I also do not like Its a Wonderful Life. But I do like Casablanca. I’ve been there, I speak French, and Bogart was somehow pretty hot.
All politics aside, French is a very beautiful, elegant language to many of us who are not at all fluent.
It even sounds attractive to the ear when the speaker is angry. Of course, if I had to actually learn what was being said by some angry Frenchman, I would probably get over that particular impression very quickly.
Some of the derivative dialects are also intriguing; such as Haitian Creole or Quebecois, the french spoken in Quebec, Montreal. I just wish the French would fight a little bit harder to preserve their country from The Invaders. Oh well, maybe Mademoiselle LePen will win in a few months.