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Day 11 - Your favorite movie from childhood.
There are a couple films that really marked my childhood.
The Mask and Un Indien dans la Ville (I believe the English title is Little Indian, Big City) were probably the biggest hits in the schoolyard. It's very generational. Ask anyone 5 years older or younger than me, most haven't seen Un Indien dans la Ville, but *everyone* my age has, either in the theater or later in VHS. I think I saw it about 7 or 8 times during my elementary school years. It's about a French business man discovering he has a son, who was raised in Amazonia... If the previous comedies I mentioned are the essence of French comedies of the 00's, this one is the essence of the 90's.
But my first, real favorite films, I think, I discovered a few years later, when I was 12-13.
On Guard (Le Bossu, the 1997 version), is the best sword and buckler film ever made. It's also one of those rare adaptations that are better than the original book. I loved that film so much that I knew almost all the lines by heart, and me and my bro even tried to learn the Nevers attack, as shown in the movie.
The other film is Into the West, which remains the first film ever that made me cry. It's an Irish movie which mixes myths and social issues. It was also my first encounter with Gabriel Byrne, and his performance was hearbreakingly stellar.
There are a couple films that really marked my childhood.
The Mask and Un Indien dans la Ville (I believe the English title is Little Indian, Big City) were probably the biggest hits in the schoolyard. It's very generational. Ask anyone 5 years older or younger than me, most haven't seen Un Indien dans la Ville, but *everyone* my age has, either in the theater or later in VHS. I think I saw it about 7 or 8 times during my elementary school years. It's about a French business man discovering he has a son, who was raised in Amazonia... If the previous comedies I mentioned are the essence of French comedies of the 00's, this one is the essence of the 90's.
But my first, real favorite films, I think, I discovered a few years later, when I was 12-13.
On Guard (Le Bossu, the 1997 version), is the best sword and buckler film ever made. It's also one of those rare adaptations that are better than the original book. I loved that film so much that I knew almost all the lines by heart, and me and my bro even tried to learn the Nevers attack, as shown in the movie.
The other film is Into the West, which remains the first film ever that made me cry. It's an Irish movie which mixes myths and social issues. It was also my first encounter with Gabriel Byrne, and his performance was hearbreakingly stellar.
