More FRENCH FILM reviews
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This is what the BBC had to say in their Dinard Wrap up:
Director Jackie Oudney and star Hugh Bonneville on the set of French Film
The most unashamedly enjoyable film of the festival was Jackie Oudney’s French Film. A romantic comedy that managed to be both romantic and comic (no mean feat, as anyone who has ever seen a film starring Kate Hudson will confirm), Oudney’s debut was sincere, warm, believable, and laugh-out-loud funny. Hugh Bonneville and Anne-Marie Duff star, although Eric Cantona steals the show as a French film director offering his own distinctly French take on love let’s call it Gallic symbolism. Despite watching a film which offered gentle mockery of their nation throughout, the positive audience reaction recalled a quote by Barry Humphries (aka Dame Edna Everage): “Never be afraid to laugh at yourself. After all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century”.
November 9th, 2008 at 00:04
That’s awesome! But why does the link go back to a NYT article about Al Gore’s purpose driven internet?
November 9th, 2008 at 17:26
Here’s the correct link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/filmnetwork/A41998242
November 11th, 2008 at 18:01
whoops. Apologies for mis-link. Here is another one from EMPIRE:
http://www.empireonline.com/features/damonwise/Post.asp?id=283