"Oui-Oui! Zee film, she is not French enough! Eet eez zee fault of zee Boosh!"
Posted on 11/28/2004 2:13:44 PM PST by paudio
A Paris court has ruled that an acclaimed new film by the director of Amelie is not French enough to vie for French prizes. Jean-Pierre Jeunet's A Very Long Engagement, a French story filmed in French, has drawn rave reviews.
But a court judged it was too American to compete in French film festivals, including Cannes.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
It doesn't smell like a damp laundry hamper on a hot day in August.
It's really about money, the competitors dont want French subsidy money going to this project. Understandable, but not good for the nation.
"Oui-Oui! Zee film, she is not French enough! Eet eez zee fault of zee Boosh!"
Maybe they need to add a surrender scene.
French bigotry.
LOL...!!!
Q: What does a French romance and a French alliance have in common?
A: Both are brief, sordid, and completely without meaning.
Q: Why are French streets lined with trees?
A: So invaders can march in the shade.
Q: Did you hear that fireworks were banned at Euro-Disney?
A: Every time they fired them off, the French military surrendered.
"... pointed out that director Oliver Stone's Alexander the Great received funding from the French government despite not being filmed in France or in French."
"Oliver Stone's movie Alexander is French - his mother is French and he did the post-production in Paris so it's French, no problem. And this one is not French, can you believe it?"
NOT FRENCH ENOUGH? MORE LIKE, NOT ANTI-AMERICAN ENOUGH!
"Oliver Stone's movie Alexander is French - his mother is French and he did the post-production in Paris so it's French, no problem. And this one is not French, can you believe it?" said Jeunet.
Great.."Longest Day" aside...(snicker!)
What?????? Not French enough? It does not have surrendering?
Post 8, ROTFLMAO!!
So apparently Fahrenheit 9/11 was deemed French enough to compete at Cannes. No shock there, but now they tacitly admit it.
Not enough body hair on the women. Too much body hair on the men.
They should have had a snail sucking scene.
But what have they done for us lately?
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