Review the last foreign film you watched

[MikeyRix]

"The Girl who Played With Fire". Slow paced, largely boring in places, did not do justice to the book. Rapace was still fantastic in it, though. 5/10

[Papertwins]

Micmacs (2009) Yet another success of French Director Jean Pierre Jeunet.

A fine watch. Humorous, clever, and blessed with JPJ's infamous use of colour that never fails to astound.

Not quite Amelie, but a brilliant insight into the imagination of one of my favourite Directors.

8/10.

[irish]

This is a korean movie. which has to be an unofficial remake of
The french connection. The lead cop behaves like a thug, and the guy he's hunting is a cool as fcuck.
Well okay, cops in korean movies often behave like thugs.
see memories of murder, the chaser.
But the cop also wears a great hat.
It;s a very good movie

[irish]

Originally Posted by gordonmclean

I Saw the Devil: a chilling, relentlessly bleak film about a truly warped, sick in the head psychopath pulled into a cat-and-mouse game by the husband of one of his victims. A brilliant film, but it'll kill any joy in your heart.

very good film

[gordonmclean]

Paranormal Activity: Tokyo Nights.

Awful. A complete waste of time with only one decent scare. I thought they'd try an interesting mix of Eastern and Western horror. Instead they opted for a lame remix of PA 1 and 2. Avoid!

[irish]

The story is fiction, the character is real. he thought Bruce Lee.
Excellent performances From Donnie Yen, and Hiroyuki Ikeuchi,
The fight scenes are terrific.
8/10 is my imdb rating

[Kiba.]

Lilya 4-Ever (2002)

Well acted and directed film about a vulnerable 16 year old girl, abandoned by her mother or guardian, struggling to survive on the streets of Estonia and later in Sweden. Her only friend is a young boy in a similar position.
An affecting film but, dear god, it is relentlessly harrowing. By the end Lilya has been victimised by so many people, it leaves you feeling disgusted with mankind and men in particular. Good film but potentially depressing.

http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0300140/

[jaykays hat]

The Orphange

A blind buy on blu-ray for the mere sum of £3.50. Watched it last night and it was well worth buying.

[bmwery]

Not sure what the title was (if anyone could tell me that would be great).

Anyway a lawer and his family hire a young nanny who he goes on to have an affair with. She then goes psycho on him, he hits here in the head with a shovel and tries to hide her in a hole in a wall. She later turns up and sues him and wins.

It turns out that her family was destroyed by a lawsuit which he won and she had been planning to get revenge on him by destoying his family, but that didn't work, so she destroyed him in court.

I saw it about 10 years ago on BBC2 forgot to find out what it was called and have been looking for it ever since.

Other good foreign films; The black book, A beautiful life, Princess Monike

[alexr]

Last foreign language film I saw was Attack The Block. Spent the entire film bemused by the current 'youth vocabulary' and barely understood a word...

As for a real foreign language film? I guess my last one was Memoirs of a Geisha. I actually liked it, considering my wife forced me to watch it! Really liked House of Flying Daggers too!

Anybody here actually watch Potiche? (Y'know, the god-awful Gerard Depardeiu movie from the Orange adverts)