Kevin on L’Auberge Espagnole, Babel

My brother discusses his complicated feelings about the French and the film “L’Auberge Espagnole” [Pretentious Musings] Oh, and he also reviews “Babel.

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  1. Gravatar michael your flag
    Posted April 3, 2007 at 4:48 pm | Permalink

    Your brother has complicated feelings about Spanish eggplants? :)

  2. Gravatar SomeguyinKorea your flag
    Posted April 3, 2007 at 9:48 pm | Permalink

    What? No jokes about the French army? I thought movie reviewers hated those?

    Complicate relationship with the French? Obviously, he has no relationship with the French, otherwise he’s understand the meaning of the word ‘cliché’. The only thing missing in his first paragraph are jokes about the French army, body odor, and Frenchwomen’s hairy armpits.

  3. Gravatar SomeguyinKorea your flag
    Posted April 3, 2007 at 9:50 pm | Permalink

    Delete this: “What? No jokes about the French army? I thought movie reviewers hated those?”

    Cut and paste to make corrections and forgot to delete.

  4. Posted April 4, 2007 at 3:32 am | Permalink

    ten percent employment, resistant to market influence, denial of colonialism, le pen’s runoff and the national front are all cultural cliches of france?

    bizarre.

  5. Gravatar SomeguyinKorea your flag
    Posted April 5, 2007 at 12:54 am | Permalink

    Ten percent employment? Are you sure?

    You confuse a vote for Jean Marie Le Pen as a vote in support for his policies. If it wasn’t for the French electors’ traditional mistrust of big political parties and their penchant for protest votes, Le Pen would have had a very short political career (apparently, its now on its last leg).

    Resistant to market influence? Funny, I thought France was a member of the European Union.

    Denial of colonialism? You must be joking. I’d say it’s actually celebrated.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francophonie

    And you’re telling me that the French make good movies? That’s certainly a cliche.

    I’ve seen hundreds of French movies, if not thousands. Most of them aren’t gems. To put it in terms you’ll understand: watch Jerry Lewis’s two French movies back to back.

    Again, bashing the French has been done before. It’s a cliche. It’s lost its comedic appeal.

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