Oh gosh. I went through a huge French movies phase when I was, well, studying French. I love Cousin, Cousine and La Nuit de Varennes especially. Cousin, Cousine was remade in English as Cousins, which I never got around to seeing, though I wanted to. La Nuit de Varennes is fascinating, the story of the botched escape of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette to the border, but told from the POV of a carriage of people following them: one of Marie Antoinette's Austrian ladies in waiting, her own maid, and her hairdresser; Tom Paine(!); Casanova(!!), and a few others I can't remember properly (I think there was a wealthy bourgeois and his wife).
A recent Brazilian movie I like quite a lot is The Man Who Copied, about a guy who works as a copy machine operator and spends his free time drawing cartoons and spying on the girl he's too shy to actually ever talk to. He decides to buy something at her shop to have an excuse to talk to her, can't afford anything, realizes he has access to a copy machine, you do the math. It kind of swings wildly from romantic comedy to caper flick, but it's a lot of fun.
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Date: 2007-02-11 11:16 pm (UTC)A recent Brazilian movie I like quite a lot is The Man Who Copied, about a guy who works as a copy machine operator and spends his free time drawing cartoons and spying on the girl he's too shy to actually ever talk to. He decides to buy something at her shop to have an excuse to talk to her, can't afford anything, realizes he has access to a copy machine, you do the math. It kind of swings wildly from romantic comedy to caper flick, but it's a lot of fun.