#french-belgian movies

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Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper - Daisy Town (1971)

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...images from the lost continent of cult films, b-movies and celluloid dreamscapes

Bandes dessinées: A selection of French and Belgian comicbook adaptations

Tintin and the Golden Fleece (1961) Lucky Luke (1991) Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar (1999) Michel Vaillant (2003) Blueberry (2004) Largo Winch (2008) The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010) Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

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JE, TU, IL, ELLE (1974) dir. Chantal Akerman For more than a month, eating only powered sugar, Julie tries to deal with a breakup: she paints her room twice, removes the furniture, writes and rewrites a letter to her lover, clarifying all she had said. Once her sugar is gone, she leaves self-imposed isolation to embark on a road trip that leads to lonely love affairs with a male truck driver and the former girlfriend who started it all. (link in title)

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Le SAMOURAI (1967) - ALAIN DELON MOVIE POSTERS (Part 20/20)

We conclude this short retrospective of ALAIN DELON's filmed with his masterpiece Le samourai, his first movie out of 3 directed by Jean-Pierre Melville (see parts 11 and 16).

Above are the ALL original movie posters from Japan as well as from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and the US (click on each image for details)

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville Actors: Alain Delon, Nathalie Delon, Francois Perier

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From the East, Chantal Akerman

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Infiniti

France, 2022

The strange death of Anthony Kurz

There is panic on Earth when suddenly there is complete silence. The ISS space station is no longer communicating. All that is known is that there had been a collision with a space transporter shortly beforehand. Otherwise, the ground crew has no further information.

The only clue to the status of the ISS crew is found in the most bizarre form in Kazakhstan. There, Kazakh policeman Isaak (Daniyar Alshinov) stumbles across what is probably the strangest corpse he has ever seen: The dead man's head is missing, but he appears to be completely covered in a layer of wax. And the strangest thing is that this man, identified as Anthony Kurz, was actually supposed to be on the ISS.

Kurz's colleague, astronaut Anna Zarathi (Céline Sallette), can’t believe any of this. She was close to Kurz and insists that the body cannot be his. According to her, Kurz and his team should still be alive. And it is her job to help them. But their superiors are anything but prepared to launch a rescue mission.

To get to the bottom of the strange death and the whereabouts of the ISS crew, Anna and Isaak team up to investigate themselves. As they do so, the questions they have to ask themselves become increasingly unreal. Finally, one of them is posed in all its absurdity and needs to be answered: What if the dead man is actually Anthony Kurz - but who is also still in space and alive?

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The Lost Boys (2023)

dir. by Zeno Graton

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The smurfs and the magic flute (1976)

Wow what a misleading title. A salesman sells a flute to Peewit, the court jester but the flute magically forces anyone who hears it to dance. Eventually the flute is stolen by a bad guy who uses it to steal all the money. So Peewit and his friend Johan must take it back. They find a wizard to teleport them to the world of smurfs so they could get their help.

So yeah the smurfs don't appear until half way through the movie and their point in the movie is really contrived. Why couldn't Johan and Peewit just plug their ears that would have been so much easier. I'm not really a fan of the smurfs so I'm not too upset of their absence but this is just a pure marketing ploy.

The amount of padding in this is insane, it gets to the point where Johan and Peewit and just sitting there bored waiting for the smurfs to do something. The songs in this are pretty grating as well since the characters are meant to be bad singers. Having these sorts of jokes completely fall flat because they actually subject the audience to the bad singing.

I wouldn't watch this movie even if you're a smurf fan you'd probably hate it.

The list

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i can understand why producers would choose to give tintin a ‘standard english’ accent (american for the animated series, british for the movie) but it’s such a missed opportunity to not give him a french belgian one tbh . honestly it’d be even cooler to have said belgian accent influenced by other accents as he travels . i can hear that brussels accent tinted by a SBE one it is literally in my mind as i write this

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On March 11, 2020 Daughters of Darkness was re-released in France.

