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Originally posted by Mortimer
Yeah,
a lot of french movies are really great, but the rest of them just plainly suck
The professional is one of those good movies
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In the last 10 years or so, France has started putting out movies that rival, equal, and sometimes exceed Hollywood in terms of technical production values. Other good movies to rent include Delicatessen and Island of Lost Children by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. He then directed Alien 4 for Hollywood (that's the one which, for some reason, never seems to rerun on TV). More French films to check out include The Big Blue, La Femme Nikita (on which the TV series was based, and which is considerably better than the one with Bridget Fonda, Point of No Return, and The Fifth Element by Luc Besson. (Even though The Fifth Element would seem to be a Hollywood movie spoken in English, it is almost entirely a French production.)
If a lot of French films suck, so do most Hollywood movies.