06-01-2020, 09:10 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-01-2020, 09:24 PM by Drunk Monk.)
L'Iceberg (2005)
We fell in a hole...an abstract French comedy hole. And we regret it horribly. So delighted with last night's Kanopy selection, we thought we'd pursue Fiona & Dom. Big mistake. Gawddamn French. What is it with French film? Just because they have Cannes, they think they can make absurd films and call it 'art'?
Fiona gets locked in the freezer at the fast food restaurant that she manages. Dom, her husband (named Julien) and their two kids don't notice her missing. She becomes obsessed with icebergs and runs away to Rene, a mute sailor, who was also part of the ensemble in the previous film as the neighbor obsessed with his lost sock. There's very little dialog, just lots of awkward scenes. Part of their schtick is silly dance numbers. Very French. Existential, random nudity, abstract scenes solely for the sake of abstraction.
No sword fights. Definitely not DOOM recommended.
The Fairy (2011)
So disappointed we were with L'Iceberg, we thought we'd try The Fairy, which won some recognition at Cannes. I don't know what we were thinking. We should've stopped and gone with something completely different. Dom is a ne'er do well night clerk at a small hotel. Fiona is a fairy, come to grant him three wishes. Philippe Martz (sock dude/Rene Sailor) is a guest smuggling his dog in. There are two dance numbers, one under the sea, involving a giant clam, and another on the rooftop. More random nudity. More abstractivitiy. It sort of makes sense (Fiona is in looney bin) but then it doesn't (Fiona magically becomes pregnant - her belly inflates in minutes - then Jimmy (Martz's real life son) is born to add to the absurdity).
No sword fights. Not DOOM recommended at all either. If you're going to see any Fiona & Dom flicks, Lost in Paris is the only one worth an hour and a half of your life.
Feckin French film.
We fell in a hole...an abstract French comedy hole. And we regret it horribly. So delighted with last night's Kanopy selection, we thought we'd pursue Fiona & Dom. Big mistake. Gawddamn French. What is it with French film? Just because they have Cannes, they think they can make absurd films and call it 'art'?
Fiona gets locked in the freezer at the fast food restaurant that she manages. Dom, her husband (named Julien) and their two kids don't notice her missing. She becomes obsessed with icebergs and runs away to Rene, a mute sailor, who was also part of the ensemble in the previous film as the neighbor obsessed with his lost sock. There's very little dialog, just lots of awkward scenes. Part of their schtick is silly dance numbers. Very French. Existential, random nudity, abstract scenes solely for the sake of abstraction.
No sword fights. Definitely not DOOM recommended.
The Fairy (2011)
So disappointed we were with L'Iceberg, we thought we'd try The Fairy, which won some recognition at Cannes. I don't know what we were thinking. We should've stopped and gone with something completely different. Dom is a ne'er do well night clerk at a small hotel. Fiona is a fairy, come to grant him three wishes. Philippe Martz (sock dude/Rene Sailor) is a guest smuggling his dog in. There are two dance numbers, one under the sea, involving a giant clam, and another on the rooftop. More random nudity. More abstractivitiy. It sort of makes sense (Fiona is in looney bin) but then it doesn't (Fiona magically becomes pregnant - her belly inflates in minutes - then Jimmy (Martz's real life son) is born to add to the absurdity).
No sword fights. Not DOOM recommended at all either. If you're going to see any Fiona & Dom flicks, Lost in Paris is the only one worth an hour and a half of your life.
Feckin French film.
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