belanger-9 Reviews

French Girl (2024)

No rating, only commentary on translation

[5 April 2024]

For the English original version, Canadian French characters keep their own voices and speak Québécois - the dialect of French speaking people in Québec and a large part of French Canadian outside Québec. Nice.

Ridiculously, for the French version, there are no Canadian translation, only a translation from France. Then Québécois characters are dubbed in Paris French - which they proudly named True French - instead of keeping the Canadian French voices. So if you are a Québécois and you don't want to feel that the New York guy is visiting Paris, listen to the original soundtrack and put French subtitles to understand the English characters.

Rocketman (I) (2019)

Taron, Elton and Bernie - 3 great stars

[10/10 · 29 June 2019]

It's been a week I saw this film and it haunts me. I still have these marvelous songs in my head and I remember the poetic images that the filmmaker put on these hits.

It maybe not the reality, some had proved that it's Elton's point of view on his father and other cruel characters around him, but the lyrics of Bernie were prophetic. They have been written in the first year of his carreer and they are accurate about what happen years after.

I don't want to compare with Bohemian Rhapsody. They are 2 different films and 2 different styles. I like both for the same reason, the beautiful music. But I also like them for different reasons: BR is a biopic with an actor who was like the original Freddie and he deserves an Oscar for this interpretation, RM is a musical with an actor who play a character inspired by Elton John and he was great for that too.

Taron Egerton is a very good actor and I know that he will be on the AAA list for a long time.

Just wait to see the movie again on my home cinema big screen with volume high!!

C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005)

Straight to the heart, not straight to the bone

[10/10 · 14 August 2005]

It's the very first time for a quebecois film since Le déclin de l'empire américain that I feel so much about a movie. Les invasions barbares was not for me as emotionally involving as this one.

Seraphin, Le survenant and the other tragico-historical film produced here are good. But not as near to us as this one is.

I'm 39. I was born in 1966. The main character was born in 1960.

We are of the same generation. From the same society with the same values (church, uncles/aunts, homophobic schools, etc.) Maybe because the story of the main character has sometime similar to my own live, the bisexual/homosexual questioning/finding.

Yesterday I saw Kinsey and these two films connected perfectly in my mind. Puritan society against real life. The questions of these 2 films are similar: Should I have to be like all the other person of my gender around me? Or do I have the right to be different, to be myself, not being classified as straight, gay or else? The guy is himself, not his father, not one of his brother. He doesn't have to be put in a case/cage as gay, bisexual or straight.

He is Zac, he is able to love other human beings and no one should have to tell him that it is right or wrong.

I'm still under the feeling of the movie. I return to my Kleenex to cry a bit.