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Re: War Movies Featuring the French Army
« Reply #15 on: February 07, 2014, 04:09:01 PM »
I rather meant their homepage, not what they are shouting

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Re: War Movies Featuring the French Army
« Reply #16 on: February 07, 2014, 06:49:54 PM »
My French ain't bad (I use it every day after all), but between elderly mumbles, mediocre sound, and scenes where modern reenactors are using French WWII jargon covered by the sounds of guns firing, I could barely understand the thing. When the younger guys were doing documentary interview bits, I could understand them just fine! 

I think my French must be fairly decent then - I can get it without sous-titres!  lol



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Offline dm

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Re: War Movies Featuring the French Army
« Reply #17 on: February 07, 2014, 07:21:30 PM »
There are some French troops in the Dunkirk part of the movie Atonement...the Dunkirk section of the movie is worth watching but found the rest of the movie very yawn inducing

I enjoyed Days of Glory and for a low budget war movie found it packed a punch

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Re: War Movies Featuring the French Army
« Reply #18 on: February 07, 2014, 07:43:31 PM »
There's Indigènes (English title "Days of Glory", which really is so generic and awful, and doesn't describe the film at all).

iii) (completely personal opinion here, but) it is pretty terrible.

I would agree. The director had no understanding of filming action scenes.

However I don't think the director was making a war movie, he was making a social comment movie that happened to be set during a war. If viewed like that, its pretty good.

Offline macgarns

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Re: War Movies Featuring the French Army
« Reply #19 on: February 07, 2014, 08:45:00 PM »
Hi,
There is a movie and it's two sequel : Mais où est passée la septième compagnie ? ( But where has gone the 7th company ?)  It is a comical movie set in the debacle , but you have french uniforms, french humour ( not only the germans are laughed at, but the french take it's toll as well ! )

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mais_o%C3%B9_est_donc_pass%C3%A9e_la_septi%C3%A8me_compagnie_%3F

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Septi%C3%A8me_Compagnie_au_clair_de_lune

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_a_retrouv%C3%A9_la_septi%C3%A8me_compagnie

Hope it help
Fred
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Offline macgarns

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Re: War Movies Featuring the French Army
« Reply #20 on: February 07, 2014, 08:57:53 PM »
Hi again,
A little selection :
French SAS liberating Britanny, from a book by J.Kessel :
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Bataillon_du_ciel
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un_jour_avant_l%27aube

War in the desert
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un_taxi_pour_Tobrouk
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Morfalous

This one is about resistance, but from the railway workers to block german reinforcing Normandy front  ( I loved this one when I was a kid for some battle scenes, and a nice train derailment )
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Bataille_du_rail

Cheers
Fred

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Re: War Movies Featuring the French Army
« Reply #21 on: February 07, 2014, 09:29:29 PM »
Hi macgarns - Your 2nd post is extremely interesting. THX very much!
french humour is not bad either, but I've seen a lot of comedies making fun of the defeat

Offline Gothic Line

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Re: War Movies Featuring the French Army
« Reply #22 on: February 09, 2014, 01:05:44 AM »
 I saw one with a fat inn keeper lady,German Mountain troops (the commander traveled in a side car...) French Resistance...
 Trying to remember the name...maybe " La Banquise"...?
 Gui
« Last Edit: February 09, 2014, 10:03:13 AM by Gothic Line »

 

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