I took several years of French in high school but wasn't all that serious about it. Thinking back now though, it would be a damned shame if I just forgot everything. I've made up my mind to learn the language enough to speak/write fluently.
Please recommend me some good French films/books
Films can be of any genre, preferably either action or drama.
For books I'm thinking something easy, not adult level but maybe famous children's books at around The Hobbit/Tom Sawyer/Harry Potter level? IIRC written French has completely different verb conjugations than spoken, so that'll probably be quite challenging.
Brice de Nice, another comedy. Its pretty funny, though I think the sketches are funnier (You can YouTube them)
Bon Cop Bad Cop, it's a french Canadian movie, so the dialects/accent might take a little getting used. Though it's also in english, so you can put the english subtitles on, so if you miss something in french, you can read the subtitles to pick it up.
Polytechnique It's a movie for the 20th anniversary of the shooting in Montreal. Shot in black in white, it's very powerful.
On December 09 2011 00:09 TigerGosu1 wrote: les miserables cyrano de bergerac
While Victor Hugo, Edmond Rostand, or even Alexandre Dumas ( the tree musqueteer, 20 year later ... ) have written amazing piece of french litterature, these migth be a bit hard for someone who is not fluent in french ( as would read the original version of The Lord Of the Ring would be for a non native english speaker. I of course recommend reading these book, but if it is a bit too old fashioned, here re some other idea :
Crime Fiction
I recommend every single book written by Fred Vargas. Great stories, nice ending most of the time, not too hard to read, go ahead.
Fantasy
ONe of my favorite french fantasy author is Mathieu Gaborit, and i'd especially recommend "Les chroniques crépusculaire", amazing fantasy book.
Science Fiction
The way to go is to read "The warrior of silence ( Les guerriers du Silence)" by Pierre Bordage.
All these book should not be too difficult to read, and hopefully will entertain you Enjoy !
On December 09 2011 00:04 Newbistic wrote: IIRC written French has completely different verb conjugations than spoken, so that'll probably be quite challenging.
Conjugations are the same, but the "ne" for negative sentences are often omitted, and there are some weird elision. "Je ne sais pas" will just sound like "Chais pas".
On December 09 2011 00:31 HwangjaeTerran wrote: Les 120 journées de Sodome
I love it, but it's not for everyone!
It's an Italian movie.
I'd recommend "Contre-enquête" and "Ne le dis à personne". There are some great comedies like "Le dîner de cons" and "Le père Noël est une ordure" but it might not be easy to understand all the puns for a non-native speaker.
EDIT: realised that was a shit post - it's an action film about a retired gangster don/boss who gets shot 22 times in a parking lot and takes revenge on the underworld
I have a few movies for you :D These 3 are one of my favourites, in any language because they are interesting and quite different and there are a few really powerful or good scenes. I won't give sypnosises because I don't like it, feels like a milder version of spoilers to me...
Nos jours heureux - comedy/drama L'auberge espagnole - comedy/drama Un prophète (nothing to do with religion here) - mafia
IIRC written French has completely different verb conjugations than spoken,
I think it's the same... it's just that the simple past tense isn't used in speech.
Les Lascars movie too. This is just an episode of their series
(Could someone write down what are they saying? I didn't get everything.)
EPT
