cribbed from the 1991 French farce La Totale!

Synopsis: In this remake of the classic French farce «La Cage aux Folles,» engaged couple Val Goldman (Dan Futterman) and Barbara Keeley (Calista Flockhart)... [MORE]

Some of the set pieces are truly hilarious, particularly a mini French farce involving a suddenly aborted bachelor party, and a dance duel set in a gay bar.

Frisky President Francois Hollande is at the heart of a French farce.

The cast assembled for this campaign belongs in a Greek tragedy crossed with a French farce.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Carell and Company Serve Up Unappetizing Remake Although Hollywood has a horrible track record when it comes to remakes of foreign films, especially French farces, I nonetheless approached Dinner for Schmucks optimistically and with an open mind.

Not exact matches

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Shambogunner, I am not favouring Henry or the french, its just irritating that the media blames Arsenal for Henry's farce.

Saturday Pep sat out 5 or 6 first teamers in preparation for the Gunner game and still won easy that's how big of an advantage they have, all Munich have to play for each year is the CL, the German is a farce just like the Spanish and French leagues

In his Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon (published 1852), he was contrasting the farce of Louis Napoleon's French dictatorship (as Napoleon III, 1851) to Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte's real power and glory (as Napoleon I, 1799); after the tragic mimicry of Napoleon Francois Charles Joseph Bonaparte, as Napoleon II, Emperor - without - Empire of France, after his father, Bonaparte's abdication in 1814; and from birth, titular Prince Imperial and King of Rome).

French professor Bernard Debré recently released a controversial book claiming that cholesterol medications are a farce and that high cholesterol as a disease is a deception invented by the pharmaceutical industry.

When it comes to farce, nobody does it better than the French.

2 Days in New York is Julie Delpy's second foray into French family farce, tinged with absurdity, but grounded in the real comedy at which she's so adept.

There's little in the way of plot or dialogue to this French - made farce abo...

Its score is a schizophrenic grab at Quentin Tarantino / Wes Anderson hipster DJ credibility (without the record collection or the budget to be anything but irritating), and its existence is owed the overlapping fallacies that the French aren't the only ones capable of bedroom farce and that French bedroom farces are that lofty a goal to aspire to in the first place.

Perhaps most of the humor is lost in translation or perhaps the French just seem to handle broadly physical farces that much better; whatever the reason, there's just little for two of the world's most gifted comedians to do but try to ad - lib enough moments of hilarity to squeeze out whatever chuckle they can for 98 minutes.

All the elements for a breezy (or bloody) French window farce are in place, but once the tired quips start flying and the hitherto - unspoken truths start piling up, it's clear that the script has nothing to say and a very awkward way of saying it.

Pauline at the Beach (Kino Lorber Studio Classics, Blu - ray, DVD)-- After completing his «Six Moral Tales» (plus a pair of terrific literary period pieces), French filmmaker Eric Rohmer embarked on «Comedies and Proverbs,» a series of female - driven romantic comedies with headstrong characters, mis - matched couples, and the criss - crossing plots of a Shakespearean farce.

But in an interview on Criterion's new Blu - ray of Renoir's full - length 1931 film La Chienne (which also contains «On Purge Bébé» as a bonus feature), scholar Christopher Faulkner says the French master quickly realized the possibilities of sound, even while cranking out a thudding farce.

The latest from the French comic master Francis Veber («The Dinner Game») is an enjoyable farce, with lots of laughs and a strong cast.

It takes a certain kind of director to turn this adaptation of a French graphic novel into a comedy of (t) errors; it takes a satirist of In the Loop director / Veep creator Armando Iannucci's talents to transform this into the sort of farce that makes you lose bladder control.

French filmmaker Bruno Dumont mixes grotesque class comedy with far - out human behaviour in this bizarre coastal farce

The author and climate change campaigner, Naomi Klein, accused French authorities of «a gross abuse of power that risks turning the summit into a farce».