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SATURN BOWLING (2022) Reviews of dark, serial killer noir thriller - trailer and Sept 29th release

Saturn Bowling is a 2022 French-Belgian dark serial killer noir thriller about a series of murders that ensue around a bowling alley. Directed by Patricia Mazuy from a screenplay co-written with Yves Thomas. The movie stars Arieh Worthalter, Achille Reggiani, Y-Lan Lucas, Leïla Muse, Frédéric van den Driessche, Olivier Faliez, Elisa Hartel, Emmanuel Matte, Nicolas Lepy, Frédérique Renda, Denis…

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Asterix the Gaul (1967)

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A Belgian Poster in Dutch of Carole Lombard's "No More Orchids" (1932)

new-to-me #628 - No More Orchids

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LES RENDEZ-VOUS D'ANNA (1978) dir. Chantal Akerman Anna, a detached and diffident director, arrives in Germany to show her latest film; she checks into a hotel, invites a stranger to her bed, and abruptly tells him to leave. He asks her to a birthday lunch with his mother and daughter; she goes. Afterward, in Cologne, she meets an old friend, a Polish Jew and war refugee. In Brussels, she spends the night at a hotel with her mother, whom she rarely sees. On the train, a stranger tells his story. Last, it's home to Paris, where her lover Daniel picks her up and they go to a hotel. Throughout, people make personal revelations to her, and Anna listens with little affect. Although it was 30 years ago, the war seems ever present. (link in title)

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MY NAME IS NOBODY / A GENIUS TWO FRIENDS AND A DUPE (1973-1975) - SPAGHETTI & OTHER RECIPES' WESTERNS (Part 2/10)

While the Spaghetti Western genre is often associated with violence and dark heroes, its popularity spawned a sub genre, i.e. the Comedy Westerns led by Terence Hill with the Trinity series (see Part 10) and culminating with the Sergio Leone produced My Name Is Nobody in 1973 followed by its lesser sequel A Genius Two Friends And A Dupe in 1975.

Above are posters from Belgium, France, Italy, Japan, the US and ex-Yugosalvia (click on each image for details).

Director: Tonino Valerii, Damiano Damiani Actors: Terence Hill, Henry Fonda, Robert Charlebois, Patrick McGoohan, Klaus Kinski, Miou-Miou

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Twisted wonderland nationality headcanons

BTW NONE OF THIS IS CANON I DON'T THINK AND IT'S ALL MY OPINION FEEL FREE TO AGREE OR DISAGREE JUST DON'T HATE ON ME 💔💔💔💔💔

Heartslabyul:

Riddle rosehearts: British

Trey clover: British

Cater diamond: American

Deuce spade: British

Ace trappola: British

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Savanaclaw:

Leona kingscholar: Kenyan

Ruggie bucchi: Kenyan

Jack howl: American

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Octavinelle:

Azul ashengrotto: Danish

Jade leech: Danish

Floyd Leech: Danish

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Scarabia:

Kalim Al asim: Moroccan

Jamil viper: Moroccan

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Pomfiore:

Vil Schonenheit: German

Rook hunt: Ivory coast

Epel felmier: Sámi / Finnish

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Ignihyde:

Idia shroud: Greek

Ortho shroud: Greek

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Diasomnia:

Malleus Draconia: French

Lilia vanrouge: French

Silver: French

Sebek zigvolt: French

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Staff:

Crewel: British

Trein: French

Vargas: Italian

Crowley: French

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other characters:

Neige: Belgian / French

Chenya: British

Rollo: French

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Now for brief explanations:

I hc Most of heartslabyul as British because of Alice in wonderland (Set in Britain) and most of the characters are from the Queendom of roses. I Hc Cater as American because it just fits tbh.

I hc Leona and Ruggie from Kenya because that (allegedly) where the lion king is set in. I hc Jack as american because it fits (x2)

I hc all of octavinelle as Danish because of the little mermaid statue in Copenhagen and the little mermaid movie itself is set in Denmark.

i hc Scarabia as Moroccan because Aladdin is set in a Arabian country (Not said which one specifically) but i chose Morocco because it just felt like it fit.

I hc Vil as German because 1( The evil queen is German 2( Schonenheit is a German name. I hc Rook from ivory Coast because he's canonically from sunset Savanna but I wanted to choose a African country that speaks French as the main language so I picked that. I Hc Epel as Sámi, because I saw a post about how his hometown models a lot after Sámi culture, I hc that he is Sámi from Finland.

I feel like ignihyde is very self explanatory, Idia is based off Hades (Greek god of the underworld) and the Isle of woe resembles Greece

I hc Diasomnia is French only because Sleeping beauty takes place in france.

I hc Neige as Belgian mostly because He's supposed to be snow White (German princess) but his name is in French, And Belgiums main three languages are German, French and dutch.

I hc Crewel as British because he's from the Queendom of roses

I hc Trein as French because it feels right idk

I hc Vargas as Italian because Vargas is a Italian last name (i think)

I hc Crowley as French because im pretty sure he's a fae and probably from briar valley

The others are pretty explanatory I think...?