I worked late. Irfan picked
I worked late. Irfan picked me up at the office and we met Gil and Audra for the premiere of Ma femme est une Actrice (My Wife is an Actress). I loved this movie. It was great entertainment... very funny. I think some of the French drama between the main couple in the film was especially appreciated by me because Flavie was French (born and raised in Paris). After the movie, we went down tot he village to see some of their friends I had never met before. Since I'm into meeting people and making new friends, I was down for it despite my exhaustion. We were supposed to meet them at Two Rows (I hate that place). They weren't there yet. I went to eat at that little Italian Deli/Cafe next to Baker's St. and the parking garage... I forget the name. Anyhoo, excellent groceries. Afterwards, I went back for a brief introduction before heading home. They were all going to Timberwolf. I wasn't drinking tonight (other than a glass of wine with dinner), so I decided to come home. Ma femme est une Actrice rates up there in my book with Gazon Maudit, Le Dîner de Cons, Les Visiteurs, and Le Placard for some of my all time favorite French films. It's one I will see again.
you have seen le Dîner de cons?
wow. just. wow.
Any guns in those?
I’m not very big on French cinema, really, but I dig anything by Luc Besson, except for that Joan of Arc film he should have made in France with French actors. “City of Lost Children” was great, as was “Amelie”, which makes me want to finally see “Delicatessen”.
I thought it was strangely ironic that on the DVD extras for “Amelie” the director talks about how he’s always been, before “Amelie”, hated by the French film critics and about how it’s deadly for a French film to open at Cannes. Yet they complain about American entertainment’s unstoppable world domination. Go figure.
...by contrast, Luc Besson is treated like a rock star and a national treasure over there...outside the US, at least back when I was working on “the Fifth Element”, he was the second most popular director, worldwide, behind Steven Spielberg.
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