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Either travel or read, body and soul always have to have one on the road.
Whether you are on your way to travel or stay at home to recuperate, you can start a journey of French literature.
If the thick and obscure passages make you prohibitive, it doesn't matter, today Snail Jun recommends you a variety of flavors of movies based on French novels, so that you can appreciate another style of French literature in the movie.
Button Wars la guerre des boutons
Duration: 109 minutes
The children of longeverne and verans villages fight every year at the beginning of school, but this year, the longeverne village's children, The King Labrac, has come up with a new way to win: the winning children can use the buttons or straps of the loser as a trophy, so that the loser will definitely be punished by his parents when he comes home in tattered clothes. This is a deadly battle for children, and gradually, this game becomes a children's intrigue...
Adapted from a novel by French writer Louis Pergaud, the film underwent four screen adaptations: in 1936, the first remake was played by charles Aznaf, a 12-year-old actor who would later become popular in France.
The book has been familiar to the world since it was adapted into a film of the same name by Yves Robert in 1961.
The 1994 remake in Ireland was neither acclaimed nor sold well. It is worth mentioning that Yves Robert's film is not the first attempt at adaptation. The most recent remake was in 2011.
Little Nicholas series
le petit nicolas "Little Naughty Nicholas"
Duration: 92 minutes
Little Naughty Nicolas is a work of youth literature by the French writer René Goscinny (une œuvre de littérature pour la jeunesse) from 1956 to 1965, later illustrated by Jean-jacques sempé.
The story follows the school and family life of nikolai and his friends, showing adults what children see as education, les disputes familiales, neighborhood relations, etc. (les rapports entre voisins).
les vacances du petit nicolas "Little Nicholas' Holiday"
Duration: 97 minutes
This film is the sequel to "Little Naughty Nicholas", also known as "Naughty Nicolas 2" or "Paris Naughty Gang 2", in this film Nikolai goes on vacation with his parents and grandfather, and director Lauren Terrad pays tribute to the French silent film comedy master Jacques Tati ("The Holiday of Mr. Hulot").
Little Nicholas has always been a favorite comic book character in the French, so it is not difficult to imagine that when this work was adapted into a movie, it became the highest-grossing film in France that year. The Belgian Tintin, the Little Prince and Little Nicholas are known as the most famous literary figures of the French Community for their youth.
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The elegance of the hedgehog l'élégance du hérisson
Duration: 100 minutes
Adapted from the novel of the same name by French writer Myolier Barbary, "The Grace of the Hedgehog" tells the story of the story between Baroma, a genius philosophical girl who plans to commit suicide, Herni, a female concierge with a vulgar appearance but a rich heart, and the Japanese gentleman Ozu Gero. Through The film adaptation shows us the normal state of life in the standard world through The perspective of Baroma, which triggers various philosophical thinking of the audience.
From the details in the film and some of the director's interviews, we can clearly feel the director's novel adaptation ideas: turn all the text descriptions into visual elements - the genius girl in the original book observes and thinks in the way of writing a diary, the film is converted into visual graffiti and video, and the director has carefully recreated the girl's living environment, especially her room, which also explains the girl's personality and background very well.
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Based on the novel of the same name by French writer Frederick Berger Bergerdéric Beigbeder, it tells the story of Octave, creative director of a big-name advertising agency, who once lived a degenerate life of a sound dog and horse on the pretext of collecting material.
It wasn't until he met a girl named Sofia that he grew tired of the materialistic circle of fashion celebrities and decided to write a vicious book attacking the advertising industry as a farewell work.
The film is full of angry expressions of the advertising industry and consumer society, and is filmed by an angry young director who hates commercial advertising. The film is also full of psychedelic, cool looks and feels to map the advertising industry. At the end of the 20 minutes of the plot came a big reversal, but also a big change in the tone of the previous movie.
The male protagonist is also a French national treasure actor, Oscar-winning film emperor Jean dujardin, the film uses an exaggerated performance method, fascinating.
Literary classics
Madame Bovary
Duration: 143 minutes
Madame Bovary is a novel by the French writer Flaubert Flaubert. It tells the story of Emma, who came from a peasant family but was educated in an aristocratic family, because she did not look up to her husband Bovary, who was a township doctor, and twice stole love in order to seek the love of her dreams, but instead became in debt, and finally committed suicide by poison when she was desperate.
Madame Bovary has been adapted many times, the most recent of which was an attempt to adapt it into an erotic version, but these adaptations were far less successful than the '91 version starring Isabelle Huppel, who portrayed beautiful women in the torment of spiritual flesh to the extreme.
Isabelle Huppel, who plays the 91st version of Madame Bovary, is the heroine of last year's hit French film "Elle", and her acting career has starred in many classic films such as "Piano Teacher" and "Bameitu", and has won the Cannes Award and César Award for Best Actress many times. Snail Jun will also continue to introduce this post-film level actor to you in the future push.
红与黑 red and black
Duration: 207 minutes
"The Red and the Black" is a masterpiece by the French writer Stendhal, which tells the story of the protagonist Julien Julien, who was a tutor in the mayor's house because of the exposure of his private affair with the mayor's wife, fled the mayor's house and entered the seminary.
The dean of the seminary recommended that Jullien go to Paris to serve as a private secretary to the Marquis de Lamor, a stalwart of the extreme royalist party, but because Jullien hooked up with the marquis's daughter. In the end, the mayor's wife's whistle-blowing letter deprived him of the opportunity to soar, and Yu Lian shot the mayor's wife in a rage and went to the guillotine.
There are many remakes of this classic French literary work, and there are currently French, English and Russian versions.
The most classic version is the 1997 Red and The Black by French director Jean-daniel Verhaeghe. The rhythm of the whole film is soothing and not procrastinating, and the plot processing is delicate and concise; the first half of the shooting method uses a beautiful long shot to describe the protagonist's leisurely stability in the countryside; the second half uses fast-paced short shots to portray the interests of the male protagonist. It is a classic movie worth appreciating.
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