Calling French speakers
Sep. 18th, 2015 11:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
raincitygirlIs the movie Polytechnique depressing? I need to watch more Quebecois movies. I really liked C.R.A.Z.Y., but that was a comedy (directed, incidentally, by a Quebecois director who later moved to Hollywood and made Dallas Buyers Club and The Young Victoria). Who says Canadians can't succeed in Hollywood?
And I got a rec from a francophone guy at work that the movie Octobre is apparently amazing. It's about the October Crisis of 1970, when Prime Minister Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act after acts of separatist terrorism. So, based on a true story, just like Polytechnique, but not such a hot button issue for me.
Maybe because I'm not a cabinet minister or a senior diplomat, but I am a woman. Octobre's victims were targeted because they were politically important. Polytechnique's victims were ordinary people targeted for studying engineering while female. So, has anyone seen Polytechnique, and is it likely to make me sob like a baby and sink into a grey depression?
On a totally different note, I don't usually have much time for the National Post. As Canadian newspapers go, it's pretty pathetic most of the time. But even a stopped clock is right twice a day, and Scott Stinson nails it covering recent developments in the Patrick Kane "situation", and the messages the Chicago Blackhawks as a corporate entity are sending to their female fans. Off to google Scott Stinson's name and see if that was a flash in the pan or if he's written other good articles on other subjects.
And I got a rec from a francophone guy at work that the movie Octobre is apparently amazing. It's about the October Crisis of 1970, when Prime Minister Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act after acts of separatist terrorism. So, based on a true story, just like Polytechnique, but not such a hot button issue for me.
Maybe because I'm not a cabinet minister or a senior diplomat, but I am a woman. Octobre's victims were targeted because they were politically important. Polytechnique's victims were ordinary people targeted for studying engineering while female. So, has anyone seen Polytechnique, and is it likely to make me sob like a baby and sink into a grey depression?
On a totally different note, I don't usually have much time for the National Post. As Canadian newspapers go, it's pretty pathetic most of the time. But even a stopped clock is right twice a day, and Scott Stinson nails it covering recent developments in the Patrick Kane "situation", and the messages the Chicago Blackhawks as a corporate entity are sending to their female fans. Off to google Scott Stinson's name and see if that was a flash in the pan or if he's written other good articles on other subjects.
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Date: 2015-09-20 01:43 pm (UTC)Hm. Have you seen the original La Grande Séduction? That's a comedy that was recently remade in English, about a small town trying to lure in a doctor to live there because a big company requires a resident doctor before creating jobs there?
Or there's Nez Rouge, about a romantic comedy centered on the people who volunteer to drive drunk people home during the holidays.
Neither are very recent. I'll try to think of more recs. I liked Monsieur Lazhar, and I saw Xavier Dolan's Mommy, but that might be too depressing, too.
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Date: 2015-09-23 02:40 am (UTC)I have not seen La Grande Séduction although it was recommended to me by a co-worker and is on my "maybe" list. I will move it to the "definite" list. Nez Rouge also sounds promising. I'm still kind of depressed, and I want to watch stuff that will make me laugh.
A real life friend saw Mommy, and said I should stay far, far away from it. Monsieur Lazhar doesn't sound funny, but does sound really well done. Can you please PM me at some point and tell me whether it has a happy ending or a sad ending? Doesn't have to be right now. I don't mind good dramas with sad bits, as long the drama ends happily.